Newsletter or Blog?

Do you think that the possibility of creating a blog for news about the EA alumni be investigated or should the old style of sending newsletters continue? One can easily subscribe to receive any updates on a blog in their email. (Of course it might be difficult to actually go ahead and register the blog because everything will need to be done officially, which is why I ask if such a possibility should be investigated.)

vikram wrote:

Do you think that the possibility of creating a blog for news about the EA alumni be investigated or should the old style of sending newsletters continue? One can easily subscribe to receive any updates on a blog in their email. (Of course it might be difficult to actually go ahead and register the blog because everything will need to be done officially, which is why I ask if such a possibility should be investigated.)

The news blog would be a good idea, but if we dont send emails to Alumni again, less and less people would keep in mind to check it regularly. So we can do it both way, just keep the news emails as before. The blog can be created as a formal propagation.

Hi I support the idea of the newsblog (the one possibly not dependant on the server in Nice), however we could still continue placing the information on the current web site: http://www.euroaquae.org/jahia/page5258_en.html (maybe not as much as before as I assume more information will be placed on the news blog somewhere else) and send out the newsletters as no matter how good the blog is, some graduates may not be visiting it at all. The newsletters can be sent out three or two times a year.

I would add another option to the answers (or re-phrase the option "other") on the poll among the answers on the poll above. This option could be: start developing a newsblog and continue with the newsletters with lesser frequency (2-3 times a year).

I see Erasmus Mundus Alumni Association post information on their web-site and send the newsletters (not often, but they do). And I think it works out quite well.

For newsletter we can have opt-out options (not opt-in), however we should still think of the ways of reminding of ourselves to those who decide to opt-out (if any will).