Dear Newsletter Readers,
Welcome to another edition of our newsletter and I hope it finds you in good overall health in both mind and body. In this week’s edition, we have as usual collected together for you all what we feel are a selection of various interesting news articles that cover a fairly broad range of topics. We hope that you click some of the links open and check them out. As for my contribution this week, I thought I would put together a short poem based on our newsletter as we are thinking about sending it out as a monthly rather than a weekly publication. Until next time, please enjoy the weekend ahead.
Feedback makes things better
Welcome to another edition of our weekly newsletter.
With each passing edition I question whether it’s getting worse or better.
It’s been up and running since 2009.
13 years as a weekly publication is, if I may say so, a fairly impressive amount of time.
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Over this period very little in the way of feedback has been placed before our eyes and ears.
The only comments we’ve received have been from colleagues and peers.
Which of course are valuable in themselves as some feedback is better than nothing at all.
The audience that we send out to seem happy to catch but not throw back the ball.
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Out of over 300 recipients of our newsletter the number that click open the links amounts to seven or less.
How often we send out our newsletter is something that we carefully need to address.
We’ve made various attempts to get our receivers to tell us what they like and dislike about our newsletter.
Soliciting receiver feedback is a necessary part of making the no-so-good bits better.
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The questionnaires we’ve sent out thus far have yielded no replies.
Perhaps it’s time to bid our weekly newsletter a firm goodbye.
And send out a monthly edition instead in the hope that less frequency will result in more articles being read.
Here’s hoping that this poem will provoke some reader feedback as this newsletter is hungry and is in need of being fed.
A poem by Stephen Austwick