Dave,<div>Not sure the choice of North America director is of interest for all chapters, but I also hope that Mark will be working with other countries, not only USA and Canada. Would be good to hear which countries are within his region. </div><div>Also, he starts on May 2nd, not sure if he is reading this list :)<span></span></div><div><br>On Thursday, April 14, 2016, Dave Burstein <<a href="mailto:daveb@dslprime.com">daveb@dslprime.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Mark and folks</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Best of luck. ISOC is changing, I hope rapidly, to a bottom-up model, a good thing.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><h1 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:16px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:20px;font-weight:inherit">On Linked-in, you describe yourself as a </span></h1><h1 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:16px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:20px;font-weight:inherit">Senior public relations and policy professional</span><br></h1></div></div><div style="margin:2px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:17px;color:rgb(102,105,106);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><dl style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;display:inline"><dd style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;display:inline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?f_G=ca%3A4884&trk=prof-0-ovw-location" name="m_3048137201344016808_location" title="Find other members in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(102,105,106);font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit" target="_blank">Ottawa, Ontario, Canada</a></span></dd><dd style="margin:0px 0px 0px 5px;padding:0px 0px 0px 8px;border-width:0px 0px 0px 1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(187,187,187);font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;display:inline"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?f_I=98&trk=prof-0-ovw-industry" name="m_3048137201344016808_industry" title="Find other members in this industry" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(102,105,106);font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit" target="_blank">Public Relations and Communications</a></dd></dl></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">and on Twitter "<span style="color:rgb(41,47,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(245,248,250)">PR guy in the Internet governance world."</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(41,47,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(245,248,250)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#292f33" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(245,248,250)">which is very different than the job you've taken on, to support the chapters and members, both institutional and <a href="http://individual.in" target="_blank">individual.in</a> a bottom up multi-stakeholder organization. </span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#292f33" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(245,248,250)"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#292f33" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(245,248,250)">As soon as you hit the ground, let's hear from you at a Chapters' call how you're going to respond to the very different requirements of the new job. </span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#292f33" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(245,248,250)"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#292f33" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(245,248,250)">In particular, ISOC is already overloaded with communications professionals. Kathy Brown and Sally Wentworth are senior policy advocates who have the skills and connections to take care of business. (None dare call them lobbyists.) </span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#292f33" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(245,248,250)"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#292f33" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(245,248,250)">I sure I'm not the only one who hopes to hear your plans to move forward. </span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#292f33" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(245,248,250)"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#292f33" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(245,248,250)">ISOC has the potential to be very helpful, especially in connecting the poor in all countries. There are immediate issues in the U.S. and Canada that we should be taking the lead on. Let's make it so.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#292f33" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(245,248,250)"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#292f33" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(245,248,250)">Dave</span></font></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr">Editor, Fast Net News, Net Policy News and DSL Prime<br>Author with Jennie Bourne  DSL (Wiley) and Web Video: Making It Great, Getting It Noticed (Peachpit)</div></div>
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</blockquote></div><br><br>-- <br>Best,<br>Veni<br><a href="http://veni.com">http://veni.com</a><br><a href="https://facebook.com/venimarkovski">https://facebook.com/venimarkovski</a><br><a href="https://twitter.com/veni">https://twitter.com/veni</a><p>***<br>The opinions expressed above <br>are those of the author, not of <br>any organizations, associated <br>with or related to him in <br>any given way.<br>***<p><br>== Sent from my phone, so any spelling mistakes are caused by the touchscreen keyboard. Also, that's the reason for using short words and phrases. <br></p></p>