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Kvetching about the MPN newsletter
May. 1st, 2007 01:00 pmI expect organizations to have well presented, well edited and thoughtful newsletters. I do. This makes me jaded and naive, at the same time. If you're going to harass your membership for articles, by all means edit them and present them as professionally as the organization can manage. All this, btw, is foremost in my mind because I received an issue of the Military Pagan Network's Beltaine Newsletter in my inbox today.
Let the snarking begin:
1. You really don't want me to send censors to the Front. No, you don't. You want censers. Trust me on this.
2. There's not a single useful article for a MPN leader or a deployed service member. Not a single one.
3. A crossword puzzle was a nice touch - did it have to take up half a page?
4. That's a lot of artwork for a 4 page newsletter. Color artwork - cannot imagine how messy that must look printed out on a non-color printer then photocopied a dozen times. Because that's the norm for most chaplain offices and deployed commands. Trust me on this, I use to deploy those printers.
5. Punctuation. Use some. Often.
The whole thing is a fluffy mess.
*bang head repeatedly on lapdesk*
Let the snarking begin:
1. You really don't want me to send censors to the Front. No, you don't. You want censers. Trust me on this.
2. There's not a single useful article for a MPN leader or a deployed service member. Not a single one.
3. A crossword puzzle was a nice touch - did it have to take up half a page?
4. That's a lot of artwork for a 4 page newsletter. Color artwork - cannot imagine how messy that must look printed out on a non-color printer then photocopied a dozen times. Because that's the norm for most chaplain offices and deployed commands. Trust me on this, I use to deploy those printers.
5. Punctuation. Use some. Often.
The whole thing is a fluffy mess.
*bang head repeatedly on lapdesk*
