Newsletter

From: George Otto <g_otto@comcast.net>

Sent: Friday, November 30, 2018 3:14 PM

To: FPboard <fullboard@folkproject.org>

Cc: George Otto <GeorgeOtto@mac.com>

Subject: Newsletter Committee Annual Report 2018-12

Newsletter Committee Annual Report 2018-12

Things are proceeding as usual with the invaluable help of Kathi Caccavale, Pat Brangs, Nancy Kelner, Liz Pagan, Bill Henderson, Paul Fisher, and Joanne Cronin. The proofreaders' sharp eyes usually pick up five to ten errors each issue, almost half of which are misspelled names. Their combined efforts make the newsletter clearly better.

We had one distribution glitch in March, causing the printed newsletter to be delivered late. The electronic newsletter distribution was not affected We tightened up our procedures after that and the problem was not repeated later in the year under similar circumstances.

In August I reviewed all the boilerplate text that is copied from newsletter to newsletter each month, checking to make sure the details were still accurate. Items that needed to be fixed were mostly associated with venues, with updates to admission fees, email addresses, phone numbers, start times, etc. I sent out a reminder to the board about my cleanup, suggesting that other committees might benefit doing a similar cleanup of their own boilerplate and data. This August cleanup will be an annual event.

Sincerely,

George Otto

Folk Project Newsletter Editor

newsletter@folkproject.org

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