Dear Newsletter Readers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Welcome to another edition of our newsletter and I hope it finds you in good overall health in both mind and body. In this week\u2019s edition, we have as usual collected together for you all what we feel are a selection of various interesting news articles that cover a fairly broad range of topics. We hope that you click some of the links open and check them out. As for my contribution this week, I thought I would put together a short poem based on our newsletter as we are thinking about sending it out as a monthly rather than a weekly publication. Until next time, please enjoy the weekend ahead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Feedback makes things better<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Welcome to another edition of our weekly newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With each passing edition I question whether it\u2019s getting worse or better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s been up and running since 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 13 years as a weekly publication is, if I may say so, a fairly impressive amount of time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n > <\/p>\n\n\n\n Over this period very little in the way of feedback has been placed before our eyes and ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The only comments we\u2019ve received have been from colleagues and peers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Which of course are valuable in themselves as some feedback is better than nothing at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The audience that we send out to seem happy to catch but not throw back the ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n > <\/p>\n\n\n\n Out of over 300 recipients of our newsletter the number that click open the links amounts to seven or less. <\/p>\n\n\n\n How often we send out our newsletter is something that we carefully need to address. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019ve made various attempts to get our receivers to tell us what they like and dislike about our newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Soliciting receiver feedback is a necessary part of making the no-so-good bits better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n > <\/p>\n\n\n\n The questionnaires we\u2019ve sent out thus far have yielded no replies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Perhaps it\u2019s time to bid our weekly newsletter a firm goodbye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And send out a monthly edition instead in the hope that less frequency will result in more articles being read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s hoping that this poem will provoke some reader feedback as this newsletter is hungry and is in need of being fed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A poem by Stephen Austwick<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Newsletter Readers, Welcome to another edition of our newsletter and I hope it finds you in good overall …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stephens-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alphabendi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alphabendi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alphabendi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alphabendi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alphabendi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.alphabendi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"http:\/\/www.alphabendi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alphabendi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alphabendi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alphabendi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}