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Welcome
to the November 2000 Edition of
AOLM
Welcome
to the November issue of Amputation
Online magazine.
Well
folks sunset has finally arrived on
Amputation Online magazine, this is the
last issue in a web form at least. The
new year will see us in a subscribable
e-mail version only.
Its
been a wild ride since June 1996, lots
of ground covered, lots of people
interviewed, lots of praise and lots of
criticism.
Commercially
I was never under any illusions. For
the first year or so one advertiser
stuck with me and I must thank Paul
Prosowski at OandP online for
supporting the concept and sharing the
vision I had. When the advertisers came
it was somewhat of a relief, yet
keeping them was always harder than
publishing the magazine itself. I
sincerely thank all the advertisers for
their support over the last 5
years.
I'd
also like to thank every reader of
AOLM, the 3000 readers every month is a
significant accomplishment for a small
operation and although the number may
look small in light of the megasites
out there, it is far more than I ever
anticipated. I have always been a one
man operation. The responsibility was
always on my shoulders, I amazed myself
by keeping to my own schedule at the
worst of times.
Attending
the ACA events was an extremely
positive reward, attending the PandO
Annual conference in the same hotel in
Reno some months later was an eye
opener; the two should never be
together.
The
Future: There will always be a need
for first hand experience with amputee
issues. Generic disability web sites
such as wemedia and icanonline have
arrived on the scene, they have
extremely deep pockets, yet their
generic approach may not be specific
enough for many people, they have to
specialise if they are to survive. Yet
their very survival may spell the
downfall of many disability specific
web sites.
The
new year will this publication become
an email based newsletter. You can add
yourself on the mailing list via the
automated form below.
See
ya in 2001...!
Ian
Gregson
Editor and Publisher
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