This is for discussion about the CFC news email magazine.
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This is for discussion about the CFC news email magazine.
I am very impressed with the amount of work John puts into the magazine. Keep up the good work John.
I am also very impressed with the quality of the product that John presents us with. I would like to see some double issues or splitting issues into more manageable sizes to catch up on the backlog and also perhaps more timely coverage of major events. We might also look at whether we should look at alternate ways of presenting the same great content. Increasingly facebook is a way that we disseminate news and photos. John has been a big part of that effort along with Victoria Doknjas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Garvin Nunes
I've always been a huge fan of The Week in Chess format and would greatly prefer something that like to Facebook which is more ephemeral
I agree with the basic idea of doing an easier or smaller magazine until the issues are caught up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir Drkulec
John's work is great, but we need to work out an agreement with him that we can have more timely information being sent to our members.
I agree deeply with Lyle on this one. Some people loathe Facebook LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Lyle Craver
I also agree perhaps with smaller issues on quicker turnaround times.
As an example you might check out the BC bulletin which has been going for 12+ years and is at 300+ issues http://chess.bc.ca/bcbulletin.shtml
To be sure much of the time it's been a personal labor of love for Stephen Wright (and anyone who knows the bulletin knows Wright's interest in chess history) but that many years is not to be sneezed at.
Facebook is one way to reach lots of people quickly and it does make it easy to upload pictures. It can be a big time waster too. We do have to find new ways to reach more people. If Larry Bevand follows through on on his intention to sell chesstalk it will likely no longer be the way to disseminate chess information in Canada.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aris Marghetis
Personally, I feel that the current issues should not be more than 3 months late otherwise, players/readers will have lost the interest to read much of it. As in any magazines in the stand, do we buy outdated magazines ?
I agree that the contents are very good but somehow it loses it's value if it is one year late.
I for one do not intend to join Facebook simply to get the CFC Magazine. If anything i want to come to the CFC website to access CFC content. Do not force someone to join something to gain access to a service he is already paying for.
Having said that these days it appears that organization need to have a Facebook presence. Perhaps this is where our online newsfeed belongs?
You need to have a facebook account to access the hundreds or perhaps thousands of photos we have posted there recently. There is no intention of posting the magazine there. You might post the content of the magazine on a blog which would probably be hosted on our website.Quote:
Originally Posted by Garland Best
Absolutely agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gary Hua
Great work by John Upper -- far too LATE.
In the "information age" where everything is just a click away -- the CFC is stuck a year behind in a permanent "backlog". Time to press the "RESET" button.
While I am a Facebook user I very much support Garland's point of view. I have a couple of major vendors who want me to access a "confidential e-mail service" to access my monthly invoice from them. Given their files come in a executable compressed format I refuse but since I regularly go onto their website to retrieve my bill that way and thereby keep payments up to date they've never bothered me.
Had there not been this method I would be having a conversation with my sales rep essentially making Garland's points but on steroids - as in we don't have the right to insist people make use of an outside server not controlled by ourselves. But I would be much less polite in making that point! LC
PS - I would greatly prefer the format of something like The Week in Chess / The BC Bulletin (basically the same format) to what we presently have.
Is there going to be any decision on this issue ? CFC E-magazine ?
My preference would be a single printed "yearbook issue" which would be a combination of welcome wagon, club listings, perhaps our top player listings and marquee articles/highlights of the year. This would be free to all members and perhaps mailed out to any new members who join during the following year. The current arrangement would be scaled back to a beefed up news feed in order to keep the budget roughly the same.
I don't believe that the perceived value of our e-zine matches the money invested. I wonder how many members even bother to read it. I know I do not. A single hard copy per year would register with the members IMO.
I agree with Hal on this issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hal Bond