[Dialogue] ICA:UK Network News - an invitation and request

[Martin Gilbraith (ICA:UK)]

Dear all,

(apologies if you receive this more than once)

In December we published the landmark 40th issue of ICA:UK Network News, 
the newsletter of ICA in Britain since 1997.  It and other back issues 
of the newsletter are still available to download from our website at 
http://www.ica-uk.org.uk/icauk-network-news/

In that 40th issue we welcomed and profiled our new volunteer newsletter 
editor, Graham Beech.  With Graham we are now looking ahead to future 
newsletters, and would like to make both an invitation and a request to you.

*Our invitation* to you is to contribute to an interim issue #41, to be 
published in March.  We plan for this to be a shorter issue than usual, 
in order to focus our energies on a thorough review of how we should 
best communicate in future.  However we would welcome your contributions 
as usual.  The deadline for contributions is *March 8th* - if you are 
interested to contribute, please first look at our new, one-page 
*Guidelines for Contributors*, available to download in pdf from 
http://www.ica-uk.org.uk/icauk-network-news/   Then please email your 
proposals and contributions directly to graham at ica-uk.org.uk as soon as 
you can - please do not wait until the deadline to get in touch.

*Our request *to you is to spend a few minutes of your time to 
contribute to our review, by sharing your feedback on how you have found 
ICA:UK Network News in the past, and your ideas on how you would like to 
hear from ICA:UK in future.  Please use the questions below as a guide - 
or send your feedback and ideas in whatever format you choose.  Please 
send this directly to me, at martin at ica-uk.org.uk.

I look forward to hearing from you.  With many thanks indeed, and best 
wishes,
Martin

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*ICA:UK Network News readers' questionnaire*

1.  how have you accessed ICA:UK Network News -- by email attachment, at 
www.calameo.com, at the ICA:UK website, or not at all?


2.  what parts of the newsletter do you regularly read thoroughly; what 
do you glance over; and what do you not read at all?


3.  do you forward or circulate the newsletter?  If so, to whom?


4.  what have you appreciated most about the newsletter?  What have you 
appreciated least?


5.  what would you most like to stay the same?  What would you most like 
to be different?


6.  what changes (eg: to format, content, frequency, distribution, etc.) 
would enable ICA:UK's communications to add most value to you & your 
work, and to ICA:UK and its work?


7.  would you prefer to receive other communications instead of the 
newsletter, or as well?  If so, what?


8.  have you accessed back issues of the newsletter at the ICA:UK 
website, or the index of articles?  How could that be a valuable 
resource for you?


9.  would you be interested to get involved with the newsletter, eg: by 
contributing on a one-off or a regular basis, or by helping to produce 
the newsletter or a section of it?


10.  do you have anything else to add?


-- 

*Martin Gilbraith* <martin at ica-uk.org.uk <mailto:martin at ica-uk.org.uk>>

*Chief Executive, ICA:UK*
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registered in England & Wales, at 41 Old Birley Street, Manchester M15 5RF
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