Showing posts with label email. Show all posts
Showing posts with label email. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Is Email Effective?

 It turns out a researcher at Illinois State University did a survey in 2019 of Illinois FSA personnel (CED's, DD's, etc.) which concluded:

The USDA Farm Service Agency replaced paper mailings with GovDelivery electronic communication in order to increase efficiency and reduce costs. This case study presents evidence from one state indicating a perception among local FSA officials that GovDelivery does not allow them to effectively serve their constituents. A gap in reliable rural Internet service and low usage of smartphones in place of rural broadband may contribute to the extremely low open rates for GovDelivery email notifications. Findings suggest that electronic-only communication does not allow the agency to effectively engage with farm owners, operators, and managers.
Boerngen, Maria A. “Efficiencyfectiveness of Paperless Communication from the USDA Farm Service Agency.” Journal of ASFMRA, 2019, pp. 27–32. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26872597. Accessed 13 July 2021.

Monday, August 03, 2020

Google Translate or Wikipedia and German Junk Mail?

The other day I was researching Gen. Hans Leyers, because my cousin and I were reading the novel "Beneath the Scarlet Sky" in which he is a main character.  There's little in English not related to the novel, so I went to the German version of wikpedia. I used Google Translate to convert the info there to English.  

Suddenly my junk mail folder has a lot of email from German sources--apparently junk emailers have some kind of link to wikipedia.de or Google Translate.