newsletter

[a1]

Don't you think that SimV should have a monthly newsletter? I think that we should be informed about changes, new aircraft,multiplayer sessions, and real life aviation.

[eno]

We have a daily one ......... called the forums  ;D

[pete]

Don't you think that SimV should have a monthly newsletter? I think that we should be informed about changes, new aircraft,multiplayer sessions, and real life aviation.

You offering to do the work?

Remember - A good suggestion includes an Answer ........  ;) 8-)

[C]

We have a daily one ......... called the forums  ;D

Might actually work though - the newsletter arriving in the inbox once a month may just prompt a few people back to the site and the forums...

[a1]

may one of the admins or someone who has experience with these things do it?

[Fly2e]

Posted by: a1 Posted on: Today at 4:39pm
may one of the admins or someone who has experience with these things do it?  

LOL, like we don't have our plates filled already  ;D
Like pete said,.

You offering to do the work?

Remember - A good suggestion includes an Answer ........

[a1]

i don't have the right tools to do it. i am a newbe at this internet computer stuff.

[EGNX]

i don't have the right tools to do it. i am a newbe at this internet computer stuff.

Now just look at what a pickle your in! But I agree it is a good idea, maybe we could brainstorm so ideas to go with this newsletter. I wouldn't mind helping out but we would need a team of people...

[C]

Well, what kind of things would you want in a newsletter - bearing in mind in some ways Andy is entirely correct - the forum and main site are a constantly updated "feed" as it were. Personally I think you'd be looking at bringing in the not so regular SimV users...

Content is another thing altogether. Something that could be quite nice, assuming it was (for example) a 4 page or so Acrobat document could be mini reviews (1/2 page or so) of the month's best freeware. This is something that is now lacking in the off the shelf UK publication "PC Pilot", which, ahving been taken over by Key Publishing (Today's Pilot, FlyPast, AFM etc fame) seems to have completely dumped - all we know get are thumbnails of what's on the cover disc.

Just a few ideas...

[a1]

lets try to get as many people as we can to be involved in this and lets see what happens. I myself don't have acrobat reader.

[Sir_Crashalot]

I think a newsletter would be completely useless. Since we already have these forums and the mainsite, what do you want to put in the newsletter? Freeware reviews? Download the free aircraft/scenery and try it yourself. Payware reviews? Are already provided by the manufacturer or independent FS sites. What else? News about SimViation? See the forum. How many people do you think would be interested in reading news that has been on the site already? Not many I pressume.

Crash

[C]

I think a newsletter would be completely useless. Since we already have these forums and the mainsite, what do you want to put in the newsletter? Freeware reviews? Download the free aircraft/scenery and try it yourself. Payware reviews? Are already provided by the manufacturer or independent FS sites. What else? News about SimViation? See the forum. How many people do you think would be interested in reading news that has been on the site already? Not many I pressume.

Crash

The content may be completely irrelevant. What it could do is arrive in the mailbox of everyone who signs up to the forum once a month. How many people do you think register for the forum and then don't come back again for months, or leave the account dormant? Quite a few I imagine (although I suspect only Pete really knows). The forum has over 20,000 registered users. How many of them visit regularly?

A newsletter, could even a simple single page showing the highlights of SimV, and maybe a selection of some of the (more serious) topics being discussed on the forum, and would maybe help prompt a few people to think "Yeah, Simviation - I remember that - it was a decent site/forum".

Hopefully this could spruce up a few areas of the forum which IMHO aren't quite what they were a year or two back - mainly recently due the the plethora of topics purely linking to Youtube* (which personally I find a bit of a turn off).

*Other video hosting sites are available

People like Avsim, Flightsim.com, Simmarket have one. For a major FS site, maybe it is worth it.

[a1]

not only the people that are registered get one but any one that subscribe. this website should be the first people come to find news and downloads. the newsletter would be a tool to help and convince people to use this site.

[Sir_Crashalot]

I think a newsletter would be completely useless. Since we already have these forums and the mainsite, what do you want to put in the newsletter? Freeware reviews? Download the free aircraft/scenery and try it yourself. Payware reviews? Are already provided by the manufacturer or independent FS sites. What else? News about SimViation? See the forum. How many people do you think would be interested in reading news that has been on the site already? Not many I pressume.

Crash

The content may be completely irrelevant. What it could do is arrive in the mailbox of everyone who signs up to the forum once a month. How many people do you think register for the forum and then don't come back again for months, or leave the account dormant? Quite a few I imagine (although I suspect only Pete really knows). The forum has over 20,000 registered users. How many of them visit regularly?

A newsletter, could even a simple single page showing the highlights of SimV, and maybe a selection of some of the (more serious) topics being discussed on the forum, and would maybe help prompt a few people to think "Yeah, Simviation - I remember that - it was a decent site/forum".

Hopefully this could spruce up a few areas of the forum which IMHO aren't quite what they were a year or two back - mainly recently due the the plethora of topics purely linking to Youtube* (which personally I find a bit of a turn off).

*Other video hosting sites are available

People like Avsim, Flightsim.com, Simmarket have one. For a major FS site, maybe it is worth it.

If you look at it like that, you might have a point.

The fact that Avsim, NoNodes.com and Simmarket have one is not important. Those three sites also have much more (very annoying) adverts. Ever wondered why? Sometimes it's better to stay small.

Crash

[C]

If you look at it like that, you might have a point.

The fact that Avsim, NoNodes.com and Simmarket have one is not important. Those three sites also have much more (very annoying) adverts. Ever wondered why? Sometimes it's better to stay small.

Crash

True, but those three sites have a lot more commercial background than SimV appears to have (FS Pilot shop etc). I can't see how having more potential visitors would be such a terrible thing...