Club Torque Spring 2021

CLUB TORQUE FEEDBACK

FEEDBACK

Words: Kerri Langworthy-Ward Images: Stock footage

Nothing makes me feel more positive about the future of NSWMX-5 car club magazine than the feedback from members on our Club Torque - Winter digital magazine. The good, the bad, the cautious the embracing - all opinions count and will be considered when the communications sub- committee starts work next year on the future of the magazine. This is your Club Torque and every MX-5 NSW club member will be given the opportunity to have input on the future format of the magazine and... website, newsletter and communications materials we produce to keep everyone entertained and informed.

One of the most interesting things we gleaned from your feedback is that readers have a broad range of experience when using technology to access content. Whether it be scanning QR codes for COVID contact tracing to using Zoom to connect you to friends and colleagues, the overall experience has been a technological leap for us all over the last two years. There are challenges creating a ‘timely’ magazine that’s printed and delivered quarterly. ‘News’ soon becomes ‘old’ and the stories published become a copy and paste of the website content. One of the objectives for creating a future Club Torque is to publish a broad range of content

(technology, tech talk, interviews, meet the members and more) in the most relevant timeframe and environmentally responsible way. The communications sub-committee focus will be to capture new ways to deliver members the freshest quality content into the future whether that be print or digital. Here is some of the great feedback we received: “Congratulations to you, Peter and all those who ‘supplied articles’ for the magazine. You’ve done a great job in a short time, under quite a bit of pressure. Congratulations, too, on making the courageous decision to go digital. I have no problems with a digital magazine; quality hard copy magazines/ journals are an expensive extravagance

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