When Will We Start To Get Information?

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Originally posted by Mark
If you haven't it should have been available for download/print via PAAM for at least a week by the 13th July.

Talking the info packs (for all those reading this) - we're planning to pretty them up this year - make them read less like a white-paper. So adding photos, graphics, diagrams, printing as a booklet rather than stapled A4 pages. Any other ideas re how to improve the pack?

Do you find it useful?

Does it not cover an area you'd like it to? (we don't put the line-up in them as line-ups can change right up until the last minute).

Have you ever read it?!

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A map of the whole site would be useful: showing facilities, campsites, toilets, bars etc..

Shift Pattern Plan/Times..

In this current economic climate, would it not be best to eMail the info pack or at least an Email to advise staff that it is available on-line to download, rather than you preparing/producing a nice brochure type booklet at considerable cost, and the postage to addressees, which.. is already highlighting that some people will not be in a position to accept/receive postal copies. Therefore, those said copies being a waste.

My experience last year was that the info was available on-line for me to download and print, much sooner than when my hard copy arrived (which was only a day or two beforehand and not a week) so I had already downloaded and printed thinking that time was too tight for me to wait until hard copy was received. Therefore, I printed one and then received a printed one...that's two copies...i.e wastage.

There are also hubby and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend, brother and sister or even partner and partner teams going, therefore you'll be potentially sending out two copies to the same address... when only one would suffice.

Maybe, every staff member that has accepted their position, should download and print their own.

a) No expensive printing / binding / production costs for you.
b) No duplicate printing if timing is tight.
c) No mailing/postage costs.
d) No produced copies being sent out that will not be received.
e) No excuse for staff to have not received or had time to review.

Maybe you could print off a few (large size/laminated) for 'just in case' and they are available at log-in/registration \"for reference only - not to be removed from site office\" and maybe one or two in each 'campsite office', again.. \"for reference only....\".

In my opinion, whilst it was of some use, maybe only a little... the information in there was read out word for word at the briefing meeting, therefore, didn't make sense to me that all staff had to read, re-read and digest the information before arrival at the site and \"you will not have time to make yourself familiar with its contents once you have arrived on-site and registered\" proved incorrect, especially as there was a 'Q / A section' within the briefing talk.

I say, save the costs, don't produce a printed booklet, produce only a few A4 or A3 size that are stuck to the wall in office, or even on the fence/gate at the entrances to staff site; use the money that would have been spent for such production to improve the conditions for staff, maybe give them all a meal/beer voucher or two...

A highly produced booklet would in my opinion be a waste of money, how many people would actually keep theirs after the event...? More likely to be used as campfire fuel than recycled.