Mark Forster's Blog

Newsletter Archive Now Available

2012-05-11T14:26:16Z

You can now access the archive for the Final Version newsletter by using the “View our Archive” button underneath the subscription box in the right margin.

Q&A Session postponed

2012-04-21T22:01:45Z

Due to continuing demands on my time, I am having to postpone the Q&A session again. I’m not going to arrange a new date until things have settled down a bit.

New date for Q&A Session: April 23

2012-04-15T13:06:00Z

Due to personal reasons, I am having to postpone the Q&A Session conference call for a week. The new date is April 23. The time remains 8 p.m. UK Time.

I originally intended it to be a free session, but I wanted to limit the attendees to 20 so everyone on the call would have a chance to speak. Unfortunately past experience indicates that when a session is free of charge there is a tendency for people to book but not turn up. This prevents people who do want to attend from being able to. I’ve therefore decided to charge a nominal fee of £5 (approx US$8). This will have the additional advantage of testing my payment and booking procedures.

Booking will open in a few days. I will announce it on the blog and in my newsletter.

Final Version a great success!

2012-03-31T06:22:45Z

The Final Version has now gone out to over 4,000 subscribers and the feed-back has been uniformly good. It seems to have really caught people’s imagination.

I’m now in the process of writing the second issue of the Final Version newsletter which should be out in a few days.

Other projects which are featuring large in my FV list are getting the booking opened and other preparations finalized for the Q & A session on 16th April and drawing up a schedule of further teleconfence calls and seminars.

View from the verandah

2012-03-21T02:15:42Z

This is the view from the verandah (when it’s not raining) as I work on The Final Version in the depths of the Australian outback.

Free Q&A Session

2012-03-17T01:50:54Z

There will be a FREE Q&A Session about the Final Version by teleconference call on Monday April 16th at 8 pm (UK Time). Numbers limited to 20. Pre-registration will be required. Details soon.

More Holiday Tasks

2012-03-13T08:13:38Z

Here’s some more tasks residing on my holiday FV list:

Redesign the About page so it majors on FV [done]
Make the About page the Home page again [done]
Publish a schedule of teleconferences
Set up an ordering system for teleconferences
Plan further marketing
Continue to write book

Discussion Forums

2012-03-13T07:22:43Z

I have introduced a new discussion forum FV Forum solely for discussing issues related to the Final Version time management system. I’ve closed the Comments on the last two blog posts in order to direct comments to the Forum.

The existing forum has been renamed General Forum and is for issues related to time management in general and previous time management systems of mine.

For an experimental period both forums are accessed by Captcha - I hope this will be sufficient to keep spam to an acceptable level (i.e. none at all). If this doesn’t prove to be the case then I will have to re-introduce posting by registered members only.

I’m also for an experimental period removing moderation from blog comments and relying on Captcha only.

Final Version Instructions now issued

2012-03-13T00:29:23Z

If you have signed up for the Final Version newsletter, check your email. The first issue, which contains the full instructions for the new system, was issued at 10.30 a.m. Queensland time today March 13th to 2,007 subscribers.

If you haven’t already signed up, then you can do so by filling in the Subscribe Email Newsletter box in the right margin. Some people are finding the sign-on instructions a bit difficult to follow since they don’t mention the Final Version (I don’t have much control over the wording) - just answer every question positively!

I intend to send out the instructions at least once a day to new subscribers who missed the first distribution. Please be patient - this is not an autoresponder.

The Final Version is here!

2012-03-12T02:36:33Z

My long-awaited Final Version time management system is ready for release, and the good news is that it will be free of charge. I am starting a new newsletter for the purpose of distributing the initial instructions for the new system - and later on the newsletter will include in-depth articles about it.

To sign up for the Final Version newsletter, fill in the Subscribe Email Newsletter form in the right margin. If you are already a subscriber to my existing newsletter, you will be asked whether you want to update your profile. The answer is yes, you do!

Please note that the instructions will not be distributed in my existing newsletter, nor will they appear on this website, so if you don’t sign up you won’t receive them.

The instructions will be issued to all subscribers to the Final Version newsletter within the next few days.

Every issue of the newsletter will contain an Unsubscribe link, so you can unsubscribe even more easily than you subscribe.

(And btw the new system is called the Final Version not because it’s the final word on time management for all time, but because it’s definitely the final time management system that I will be producing!)