<div dir="ltr">Hello everyone,<div><br></div><div>We are in the process of automating the Canada Chapter's membership application system using CiviCRM and Paypal, as we will be charging annual dues similar to some other chapters.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I would like to know if anyone at other chapters has tried to integrate the ISOC AMS with their own local membership database. We would like to simplify membership by having a single sign-up page that would enable someone to simultaneously obtain an ISOC Member ID and apply for membership in our chapter.</div>
<div><div><br></div><div>Alternately, are we as a chapter empowered to apply for membership on behalf of someone else, who has come to the Chapter site but does not yet have a global ISOC member ID?</div><div><br></div><div>
What I would like to avoid is a situation in which we turn away members because it's "too much trouble". We need to make it as easy as possible to attract members, and the three step process of </div><div><ol>
<li>Coming to our site to join<br></li><li>Being diverted to the AMS to create a membership and having to remember the ID<br></li><li>Coming back to the chapter site and using the new ID to apply for membership with us<br>
</li></ol></div><div>is IMO working against our ability to build membership. It is easy to complain that people should be able to persist through all those steps, but to me it is unacceptable to have barriers to membership that can be addressed using available technology.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any suggestions, and especially experiences from others who have encountered this issue, are extremely welcomed. </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div style="text-align:center">
<div style="text-align:left">Evan Leibovitch</div><div style="text-align:left">Toronto Canada</div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">
Em: evan at telly dot org</div></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Sk: evanleibovitch</div></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Tw: el56</div></div></blockquote>
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