New site and forum going well

**catswhiskers** · 10-11-2011, 20:29

Ian I have a couple of articles ongoing which I'd like to keep working on until the deadline. Can you let me know your 'ideal closing date' for sending in.
Cheers,
Mick

**Deltona_evo1** · 10-11-2011, 20:59

Hi there,

Really nice, I was having a look to the forum trying to learn with your experiences with the different replica kits, I hope have the necessary permissions in order to follow closely your builds!!

Thanks!
Cheers, Deltona

**The Slug** · 10-11-2011, 22:19

Originally Posted by catswhiskers

Ian I have a couple of articles ongoing which I'd like to keep working on until the deadline. Can you let me know your 'ideal closing date' for sending in.
Cheers,
Mick

Thanks Mick 8th Dec please. thank you..

**ChrisCar6** · 11-11-2011, 00:43

I always use the 'What's New' button to follow the chat. I suppose this approach means that active threads get longer, but doesn't start new ones. When I get more time on the car, I hope to help trigger new threads.
Ian, I'm amazed at what you have achieved in getting the new website up and running ; this has saved the community from disintegration - thank you and well done! It really is appreciated.

**The Slug** · 11-11-2011, 01:43

Originally Posted by ChrisCar6

Ian, I'm amazed at what you have achieved in getting the new website up and running ; this has saved the community from disintegration -

I only put the tools in place, its you folks that use them, without participation it would be worthless..,,

Thats why I would like to find out why the newsletter is so badly supported, maybe members dont want a newsletter?
Myself I think its a very valuable asset for the club to have, I wish we could just get some opinion's fed back to us.

**ducatiman** · 11-11-2011, 06:37

Ian - Do not be so modest........................without you I think we would all now be lost and scattered to the four corners of the universe trying to find some direction. It is great now that this belongs to the club, I know that a lot more people will be prepared to make more technical information available.

As for the news letter it is great and I think it still should be produced......................

**Bernard** · 11-11-2011, 08:09

Ian........... I would just like to echo all the comments made by the guy's above

well done and thank you !!

Phil

**The Slug** · 11-11-2011, 10:32

I thank you all for your comments........

Andy I like the "As for the news letter it is great and I think it still should be produced......................"

This is not a moan just trying to find out where we are going wrong.....
What I'm trying to say or get at is that very few members take part in the newsletter, we have only the same few who send in articles, only 1 person took part in the compertitions, no one has replied to the photo caption questions, and we have yet to receive any articles for the next one. (Mick is doing some I know, thank you). We have asked for Photos and lets face it most of us have a photo and a story that goes with it, but even that request has failed to deliver a picture.

How can you continue to produce an item that you receive no content for? (Getting content has always been hard I know.)

As A club we have made a commitment to produce 4 a year, maybe the content needs to change, I dont know.... but in its the present form it does not appear to be hitting the mark, it's just not getting a responce from people, folk are just not engaging with it.

Lets have a discussion on what the members want from a news letter, and are they prepared to commit to support it with content, as we have said before it does not need to always be about the car's..... those that build and drive them are just as intresting as the car's.