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From: "John Gilpin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] News Editor
> You know, QUANTA is always prepared to listen to anyone with a serious
> proposition, it's just it's membership who don't seem to have that many
> propositions for us to listen to!! This is quite different to QUANTA never
> listening and when we have listened, we then decide our further actions if
> any.
>
> We don't claim any praise for robbing Dilwyn from QLToday - after all, it
> was GW's suggestion and we are grateful for it. {:-))
>
This may surprise you, John, but the inspiration came from Quanta.
As QL Today editor I analyse the content of the Quanta Magazine fairly
rigorously and I found it greatest weakness was its patchy news coverage.
This can includes a poor or non-existent presentation of Quanta's own news.
I knew that there could be no chance of significant improvement under you
and John Mason. An active news gathering policy is time consuming and both
of you had too many other Quanta duties to take on this responsibility.
I concluded the problem was insoluble until I saw how Quanta had tackled
the webmaster problem by looking further than the "usual suspects." I
thought a similar approach to a news reporter would be possible.
The crazy thing was that Dilwyn told me that he was considering going on
the committee at Birmingham and we had a discussion about what Quanta job
he was most suited to, but I did not connect this to my news reporter
proposal.
Dilwyn is absolutely perfect for the role. He has the experience and does
not need training for the job; he has an impressive address book; and he
brings a welcome technical expertise to the Quanta committee.
However, I suspect that Quanta and Dilwyn will need to define the boundaries
of his role fairly clearly. At Manchester I had a discussion with JM about
what news items should go on Quanta's website and with you about making more
use of the QL-users list. Both of these things are rather more complicated
than they might seem at first sight.
I should perhaps explain for the benefit of people who are not familiar with
these, there are questions about how much information from the magazine
should go on the web when members are paying for it. There is also a need to
distinguish between "official" Quanta items and committee members personal
opinions,
Best wishes,
Geoff
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