Snail Mag?

[Deleted]

;D I have thought of a idea that we should do a weekly magazine about land snails!

Each week we could write about different people on the petsnails forum and how there snails are getting on

I was just wondering if people like the idea and how you would be able to publish a mag?

Thanks

[lee2211]

I thought this website used to do a news letter where people wrote articles, may be wrong though.
I think weekly'd be pushing it, maybe monthly to give enough time to plan and sort everything out possibly.

[brgwnth]

Haha. Imagine the birth announcements page. -Taran

[Deleted]

yeah monthly or every 2 weeks, omg birth anouncments would eb every decade lol

[rosanna123]

i really like the idea

[lee2211]

Haha, but yeah, it's a good idea.
Hopefully one of the mods'll come along soon and give us the go ahead.
But like I say, I'm positive that something like this was done on here before.

[rosanna123]

i do thin it would aslo be cheaper if we were to do it by e-mail even though if i was me i would want to do it by post (i like doing things the hard way lol). so what would be in this news letter if we did get the go ahead

[lee2211]

I think we should ask some mods what used to be in it, we could get ideas on how they did it and start running it again.

[Deleted]

If it was me i would put in articles of how everyone is getting on

[lee2211]

What do you mean of how everyone is getting on?

[Deleted]

I would put in articles that people have given me, saying if they had brought new snails and how there snails are getting on. Also we could include if anyone is selling there snails

[Paul]

There was only every one issue unfortunately. It can be found here:

www.petsnails.co.uk/IGS/

If people have the time to do it, I'll be happy to place it on-line and maintain a email list if that is necessary.

[crossless]

We had some kind of snail magazine in my country, but people did it only few numbers.. I think it would be better to think first which subjects would be nice articles in that mag. Then make really many many articles ready and save them. That way you would have always something to publish so some articles could be just in case if there's not much worth of publish when mag should come out. In our country that mag didn't succeed because lack of articles and ideas..

So mostly good mag could come so that you would write material from every subject and then just see if they match theme of current mag so it would be easier to put together. If some article wasn't good enough to published just save it to the future and publish it some other time.

One way to publish that mag would be do it with free homepage or some kind of blog.

[lee2211]

Oh right,
well, we could ask people to write articles, and people could update us if they have new uncommon species, give us care info ect ect..

[coyote]

I think a blog idea is one worth exploring.

First you need to define your readership before any articles are written. Are you aiming for the hobbyist snail keeper, the biology student, the generalist nature lover? Do you want the articles to have technical information (anatomy details, how the snail's body functions)? Do you want care guidelines (proper substrates, food, etc)? Do you want a large picture gallery?

Once you can figure out these questions, it will be easier to start collecting articles, because people will have a better idea of what to write about and how technical or non-technical to make them.

[Deleted]

I feel it should be non-technical

[brgwnth]

the cost to that would be phenomenally big though.

[crossless]

I think best would be have target readers are snail keepers and mag could have some beginner section too. Like example different articles in every number and some help to example how to get nice caring routines going on, how you could build up nice set up or good base for healthy diet for snails and what you need to be aware of between diffenrent species needs. Some reviews about some good and helpful equipment what some keeper would like to recommend to everyone. Every mag could have specific titles always and then every number could have some extra articles about special theme of current mag.

If publishingwould be like every week and it would be in form of blog it's would not need so much articles to publish more often mag would come that easier would be just publish everything and easier to read if issues are not just text page after page.. So it could come often too and few articles or them not so often with more text.

[lee2211]

It wouldn't cost too much if we only did it monthly

[cepealove]

Wow two of my most loved subjecs snails and media. Haha, Firstly youd need a team of 4 people that together can cover all aspects of snail knowledge. You could do a poll so members could vote a member of the month, then do a feature on them? A whats new feature that covers new snails,eggs and discoveries? A new member page with a warm welcome and a bit about the new members? Snails in the news. Snail species of the month, again selected by poll. . . Plenty more ideas x

[lee2211]

^ I nominate you to be in charge

[cepealove]

As much as id love to i dont know all that much about snails. I would be more than happy to help. Im limited on internet resources to .ie im on mobile phone internet. I have plenty of ideas just poke me in the eye when the go ahead is given x x x

[Deleted]

Thanks cepealove that was just what I was thinking

[lee2211]

Well, you could run things, get a structure, and we fill in the information.

[cepealove]

I would have speak to any mods that give this the go ahead, And of course laurencejordan. It would take a month at least for planning this x