By admin | April 24th, 2009

CC news is a terrible thing to waste.

Open letter to all members from the “staff” at “Now Hear This” and this website. We are in the 21st century. It is time to put down the chisels and rocks and use technology to our advantage. When we receive images of typed material or hard paper copies, to run in either forum, it is a GREAT drain (and pain) on our time to prepare them for publication. I am a poor typist at best and prone to many misspellings. (see what I just did there?)

We ABSOLUTELY want to run photos and stories about our members and their chapters but if it takes 3+ hours to retype, clean up, remove halftones, etc…. it probably won’t happen. (Which would be a great loss to our members) We can run scanned images of typed text .. see San Francisco Chapter’s latest minutes. BUT that has many problems. It is difficult to read, cannot be published in the newsletter and cannot be searched, so members cannot find the information they need from such a document.

We recognize there are a great many of our readers who are not Internet savvy. No problem, but there MUST be at least one member of your chapter, or child, or even grandchild who could electronically submit your items (fastest). Even if you just send a “file” of the typed text on a disc by snail mail, that would help.
– Kate Stark, USMCCCA webmaster

robert stanley

April 24th, 2009 at 23:0

Kate,
Sorry, I didn’t mean to drive you to hysteria. Love your web site and all the help you give us. Thanks again for all the help and a big OOHRAH and Semper Fi for all your hard work and help. Oh and thank that other guy also, what’s his name, Oh yeah, Jack … is it Paxton? Thank you also, Jack.
Semper Fi and Frater Infinitis, Bob Stanley and the non Web linked Roudy Rosenthal Bunch.

Jack Paxton

April 25th, 2009 at 09:0

Kate: As your “partner-in-crime” I couldn’t agree more. You didn’t mention the use of Etcha-Sketch or the IBM Selectric as other stone-age items but I have mentioned both in my column on same subject in our newsletter, Now Hear This, due out May 1. We simply do not have the time to waste doing something that could have been done right in the first place. The Tribal Elder…

April 25th, 2009 at 13:0

Hey Jack, speaking of Hi Tech, Love your picture next to your name in the comment section. It just doesn’t do you justice. Maybe a bigger smile.
Semper Fi Bob