Yeah, I think that's common, and I confess that I'm a bit offended by it: we're not exactly burdened with excess volunteer labor, so wasting the time of people in all these Baronies seems like a really bad idea to me.
And yet, on the flip side, I kind of feel like there is an open ecological niche here -- that we still need something *like* newsletters to help draw us together. The question is, what should we be doing that is actually useful and interesting to our members, not just wasting officers' time?
One fundamental problem may be the office split between Chronicler and Webminister, which has been institutionalized all up and down the chain. I'd bet that replacing both jobs with a single one in charge of "communications", as a general concept, would do us a world of good, simply by shaking up our assumptions and encouraging folks to think in terms of the problem, not in terms of specific media...
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And yet, on the flip side, I kind of feel like there is an open ecological niche here -- that we still need something *like* newsletters to help draw us together. The question is, what should we be doing that is actually useful and interesting to our members, not just wasting officers' time?
One fundamental problem may be the office split between Chronicler and Webminister, which has been institutionalized all up and down the chain. I'd bet that replacing both jobs with a single one in charge of "communications", as a general concept, would do us a world of good, simply by shaking up our assumptions and encouraging folks to think in terms of the problem, not in terms of specific media...