News at a Glance
E-mail Updates Show Significant Growth
As of June 2006 there were 15,407 subscribers to the weekly www.ucg.org Web site updates, a 44 percent increase over a year ago! This service provides users with the latest new items on the Church Web site. In addition, there are 8,682 people receiving UCG Member updates (a 13 percent increase), which gives members updates of Church news and other important developments.
Of interest to teens and young adults is the Vertical Thought magazine e-mail update that alerts them to new material posted at www.verticalthought.org. There are 1,903 current subscribers to this service (a 40 percent increase over a year ago).
Another exciting development is the number of Good News readers who are now signed up to receive the monthly "GN Reader e-Letter." At present there are 19,850—a very encouraging 59 percent increase. Samples of what GN readers have been getting can be seen at www.gnmagazine.org/gnupdate.
The latest e-news program is titled "This Is the Way" and goes to 3,176 readers—a 76 percent increase over a year ago. You can view samples of past items at www.thisistheway.org.