New enquirers information pack
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A pack for new enquirers can now be downloaded from the website. Worth passing on to a friend?
http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist_party_information_pack.pdf
I think 47 pages is about the right amount to swamp any new enquirer with just too much information and prove to be a turn-off rather than a turn-on. In fact it appears to be an exercise in talking at the working class rather than talking with them.
It is 47 pages, but it's in LARGE print and designed with tablets and kindles in mind.I sure any interested person is more than capable of read 7 articles from the Standard, which is what these are…
Do we ever learn from the many books and articles written on the subject and dangers of 'information overload'? We are assuming that all enquiries are by default a request for substantial information on the party case. And hence arrived at the false conclusion one fit suits all, and in the process forgotten that yes some people are bookworms and yes some people are not that much interested in long tracts of political debate.If its designed for tablets and kindle that does offset the dangers of information overload to a certain extent. On the other hand if its sent out by post its likely to be binned or forgotten.
Yes Brian we cannot read minds. I can only presume that if someone clicks on a link that says 'click here to download an information pack' they will want an information pack.
Well to settle this, i think it just takes a matter of tweaking by DJP to satisfy Brian by offering a choice of long and short versions of the pack…SPGB-LITE and SPGB-SH….no i wont say the obvious…lol
If its 'designed for tablets and kindle' then the document should be reflowable (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflowable_document) not a PDF.
jondwhite wrote:If its 'designed for tablets and kindle' then the document should be reflowable (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflowable_document) not a PDF.It's a pdf because thats the most universally compatible format. A zip with all different formats could have been an option but I thought that would just confuse people.
A sympathiser in France has done an equivalent in French:http://bataillesocialiste.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/spgb2.pdfThere should of course be a link to it from the World Socialist Movement site but who is dealing with this now?Can it also be read on kindle, etc and, if so, advertised that it can be?
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