It’s here! The News you can Use! According to this Storque article by admin Vanessa, this improved version of Etsy News Alerts will be more streamlined and site-news-oriented, as well as being delivered more swiftly to in-boxes as the news ‘breaks’.
Excerpt:
Many Etsians have been asking for a cut and dry way to get only the important site news from admin. The Storque is great and all, you say, but there’s so much content, it’s hard to pinpoint what’s what in the Etsy News Section.
We over here at the Storque are up for the task. We are converting the Etsy News Email list to be an Etsy News Alert system. In the past, Etsy News was about a weekly or so collection of headlines from the Storque. Pleasant enough, but not instantaneous! Not hard-hitting!
That was then, this is now: just sign up for the Etsy News Emails listserve here, or by clicking on the envelope icon on the homepage of Etsy.
You will get breaking news headlines straight from Etsy Central, as they are published on the Storque, delivered to your email inboxes. Hello, synchronicity!
Included Topics:
- Downtime & site outages
- Cooperative Advertising announcements
- New site features launched
- Statistics
- Showcase announcements
- Policy & legal announcements
- Important Customer Support how-tos
- Major posts from Etsy’s founder Rob Kalin, aka Rokali
- Town Halls or other community-wide events
- Other news important enough for us to bug you
Sign up for this (and other) Etsy E-mail Alerts here. You can also find a graphic link to the sign-up page on the Etsy front page, beneath the ‘Ways To Shop’ left sidebar. The forum announcement thread can be found here.
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I can’t even imagine why they don’t just email EVERYONE. They’re so busy re-inventing the wheel that obvious practicality is ignored…over and over. They could free us so much of their free time if they’d just do certain things the easy way.
April 27th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
the last chatt had an agenda published before the meeting so things are changing. it was chaired by heymichelle as matt was away and she did guide the meeting to follow the agenda
the format is difficult to follow as everyone potentially can type at once, but you can get used to it. the more i sit in on, the more i understand. personally i don’t like the webcamming during the meeting but on the other hand a running commentary was forthcoming as the chair read the comments coming up which served to keep the meeting in focus.
pre-publishing the agenda did help in prep for the meeting - i’m going to keep an eye out for the next one and hopefully suggest this as a ‘what to include in info for etsy members’ point during the next chatt
April 27th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
If you have a change to visit a virtual town meeting, please do, and get a first hand experience of how not to communicate. Perhaps this one will have an agenda and an objective? That would be very nice, and to publish the agenda before the meeting.
Setting rules for discussion would also help, since all other meetings usually follow Roberts Rules and that’s how they get things done, with an agenda and an objective.
April 27th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
the next chatt with matt is scheduled to be about communication with sellers (next friday 12noon etsy-time in the treehouse virtual labs)
comments there would be appreciated too if you can attend
April 26th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Yes, the 2 News email do show that Etsy is out of touch with 99% of sellers, but the underlying issue is, they probably have little interest in changing the tone or intent at this point. My impression is they think we are all 6 years old.
The danger-of-spam thing has gotten out of hand, but their employees are also guilty of sending unwanted convos and emails. So, as usual, they started it, just like they started a rather suspicious, negative tone that overtakes the Forums at least once a week.
Etsy always goes over the top when any action requires scolding, and “forum decorum” ditties, but I take note that Etsy is the one who usually takes a negative tone in ALL communications with sellers—-now, there are just 60 people doing it instead of only 5.