May I ask, in reply to Doug and Laura (excerpted below), and in a
self-serving but hopefully humble mode (explained below), whether any of
the Res-Adm community has used a newsletter as part of a campaign to
reach your constituents, and if so, with what consistenty (it's
relatively easy to produce the first issue, but to keep up a schedule is
a little harder), and with what success, and would any of you consider
using an outside service to produce, design (and at least partially)
write it?

(I say "self-serving," because we have begun to do this for the tech
transfer offices at a few universities and now federal labs,
and it seems to be getting the message out--not to every faculty member,
of course, because no communication channel is 100% effective, but to
more than they were able to reach before.)

I say "humbly" because we have been serving the tech transfer community
for ten years now, and have only been accepted because time has proven
out our status as a friend.

Laura wrote:
>
> I agree.  Unfortunately at the Smithsonian Institution, making
> on-site visits is not so easy.

In reply to Doug, who wrote:
> The bottom line is to get out of your office and  visit your
> faculty, your
> users,

--
Regards,

Michael

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