Dpplr and Twitter are great tools, and the Sphere project is a great contribution to developing Chapter and Hq relationships.<br><br>But seems to me that while a few good people can be counted on the reach out (the people on this email thread are an example) what is needed is a lot of patient manual work, gently and consistently, reaching out to the ISOC and IETF rank-and-file about sharing and visiting. Also reaching out to their employers to move them to encourage their employees to participate.<br>
<br>A few good people will lead and participate.<br><br>I know how to get Joly and Fred Baker ... Franck Martin ... Alejandro ... etc. to support this. The challenge is to engage the average member to get in the habit of participating.<br>
<br>Solid membership-building in any organization takes time, lots of consistent work, and building a case why the average member should participate, and hopefully become excited with the benefits of doing so.<br><br>That is what I see as needing to be done. We need 500 people on Twitter or Doppler. Even more important, we need a facility for reaching out, over and over again, to the chapter members who are not paying attention, a way of announcing to ALL chapter members when someone is visiting, when an important event is taking place.<br>
<br>This is building from the ground up. Or course with the support of the Hq people.<br><br>The new ISOC Hq people are heading in the right direction ... Sphere, etc. ... of course much still to be done. Right now, most chapters have only a handful of active people. We need to work patiently to build that to a strong rank-and-file active membership. <br>
<br>That is what I propose doing. Not exciting. Not groundbreaking engineering. But needs doing, in my opinion.<br><br>Gene Gaines<br>VP, DCISOC - Washington DC ISOC Chapter<br>Sterling, Virginia USA<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Sebastian Ricciardi <<a href="mailto:sricciardi@fibertel.com.ar">sricciardi@fibertel.com.ar</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Dear friends,</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="EN-US">I donīt see why should we use other tools dopplr or whatever-.
Itīs simply a matter of keep the Chapters database updated and accessible by delegates.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="EN-US">Just as a matter of curiosity and make my point
who is the Chapter Delegate of ISOC.Ar in the database?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="EN-US">Best regards,</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="EN-US">Sebastian</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="EN-US">Sebastian Ricciardi</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="EN-US">ISOC.Ar</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org" target="_blank">chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org" target="_blank">chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Fred
Baker<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Viernes, 23 de Mayo de 2008 03:32 p.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> Franck Martin<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org" target="_blank">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a> Delegate<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Chapter-delegates] ISOC-AU in Sg and Th next week</div></span></p>
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<p>On May 23, 2008, at 6:03 AM, Franck Martin wrote:</p>
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<p><span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: black;">Ok I traced the bug, it is a
problem with the way the dopplr code is done. I have alerted the dopplr people,
I hope they can fix quickly</span></span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: black;"><br>
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<p>actually, I think there is a better solution.</p>
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<p>If you look at places where people's names show up, you will
find a link whose text is a question mark, and a few where clicking on the link
takes you somewhere. You might look at:</p>
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<p><a href="http://wiki.chapters.isoc.org/tiki-index.php?page=Rudi+Vansnick&bl" target="_blank">http://wiki.chapters.isoc.org/tiki-index.php?page=Rudi+Vansnick&bl</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://wiki.chapters.isoc.org/tiki-index.php?page=Fred+Baker&bl" target="_blank">http://wiki.chapters.isoc.org/tiki-index.php?page=Fred+Baker&bl</a></p>
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<p>I put a link to my dopplr entry in it; you could put our
dopplr badge if you prefer. The only issue with that is that it only tells
about the coming few weeks, where I have travel planned through 2010 and
presume that if I'm coming near someone they might notice and contact me.</p>
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