The NMI monthly newsletter (hinz-nmi-newsletter) is produced as a slightly hacky template within the eHealth Forum. Once complete, it is ‘published’ to #ciln:nmi.
As the entire @NMI group is set to be Watching that tag, they are all sent a notification when this is done. If they have their email preferences set so that they get emails for these (this is the default), then they will receive the newsletter as an email notification.
So basically all 255 nursing and midwifery members of the eHealth Forum (i.e. @NMI) should receive it. The true number will of course be somewhat less as some will have opted out of emails, no longer have access to the email they registered with, have it going straight to their spam folder, etc, etc.
If someone would like to dive deeper, and perhaps chase the ‘lost’ souls, I’d be delighted to support them in this.
Yes - here is an example survey that I whipped up as a demo for @NAHSTIG-council last year produced with the Custom Wizard Plugin:
https://ehealthforum.nz/w/nahstig-council-eoi
It isn’t as user-friendly as dedicated tools like Survey Monkey, but does the job nicely and means that you can utilise existing data from the eHealth Forum database to supplement it (e.g. email address, engagement, profession, membership of groups, etc).
We can also do simple polls embedded in a Topic (such as the Newsletter) - these can be quite sophisticated. There is also a new/experimental plugin which allows a survey to be embedded into a Topic; however, free text answers will need to be accommodated somehow.
Here is an overview about the tools available: