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#472353 - 12/16/07 10:32 PM
Re: The NAAP!
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R W Burgess
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Registered: 06/13/02
Posts: 10080
Loc: Warsaw, Va.
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You think you funny! That's alright, I'll be calling on you shortly for some "get down and dirty" hard work. I'll let Santa visit you first, assuming you didn't mess up again this year!  
Wayne
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#472427 - 12/17/07 09:55 AM
Re: The NAAP!
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Terry Bond
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Registered: 05/02/00
Posts: 1009
Loc: Chesapeake VA
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Survey should probably be sent to all editors since so few look at the forum. I also feel there should some points given/taken for quality or lack thereof. If a prez gets a few lines in the N/L he gets the requisite amount of points regardless of quality of the article. It seems difficult to get away from the subjectivity in some areas.
Like working on computers, we're getting used to it, and I sure enjoyed looking over all those newsletters this year.
Oh-can we add a deduction to the form for "Staple Punctures in finger?"
Terry
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#472437 - 12/17/07 10:13 AM
Re: The NAAP!
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R W Burgess
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Loc: Warsaw, Va.
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#472456 - 12/17/07 10:57 AM
Re: The NAAP!
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Debby Soucia
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Registered: 06/17/05
Posts: 178
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Oh! OH!
Terry
Hope one of those staples was not mine!
I do hope they send a questioner, that be a good idea to see what every one likes and disliked.
Deby
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#477636 - 01/08/08 03:49 PM
Re: The NAAP!
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Dynaflash8
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Registered: 03/03/01
Posts: 838
Loc: Sebring, FL USA
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The more one starts evaluating "quality", the more unfair it gets and the more speculative it gets, because what is "quality" to one person is not "quality" to another. Further, any Region or Chapter with a "quality" writer is lucky. Many Regions and Chapters have a very difficult time getting anyone to do the newsletter. The name of the game is to "get the right stuff to the members" and to provide true encouragement to the volunteers willing to give newsletter editing a try, and their best, regardless of their ability to write, or to pay for more pages in the product. The idea of the NAAP is to reward effort. The bigger and richer the Region or Chapter the better their ability to produce "quality" in all aspects of a newsletter's production.
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#477775 - 01/09/08 08:24 AM
Re: The NAAP!
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BruceW
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Registered: 02/14/00
Posts: 1701
Loc: Harford County, Maryland
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Earl,
I don't know what any of the others who mentioned quality might have been thinking, but I was not refering to the quality of writing in terms of phrase and prose.
Maybe quality was a bad word to use. I was thinking more on items such as the logic and use of the newsletter layout and presentation, and the usefulness of the information provided, among other things. In my opinion, a well laid out newsletter not only shows the time and effort put into it, but it also tends to make the members more likely to read the information in it.
For an extremely exagerated example:
1. The AACA is having a tour in Virginia.
2. The Northern Neck Region AACA is hosting a Glidden Tour in Warsaw, Virginia during June 3-7, 2008. For more information, contact Wild Wayne Burgess at 1-800-BIGRIGS.
#1 technically fills the requirement of presenting an AACA news item but has little usefulness while #2 provides the information that is more useful to the reader and wasn't the work worthy of a Pulitzer Prize winner.
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Bruce Wheeler
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#477864 - 01/09/08 04:12 PM
Re: The NAAP!
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Dynaflash8
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Registered: 03/03/01
Posts: 838
Loc: Sebring, FL USA
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Not at all what I was talking about Bruce. Basically, your example is a portion of the Calander. The Calander is a 10 point aspect of a good newsletter. This particular entry would be worthy of 5 more points as identifying a National event. However, if six more National events were also in the calander, their total worth is still only 5 points. Now, in example #1, without identification of a time and place, it wouldn't be worth the 5 points. Common sense also comes into play, in that since this event is advertised in the national magazine, were I the evaluator, I probably wouldn't require the contact information to get the value, but of course it's recommended. Naturally there can be a switch point at which the evaluator decides enough information is included to qualify for credit at all. But, if it is decided that the entry fills the requirement, it gets the points. That decision can be made without deciding how good or how long or how pretty the item is to meet the threshold of passing valuable or readable/useful information. I hope I made my point clear.
Edited by Dynaflash8 (01/09/08 04:18 PM)
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