<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div>Hello everyone:</div><div><br></div><div>At the Brussels-based chapter meeting a few weeks ago, I had discussed some of the changes coming to the current AMS Chapter Portal. I am happy to announce that those changes are now in place.</div><div><br></div><div>Many of the changes described below were direct requests from chapter leaders over the past six or so months, so thank you once again for the feedback. </div><div><br></div><div>Here is a summary of the changes:</div><div><br></div><div>1) <b>Changes to membership-information display.</b> There is now much more information shown to the member when he/she logs in. Once logged in, the member now immediately sees:</div><div><br></div><div>* Membership status </div><div>* Member since: <date></div><div>* Expiration date of membership if the member is Sustaining-level</div><div>* Lifetime ISOC donation level</div><div><br></div><div>2) <b>Limit on number of chapters one can indicate interest in. </b> On the "join a chapter" page, we found some individuals were checking all 75+ active chapters at the same time and clicking Submit. Therefore we placed a limit of four chapters per 24-hour period. The user now receives an error message if more are chosen within that timeframe. </div><div><br></div><div>3) <b>Review Applicants page</b> now issues an email alert to the main email address of each chapter when an individual indicates interest in joining that chapter. This was requested by several chapter officers. </div><div><br></div><div>4) <b>Review Applicants page</b> now gives more detailed results after submit, such as "3/3 records approved," and also lists the names (in alphabetical order) of those approved or denied by a given operation. Also, the Continue button now brings you back to that Review Applicants page, instead of redirecting you to the Chapter Roster.</div><div><br></div><div>5) <b>Review Applicants page</b> loads more quickly now, for those chapters with many outstanding applicants. The page will now show only 20 applicants at a time. Also, if your chapter has many applicants waiting for approval, please contact us at <a href="mailto:amshelp@isoc.org">amshelp@isoc.org</a>. We can provide a separate file for easier viewing if required (some chapters with 100+ outstanding applicants have requested this).</div><div><br></div><div>6) The <b>Add Members page</b> now contains an End Date field. This means chapter officers can select a different timeframe for membership aside from the default of 12 months. Previously this had required editing the new member's record after he/she had been added.</div><div><br></div><div>7) If an officer is the officer of only one chapter, the <b>Chapter Management menu item</b> will now take the officer directly to that chapter's Chapter Roster page.</div><div><br></div><div>8) <b>Ability for User to automatically retrieve Username from the password-reset page</b>. Also a slight redesign of this page so it is easier for users to now:</div><div><br></div><div>* Reset Password</div><div>* Retrieve Username (using the email address tied to the account)</div><div>* Create a new account/join ISOC</div><div><br></div><div>There are also now limits of three attempts for reset password and username retrieval within a 24-hour period.</div><div><br></div><div>9) <b>Change of the term User ID to Username</b>. This was requested by a chapter officer as he felt User ID (portal username) and Member ID (ISOC unique ID) were confusingly named. We agreed and we have changed User ID to Username on all pages of the portal. It will sometimes still exist at the URL level, however.</div><div><br></div><div>10) <b>Addition of chapter-address fields</b> to the emails that go out to chapter members indicating membership approval in that chapter.</div><div><br></div><div>11) <b>Frequently-asked Question (FAQ) section</b> on the portal, and ability to download user guides directly from the portal. This section is accessible to everyone without logging in. </div><div><br></div><div>12) More data fields are available: <b>Gender </b>and <b>Username</b> were both added to the My Account section</div><div><br></div><div>Please review these new-release changes and let us know what your experience is. While the open-source version of the chapter portal is still on the roadmap, we felt an update to the current portal was warranted based on the number of enhancement requests we had been getting. As usual, please send any further feedback to <a href="mailto:amshelp@isoc.org">amshelp@isoc.org</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks --</div><div><br></div><div>Lincoln McNey and the AMS team</div><div><br></div><div>PS - For many of the updates, translations are not yet complete - please bear with us for some of the new names and text to be migrated. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>Lincoln McNey</div><div>Sr. Manager, Systems Solutions</div><div>The Internet Society</div><div>+41.7986.33390</div><div><a href="mailto:mcney@isoc.org">mcney@isoc.org</a></div></div><div><br></div></div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>