Newsletter Ed. 6

Wowee! Thank you so much for doing this. You always do such a thorough and superb job, Grimorie.

Now, go put your feet up and have some chocolate.

Thanks for this! You've done an amazing job and all these links shall keep me busy for ages. And I'm surprised (but happy!) to see myself linked on there too. Keep up the good work!

Damn, you are AMAZING for compiling all this. Thank you.

*hugs* WELL DONE YOU.

Hey, I really appreciate you guys doing this newsletter! I notice that you have some problems with length (and timeliness), though, and it seems like it must take you a long time to do. I've been an editor on a large fandom newsletter for two years now, so here are some suggestions that might help you out as you're starting this one up. Obviously, feel free to ignore me, but I thought I might as well say something, because at this point this newsletter is so long that I find it almost impossible to use effectively.

1) You don't need to put the FAQ about what kind of stuff you link at the top of every single post. Put it in the userinfo, or do a larger FAQ post you can link in the userinfo.

2) Don't link everything, especially reaction posts. I know that for me, I friend fandom newsletters to get links to fic and articles, but I friend individuals to get things like reaction posts to episodes. I mean, you linked a post of mine that's basically just keymashing -- I'm kind of embarrassed to have that link here, because it's wretched and not necessarily intended for public consumption. (I mean, if you're going to link everyone's reaction posts, whatever, I don't care enough to ask you to take it down, I'm just using this as an example of something that doesn't need to be widely disseminated.) So by all means, link meta if it's thoughtful, considered essays, but there's way too many reaction posts in existence to link to everything, especially as the fandom gets bigger. It just makes the thoughtful, considered posts get lost in the shuffle, imho.

3) I'd suggest finding enough editors that you can put the newsletter out in regularly and consistently, so it doesn't end up being a thousand years long. If you only put it out once a week, with three editors you'd only have to do it every three weeks. That's not very often at all for any given person. (We got more editors a year ago so I only do our newsletter once every ten days, and that seems BLISSFULLY RARE.)

Anyway, sorry I'm probably coming across as bossy! You can obviously take or leave any of this advice. It's just that in my experience, it helps to ask yourself what people are looking for in a newsletter, and in general, I think they're looking for a digest of what's going on in fandom, rather than absolutely everything. I mean, I love Life, but when I see something as long as this, I end up not looking at any of it because it's overwhelming and, you know, I have a job. And that just means all your work is going to waste. So. Something to think about! And again, sorry for the bossiness.

No, thank you actually - this is really my first time to be involved in anything like this so your advice means a lot and erm, sorry about the one link I basically did this midnight my time but again, thank you for the advice!

Oh, absolutely, no worries! I do totally appreciate all the work you put into this!

Thanks so much for this!!!

OMG.
i cannot believe you did that.
you helped so mucccch :)
thanks so much i ran over every link and checked them out!
thanks again!