thought you all might like to read this!
Cindy
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Subject: RE: The Bottle Graphic Has Been Changed!
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:01:57 -0500
From: [log in to unmask] (Robert Ginsberg)
To: [log in to unmask]
To all the Lactation Consultants who have been writing us:
Our Website, Safe @ Home, has been enjoying amazing success for over a
year
now. We have never, until recently, received a single comment or
complaint
regarding out bottle feedback graphic. Your organization has chosen to
harass us into changing our bottle graphic, claiming it will encourage
bottle feeding. We wish to stress to all lactation advocates, that our
site is strictly set up to educate people on issues relating to safety.
However, we are not interested in controversy.
We do not wish to take up any more valuable time dealing with matters
totally unrelated to our Website. Therefore, we have changed our bottle
graphic to a mailbox and hope THIS doesn't offend anyone!
We hope the lactation consultants and their supporters will celebrate
this
great victory, and move onward to more worthy targets.
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Karin Biswas wrote: "i think it should be changed to something more
neutral
or you'll have a boycott on your hands. just thought you should be
filled
in. too bad your site cant be enjoyed. and what does a bottle have to do
with feedback anyway??"
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Karen Nelson wrote: "Given the fact that your website is devoted to the
health and well being of infants and children this is certainly a
serious
flaw in the page design and something I am sure you are anxious to
correct."
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Dr. Jack Newman wrote: "I was surprised and discouraged by your use of a
baby bottle as a prominent graphic. I realize this is meant to be
clever
in association with "feedback"."
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Cindy Curtis wrote: "I think your site is a wonderful and useful site.
But
I was dismayed to see the bottle graphic on the feedback page."
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Mardrey Swenson wrote: "You say that the baby feeding bottle represents
feedback. Now, I do not want to appear dense, but I couldn't begin to
imagine what you meant by that! I even looked the word feedback up in
the
medical as well as the regular english language dictionary for clarity.
I
thought to myself, "A bottle has absolutely NO feedback.
The way to avoid people like me thinking about all this and instead
allowing us to concentrate on the real value of all the work you have
put
into this marvelous site would be to select another logo for your
Feedback
option on your site."
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Audrey Trenholme wrote: "My only complaint is that you have used a
bottle
logo. I'm so tired of seeing these devices used as symbols. How about a
different one, almost anything will do EXCEPT THE ROSS BEAR!"
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Joan MacNeil wrote: "Primarily, I want to compliment you on your
marvelous
site, 'Safe @ Home'. The information here is extremely helpful to
families
and is organized in a user-friendly manner. Your expertise in this area
is
clear."
Now that our bottle graphic has been changed, and Karin Biswas is not
concerning herself with thoughts of boycotts - and is sleeping much
better
these days thank you very much, why not provide a link to our site so
that
parents can protect their children from preventable accidents. You
can't
breastfeed an infant if that infant dies needlessly. If your cause is
for
better nutrition and safety for children, then promoting our site would
be
beneficial for everyone.
Think about it.
For Barbara Sklar, R.N.
Robert Ginsberg
Website Manager
Safe @ Home: http://www.safebaby.net
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CC:
Karin Biswas, [log in to unmask]
Karen Nelson, [log in to unmask]
Dr.Jack Newman, [log in to unmask]
Cindy Curtis, [log in to unmask]
Mardrey Swenson, [log in to unmask]
Audrey Trenholme, [log in to unmask]
Joan/Robin MacNeil, [log in to unmask]
Louise Dumas, [log in to unmask]
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