Re: [Swprograms] BBC "Global Minds" -- the person they engaged to discuss sport(s) isn't a "radio guy"

[Daniel Say <say@xxxxxx>]

> I presume you imply that she doesn't get the WS via terrestrial radio
> due to her location... correct?  Who knows...she might have a Sirius /
> XM subscription or she listens online...
> 
> Clearly the Global Minds site is suited specifically to engage with
> folks that are likely already getting e-mail from the World Service --
> the regular Thursday e-mail I get contained the invitation that I
> responded to.
> Further, there is no mention at the Global Minds website regarding the
> sufficiency, relevance or uniqueness of the various "delivery
> platforms" being used.
> In one of the admin forums, the person from the WS mused that the
> forums were using a higher level of technology-speak than was
> important...I posted that a bigger issue was ensuring that those
> without access to phones or computers had a voice.
> The "World Update" program (weekdays 0900) has been soliciting text
> messages / e-mails during the program the past week or so, if for
> nothing else than to tell the WS that we're listening.  There have
> been a fair number of messages read on air from Africa via folks who
> texted via their cell phones.
> Richard

	and the email I got from the former survey 
	service in March 2009

	And my Yahoo mail account puts all GlobalMinds
	emails into the Spam folder--not my doing but
	automatic from Yahoo's Spam detector.  Many 
	never look there for anything 'trusting the 
	system'.

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