The close-off date of a readers' survey on the future of the national HIV positive people's publication Collective Thinking has been delayed a month, to February 28th. The survey, published within the magazine and posted online in December, was organised after the editorial control of Collective Thinking was publicly questioned along with concerns about its being published by the NZ AIDS Foundation. In addition, plans developed by the NZAF to take the publication online and to drop the printed version as part of a strategy to place more emphasis on online resources appeared to stumble after a formal request for proposals was circulated in January last year. Eamonn Smythe The NZAF says it conferred with HIV positive peoples' peer support organisations Body Positive and Positive Women before extending the closing date. "This is in order to allow sufficient time for their membership to respond to the Collective Thinking survey," according to Eamonn Smythe, NZAF Director Positive Health. "This offers more people the opportunity to tell us the direction they would like Collective Thinking to take.” Though asked, the Foundation did not say how many responses the survey, which was available in the hard copy version of Collective Thinking and also online, had prompted by the January 28 initial close-off date, nor give the proportions of responses each media had generated. It says that information will be available after the new close-off date. You can discuss this New Zealand glbt community news story in the GayNZ.com Forum.
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Saturday, 5th February 2011 - 1:27am