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Rattled cages on newsletter articles. Got responses from all four "too busy (moving)", "too busy (work)", "forgot and now on vacation", "ISP is down (email on phone OK; sending attachments not)". So, OK, no articles from those four. Lay out what I have. Point out to managing editor that I have no information on the September gathering. She has whoever is doing it send me a copy of the Flyer. Which, um, erk, wow is that bad. And this got sent out?!?
Theoretically, the person doing the flyer took Communication classes at Tech from the same prof I did, but you couldn't tell from the flyer. The layout is OK - not what I'd do, but OK. The text, on the other hand. oy. Poorly written (probably lifted from a website somewhere, but really needed some editing for missing prepositions/spaces/words), painful misuse of the semi-colon (pro tip, a semi-colon is not to be used instead of a comma - that does not make you look smart), missing information (who are these people and why should we be interested in what they have to say?), and a sentence that little sense made. So I redid the flyer. Have a question out to people "Are you really going to physically mail people a thing before the gathering? If so, you need to move up the registration deadline, because a week isn't enough time to get things in the mail. If email, you need to say *that*. email =/= mail. Especially when many registrants don't have email or don't check it regularly."
I'm going to go take my frustrations out on some weeds.
Theoretically, the person doing the flyer took Communication classes at Tech from the same prof I did, but you couldn't tell from the flyer. The layout is OK - not what I'd do, but OK. The text, on the other hand. oy. Poorly written (probably lifted from a website somewhere, but really needed some editing for missing prepositions/spaces/words), painful misuse of the semi-colon (pro tip, a semi-colon is not to be used instead of a comma - that does not make you look smart), missing information (who are these people and why should we be interested in what they have to say?), and a sentence that little sense made. So I redid the flyer. Have a question out to people "Are you really going to physically mail people a thing before the gathering? If so, you need to move up the registration deadline, because a week isn't enough time to get things in the mail. If email, you need to say *that*. email =/= mail. Especially when many registrants don't have email or don't check it regularly."
I'm going to go take my frustrations out on some weeds.
