4 Wheel drift

[offcamber09]

I am told that the Drift is now history- sadness, but understandable. My question is will there be space sold on the website devoted to business ads?
It was part of our marketing plan to run an ad in the Drift. The website should be a revenue source for the club- with the club having the say as to the appropriateness of the ads. Please don't let Raj have the final say- I don't want to be subjected to Viagra ads on our site!

[StephanAlfa]

Right, I think COM should create space for that, there are plently of us who can benefit from this. My Alfa club has a session for "sponsors" (www.velocissima.com) and this works great for everyone.

[Subw00er]

I dont mind seeing ads if it benefits the club.

[dinoracer]

Indeed, at the last board meeting there was much discussion regarding the history and future of the DRIFT; and it was decided that the mailed-out hard copy will be discontinued. The availablity of direct e-mail broadcasts, and this website and forums, have made the DRIFT obsolete.

However, we (your club management) do plan to bring the best parts of the DRIFT to the website, such as event photos, advertising, and interesting articles. We're in the process out figuring out the steps to take to make this happen, and who's going to be doing it.

As always suggestions (and especially volunteers to implement same) are always encouraged!

[Scooter70]

Was the reason for its demise the postage costs or the time/labor to put it together? How about a pdf version that can be e-mailed and posted on the homepage/forum?

[brucesallen]

It was not postage or the musch higher printing costs. Half and half:
-- volunteer to do it
-- lack of need as most of the content that used to be in the Drift in the last millennium is already on the COM Web site and in the forums. Now full event coverage and photos needs to be added.

BTW: when I was Drift editor Paul and I played with PDF version but it always gave very inferior photos.

[StephanAlfa]

Just FYI and FWIW in the Alfa maganize there is an option on electronic articles (great beacuse you can load it with thumnails and not be restricted to the amount of pictures) and instead of PDF you have better resolution in the "online" magazine. Still able to print for those who like to read via paper medium and individually print each picture if so desired.
Now if we assign the event organizer to wrtie the story for each event and have volunteers to write articles I think we can minimize the load on a single person. All we need to an "editor" to bundle it together after.
Thoughts?

[lou m]

This a big mistake IMO. The drift is what lets the members know what is happening in the club and can really help the club expand to new membership.

I enjoyed being the drift editor. It was difficult to get some of the issues out because it was tough to get people, including board members to actually submit articles.

I was invited to no longer be the drift editor. Now, 2 issues later and it's dead???

What other established NE driving car club does not have a quality newsletter?

Does EMRA? If not their website has 5 times the content ours has.

I would encourage more members to attend the board meetings, myself included.

Lou Milinazzo

First COM event at Bryar in '88

Shelby GLHS- new bottom end (forged crank) and turbo.
Silver with new blue stripes Z28 (crank is still good)
Mini Cooper S (wifes)
05 Hemi Ram 2500
95 Intrepid 3.5 215k mi and still going strong.

[jadams]

Lou,

Crank is still good? Is that some kind of slam again my piece of junk car?

[lou m]

Nope, your car rocks. Just thinking about my f-body which is going to be out of commision for awhile. 38k mi LS1 possibly available.......easy swap for you