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Op 13/02/2010 12:46, Joly MacFie schreef:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Zaid Ali <span
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looks like we have the same challenges of having prospective chapter<br>
members join ISOC global. I have a detailed page on how to become a
chapter<br>
member <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.sfbayisoc.org/join"
target="_blank">http://www.sfbayisoc.org/join</a>, about a year ago</blockquote>
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As do we Zaid, a little older but now updated.<br>
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So, in fact, <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="wiki external"
href="http://www.isoc.org/join/" rel="external">http://www.isoc.org/join/</a>
already works - who knew ? :)<br>
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I had a hard time<br>
growing the chapter members because asking them just to go to ISOC
website<br>
and become a member was confusing. I found that creating a join page and<br>
linking it to ISOC made the process simpler and also made it easier to
grow<br>
our membership base.<br>
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I note that some chapters, such as Poland, still use their own sign up
form, and Puerto Rico don't mess around<br>
they take you straight to paypal!!<br>
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Why shouldn't we not be allowed to have our own sign up form ? Do not
forget not everybody speaks English.<br>
And one of the basic principles of a chapter is to address the local
community. So I would suggest chapters will always be allowed to offer
local sign up forms.<br>
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suggestion I would like to make is if the new web development team of<br>
ISOC's website redesign could look into building an API for membership.
This<br>
would make it simple for chapters to pass new members to ISOC.<br>
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I am sure this is already an ultimate aim of the AMS project. We must
be patient!<br>
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And to be honest, the sign up form is not that sexy ... perhaps a
redesign of the sign-up page could be on the priority list...<br>
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Rudi Vansnick
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