newsletter, the
Welcome to the new version of our beloved . After almost a decade
of careful consideration, we have finally gone digital! Initially, conversations about this possibility focused on cost-effectiveness. However, the board decided that finances were not sufficient justification to warrant such a drastic change, and thus, we tabled this discussion. Luckily, DVI had an amazing editor, Sheila Amato, who worked tirelessly to secure the revenue needed to sustain a high caliber publication. (In fact, the
is of such exceptional quality that
people often mistake it for a practitioner journal instead of a newsletter).
When Sheila decided to retire as editor,
discussions resumed about the future direction of the . It was amazing how much things had changed
over a decade—what once was a novel concept had now become prevailing practice. While Sheila and her husband, Tony, had taken us into the digital era by publishing both a hard copy and an electronic copy of the
a multimedia publication was no longer practical for a variety of reasons. While finances definitely played a role, the shift in how society prefers to access information prompted the decision to suspend the
, we came to the realization that maintaining
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