Admin Question - Proposal to make this group publicly readaable

[Mid Sussex Drama Liaison]

Hi Everyone,

I would like feedback from people on whether we should

1. Make the group messages readable by anyone on the web. (at groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mid-sussex-drama )
   
   
2. Perhaps also allow anyone to join up automatically
   
   
3. Or create a new group for show ticket sales announcements only - and keep this one for Help and Advice etc.

Or indeed any other option!

• Please just reply and say what you would prefer - unless there's a very quick and clear consensus I'll give it a couple of weeks and then summarise.

My own thoughts are that:

   We should open it to anyone to read messages on the web  (yes to 1)

   but for the moment still require people to sign up before letting people get emails or post.. (so not 2 ).

   I don't think there's enough traffic to make a separate list worthwhile -

        but perhaps a group called Mid Sussex Amateur Show Announcements would be better - but preferably not such a mouthful. (don't care on 3)

NB: re privacy: the sending email is not visible to public browsing on the web, and if requested I will delete any old emails where youy may have listed contact details in the message itself before we change anything.

FYI - here's a somewhat random group "ml-news"  where messages are publicly readable - but which you you need need to join to do more.

Here's a summary of how we got here:

The original idea for this group was to work a kind of behind the scenes (no pun intended) forum for both passing on publicity and requests for help between active people as at many local(ish) societies as possible.

• Email seemed the lowest common solution - and although more people are using facebook these days it's not universally used (or trusted) and apart from new joiners the current system runs itself.
  
• I think it's been a limited sucess, but by keeping the forum private we prevent people jusy browsing - and the main aim was to get our message out
  

• Also newsletter space and getting details at the right time or in the right format for passing on has I think limited the impact of the publicity sharing
  
• Although that's still the cheapest publicity we can all get apart from word of mouth!
• And I still hear about some shows nearby too late to go to, nevermind in time to publicise further.

• Hence this suggestion to cut out the middle-man and allow the public to read our announceements here directly if they wish
  

But it should stay focused on local amateur theatre - and carry on enabling what  it was intended to do.

• It's tough to attract people away from work, TV and online activities, but people who have seen one show may well consider seeing another on another day or in another week.
• It's not a competion for the same people at the same time, and more people seeing amateur shows is good for us all.
• We all have some loyal audience members who come to local shows for local people, but as most of us know there are great opportunities to see something new (or an old favourite) very close to home and at a very reasonable price.
• Plus we can get to relax as part of the audience, see how our performances compare with each other too!

Hope this all makes sense, please do let me know what you think,

Break a leg!

kr's

  Paul

[Paula Woolven]

Hi, I'm no longer involved with theatre, can you please remove me from the mailing list?

Many thanks.

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[Cuckfield Dramatic Society]

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[Liz Gibson]

My thoughts:

I thought the original idea for this group was that we would all circulate the info amongst us and then each of us would send the info around our theatre group members.

But this can only work if each of us has access to our membership with an information feed of some kind that is in addition to our monthly or quarterly newsletters; otherwise the info may well be too late, as you say below.

Henfield Theatre Company has Hot Topics. Any member can send any theatre-related notice to the person in charge, who then sends it out to the entire membership. This is what I have been doing with notices received from the Mid-Sussex Drama Liaison Group.

However, I know that notices I send to the group on behalf of Henfield T. C. are not always sent round the membership of other groups. I know this because I am a member of several theatre groups and do not get sent the notices I have submitted.

I feel that if this were addressed then the membership of the MSDLG should remain restricted - we can all publicise our shows to the wider public as we do now.

I'll be very interested in the thoughts of others on this.

Cheers for now,

                      Liz

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[Peter Joyce]

Dear Paul,

As Sectretary of Wick Theatre Company, Southwick I see all the email traffic from MSDL and I believe the group message system has had its day

[1] I suggest you drop the group messages set-up.

[2] Open a Facebook page for MSDL and give all the opportunity to post events

[3] Each company likes MSDL through their own FB page

[4] Thus MSDL affiliates reach beyond the company members and into the arms of all our likes and followers

[5] Take a poll on the value of a MSDL Instagram and Twitter account.

Thoughts ....

Kind Regards

Peter

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