Monthly Bulletin March/April 2005 - Vol 8 No. 2

Kristie Eggleston LoA Inc Webmaster and Bulletin Editor Photo: Jennifer Eggleston

It appears that the new look Bulletin is viewed favourably amongst readers. Feedback received includes:

• "Love the new look bulletin, clean, concise, easy to navigate! Really like it!!!!"
• "Congratulations on the new bulletin. While still giving a lot of valuable and interesting information, it certainly downloads faster, clears our inbox quickly and is easy to navigate.  Many thanks for the new format, keep up the great work."
• "Love the new [Bulletin] format - so much quicker to load for those of us in the sticks still on 28k phone lines!"
• "Congratulations on the updated Monthly Bulletin format. It is wonderful to no longer get the huge Emails which took ages to load (even on my very powerful PC) and occupied lots of archive storage. I think you have done a fantastic job of letting the Website be the repository for articles and photographs and allowing recipients of the Bulletin to choose which they would like to read (and hence download)."
• "Very much enjoyed L.O.A. Bulletin Vol.8 No. 1. Both layout and contents are I feel, a considerable improvement; particularly liked the concise text."

• "WOW………the bulletin looks fantastic! As a rather quiet observer rather than active member I was knocked over when I opened the screen today. Well done… You’ve certainly raised my interest."

The only negative comment received was from a member who always prints out each edition of the Bulletin, and mentioned that it now requires more clicks of the mouse, and a little more paper, to print out a complete copy!

Nonetheless, it would appear that I have successfully achieved my long-term goal of improving the Bulletin, by reducing the size of what is delivered to your mailbox, allowing you to choose articles of interest, and improving the navigation within the Bulletin itself, without compromising the content.

I have also made major changes to the rest of the Lighthouses of Australia Inc website, incorporating maps for each state, and changing the appearance of the pages for each individual lighthouse. Some new lighthouse pages have also been researched and published - see the new Point Malcolm and Cape Don lighthouse pages.

The rest of the LoA Inc Committee have been busy too, answering queries, welcoming new members, brainstorming sponsorship strategies, preparing the printed journal Prism, adding new subscribers to the Bulletin mailing list, relighting lighthouses for special occasions..... the list goes on! We have noticed that the amount of correspondence coming in from readers and members has increased dramatically, which we hope is a reflection of the hard work we have put into the website, the Bulletin and the organisation as a whole. We apologise in advance if responses to your queries take a little longer than expected, as we work our way through all the emails and letters.

I welcome your feedback regarding the Bulletin and/or website - send your comments or suggestion to me via keeper@lighthouse.net.au.

We also hope that as ongoing Bulletin subscribers, those of you who are not members will take up the opportunity to join LoA Inc, and assist us the preservation of Australia's lighthouses.

Regards,

Kristie Eggleston
LoA Inc Webmaster & Bulletin Editor

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