Re: [Fsfe-uk] RFC: Newsletter email frequency

[James Heald]

MJ Ray wrote:

> I have noticed that our French chums in APRIL get an email every month 
> telling them what APRIL projects are active, what mailing lists exist 
> and similar information. The main AFFS email newsletter is less 
> frequent, because it contains articles and needs much work from the 
> Secretary to prepare it for sending.
>
> Would members reading this like a basic information announcement email 
> in months without newsletters, or would that be considered too noisy? 
> Reply on- or off-list and I will try to summarise later.


If there's enough material to fill it (and somebody can find enough time 
to put it all together), I would have thought a once a month regular 
bulletin on the pattern of, say, EDRI-gram:

http://www.edri.org/cgi-bin/index?id=000100000149

can be enormously useful in building "mindshare".


It can also be very useful for the organisation as a regular focus.


FWIW in the physical world the Lib Dems find that if they can achieve a 
steady once-a-month delivery of their "Focus" local newsletter, year in 
year out, (ie instead of a landslide of paper only immediately before an 
election), this is surprisingly well appreciated, and does make a very 
direct difference in getting local residents to feel they identify with 
the party...

(Assuming that month that it isn't proposing to open a plague pit next 
to their houses).