SBJ.net Poll

If Springfield Business Journal were to offer a digital version of the weekly issues, with electronic pages mirroring their printed counterparts, would you choose that instead of paper? Why or why not?

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What Readers Think

Yes

I have to share a hard copy with several other people in my office. Sometimes, I don’t get to read it until a week after it arrives, and there may be time-sensitive information in it that I am missing out on. I use a lot of the information found in the SBJ in my everyday work. … I do get the Movers and Shakers e-mails, but it would be nicer to have the entire SBJ online to read page by page each week.

—Connie Kronholm, Missouri Career Center

I read SBJ for the information, so delivery of the information on paper or mailed to me is not critical. If we can save postage and some trees in the process, the digital version would work for me.

—Kris Norman, city of West Plains

I read your daily e-newsletter Daily Updates and special notices. However, I still have to read the printed copy to read the articles and see the images. … I also get to see the online version wherever I have Internet, instead of hoping the hard copy makes it to my desk while I travel. It also would cut down on resource waste and postage expense.

—Buck Van Hooser, Prestressed Casting Co.

It is more convenient for me. When I have a spare few minutes, I can log in, read what I have time to, and not have to carry around a copy of it.

—Chris Evans, Beimdiek Insurance Agency Inc.

Green, baby! Goin’ green.

—Dave Sharon, ISG Technology Inc.

While I love holding the paper in my hands and hearing the familiar rustle of the pages as they are turned, when I am finished, the paper makes a significant pile in my recycle bin. I am not convinced I need to contribute that much paper to Springfield’s recycling efforts. Bring on the digital format!

—Jerany Jackson, Springfield-Greene County Park Board

No

Not having the actual physical paper to touch would lose quite an impact. It’s hard to leave an electronic version on a coffee table for someone to read, right?

—Randy Baker, Corporate Business Systems

I love the idea of getting the digital copies for myself (and already do get a lot of the e-news Daily Updates), but we like to put the print copy in our lobby for our members to read, and also pass them around to all our employees. We would hate to lose that.

—Jenny Reynolds, CU Community Credit Union

I really enjoy reading through SBJ every Monday morning when I get to work. It is one of the few publications I actually take the time to sit down and read through, and the only reason I stop and do this is because I literally have it as a hard copy in front of me. No matter who comes into my office or what e-mails pop up on my screen or what projects I am working on, … I take the time to sit at my office and flip through it. I keep the back issues on a welcome table in my office and refer to them frequently for business names, key contacts and other community issues.

—Carrie Richardson, Ozarks Community Hospital

I do find the SBJ Daily Update e-mails useful and interesting, but to receive the entire publication electronically would be awkward. … I would have to be on the computer to read it, (and) I’m not in the evenings and weekends.

—Walter Squires, Trux Trailer & Tractor Inc.

I still enjoy the traditional, old-school format of newspaper reading. However, I would definitely use the electronic version as a resource, mainly for reference, for history and for sharing via e-mail news of noteworthy discussion.

—Jackie Barger, Make-A-Wish Foundation of Missouri

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