Encouraging Newsletter Use
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 9:16 am
I have been trying several things to encourage members to use the Newsletter the last several weeks.
(1) I have been posting the Sunday Sacrament program with announcements, on Sunday afternoon. Rather than attach it as a PDF file, I take a screen shot, crop it, and add it as a jpg. (Photos open immediately without any more clicking.)
(2) I do screen shots of any flyers handed out and add them the same way.
(3) I post a "mystery" photo of the week so they have to open the Newsletter to see it. (I take photos of ward activities, building cleaning, etc.)
(4) This week I am going to try something different. I am going to post my mystery photo, but with the face or faces blanked out and ask them to guess who the "mystery" person is. Hopefully, this will generate some feedback so I can get a sense of who might be reading the Newsletter. Right now, the only feedback I have received is from members who were not at Sacrament Meeting and appreciate the posted program.
I still send an email to the ward with some general information and give them the link to open the Newsletter.
I would be interested in what others might be doing to encourage Newsletter use.
(1) I have been posting the Sunday Sacrament program with announcements, on Sunday afternoon. Rather than attach it as a PDF file, I take a screen shot, crop it, and add it as a jpg. (Photos open immediately without any more clicking.)
(2) I do screen shots of any flyers handed out and add them the same way.
(3) I post a "mystery" photo of the week so they have to open the Newsletter to see it. (I take photos of ward activities, building cleaning, etc.)
(4) This week I am going to try something different. I am going to post my mystery photo, but with the face or faces blanked out and ask them to guess who the "mystery" person is. Hopefully, this will generate some feedback so I can get a sense of who might be reading the Newsletter. Right now, the only feedback I have received is from members who were not at Sacrament Meeting and appreciate the posted program.
I still send an email to the ward with some general information and give them the link to open the Newsletter.
I would be interested in what others might be doing to encourage Newsletter use.