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Post by SimonAllen on Mar 24, 2013 20:07:40 GMT 1
For those of you that attended the AGM you will know that Aerodyne is no more. Simon has been the main force and main contributor to our newsletter for a very long time. When the cry went up for articles and items often there was little response. This is not to direct blame in any direction. Certainly the meeting today voted for its demise. It may be that newsletters are not the modern way of doing things. We have, as one contributor commented, Social Media and more importantly we have this forum and perhaps these means of communication have superseded it. Newsletters always faced the problem of their lack of immediacy and perhaps with rapid email and this forum we will not need it. However, if you think otherwise then do say. This is not the only Society where there is a struggle to get a newsletter out and perhaps it is a trend that will continue.
In the meantime a very big thank you to Simon for slogging on for so long. I must say I enjoyed it and always read it when it came out. Any newsletter though needs someone to run it and act as editor and several regular contributors. It cannot rest with one person.
So over to you and have your say.
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Post by SimonAllen on Mar 24, 2013 20:15:12 GMT 1
Someone asked if they could receive an email notification if something new appeared here. The answer is Yes. Log in, Go to your profile and select notifications. Choose the email tab and you will be notified when something new appears or there is a change.
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Post by charlotte on Mar 27, 2013 21:01:06 GMT 1
It’s a shame it had to go, as it was clear that everyone enjoyed reading it, but the fact is that people were never willing to sit down and write an article.
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Post by chairman on Mar 28, 2013 5:10:54 GMT 1
I am sad to see it go but for the past 5-6 year at each AGM I have been saying if I do not get material to print I can not keep it going each year the membership all said they wanted to keep it going and would write for Aerodyne.
An e-mail I got this week asking why I chose to stop Aerodyne was way out of the line 1st off I did not choose to stop Aerodyne I just chose not to edit, write and design it any more anyone could take up the post of editor, designer and keep it going, and secondly it is not dead if anyone want to take it up there are welcome to do so.
There will be at least one more issue going out to our members and if over the next few months the membership find someone willing to take on the editorship and collation of material then it will be kept going
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Post by greenman on Mar 28, 2013 14:09:11 GMT 1
I voted for Aerodyne to cease as I dont see why our Chairman should be forced to put in hours of time and effort every few months when very little comes back from the members to put into it. I have written some articles over the years for Aerodyne, but I find it hard to put the events of a festival our outing into words. I wrote an article last year about Fuerte 2011, but when it came to writing about Fuerte 2012 the article looked very much like the previous years. Little point saying the same thing twice. I am off to a festival shortly that has not been featured in Aerodyne, I would have probably written an article based on my experience. I shall still write the article but I will post it here on the forum. This forum is very under used, perhaps people writing more and placing it directly here will increase the members use of it. If enough people write stuff and put it up on this forum then just maybe we could colate it every few months and issue it as an Aerodyne special. But as with the demise of Aerodyne, if nobody writes anything then nothing can be published.
Watch this space.
p.s. Well done Simon, you kept it going for years almost single handed, Thank you.
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Post by Batchoy on Mar 28, 2013 21:32:08 GMT 1
Whilst it is sad to see the demise of Aerodyne, I can well understand Simon's position of not wanting to carry on producing it and with no one at the AGM willing to take it on, I joined the majority vote was to cease producing it.
I produce a magazine for another club with ten times the membership of the BKF and it is a pretty thankless task, and despite paying members by the page for contributions I find myself writing at least 75% of the magazine myself and begging, borrowing and stealing what other copy I can find. Whilst obtaining copy has always been an issue the problem has been exacerbated by the use of social media be it forums, facebook or twitter and peoples desire for instant gratification.
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