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Vision Proposals

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=='''[[Communications Vision|Communications]]'''==
 
<li>The Society should work toward publishing the members newsletter on a monthly schedule, presuming sufficient funding and material enough for four pages are available.</li>
 
<li>The Society should conduct a survey to test the level of interest in publishing the members newsletter electronically, and a decision made about the value of devoting the time needed to reformat as HTML (versus publishing as a PDF file).</li>
 <li>The Society should reduce the publishing frequency of ''The [[Augustan Omnibus]]'' to annual; targeting 68 pages/issue minimum, until such time as the Society's finances and the rate of submissions are able to support an increased frequency.</li> 
<li>The Society should continue to publish ''[[Rosarum]]'', the newsletter of the [[Noble Company of the Rose]], at such frequency and size as that group is able to support with copy and funding.</li>
 
<li>The Society should publish additional volumes of the [[Augustan Society Roll of Arms]] as registrations permit.</li>
 
<li>The Society should reprint the first three volumes of the [[Augustan Society Roll of Arms]] in color.</li>
 
<li>The Society should publish special Rolls for [[Sub-Groups]] of the Society, such as the [[Noble Company of the Rose]], as those Sub-Groups request.</li>
 
<li>The Society should monitor and update the [[Main Website]] on an ongoing basis to ensure that it remains complete and correct.</li>
 
<li>The Society should monitor and update the [[Online Store]] website on an ongoing basis to ensure that the offerings are complete and correct; that they have full contents data; that the genealogical titles have surname lists; and that pricing reflects current costs.'''</li>
 
<li>The Society should establish an online forum in some suitable venue, possibly the [[Main Website]], wherein public conversations about the Society and Augustan topics are encouraged, as soon as a moderator and suitable rules may be established.</li>
 
<li>The Society should convert all former publications to electronic form; first as PDF files, then as text files with improved illustrations where possible.</li>
 
<li>The Society should create independent issues of back issues published as part of the ''Augustan Society Ominbus'' so that they may be sold separately.</li>
 
<li>The Society should continue to offer [[Reprints]], creating and expanding reprints on a topical basis. Single-article reprints should be phased out as stock is exhausted.</li>
 
<li>The Society should institute a program of book publishing, both leveraging the material already on hand and inviting original work.</li>
 
<li>The Society should publish the ''Guide to Orders of Chivalry'' and see that it is updated as necessary.</li>
 
<li>The Society should obtain an email server that is tailored to the unique needs of the Society. This may be a commercial product, or a custom application running on a Society server.</li>
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