<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I believe it in internally managed. I have over the years asked for improvements. Minimal response. One thing that would be useful is the ability to enroll Chapter members into the Society without having to send them to the Website. The AMS also does not really require much in the way of information (i.e., permits enrollment without accuracy). There is no ability to track participation or collect responses. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">John More</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 12, 2017, at 11:36 AM, Seun Ojedeji <<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com" class="">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Okay if AMS is a paid service then I will say it does not strike me as a good value for money. Certainly not in this present technology era ;-)<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Few weeks ago I was trying to do approval for about 30 new applicants but the stuff broke on me and I had to do it in bits. So if AMS is a paid service, the provider needs to have critical look at its scalability and flexibility. Perhaps proper feature/bug reporting medium is a place to start.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Regards</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 Jun 2017 3:58 PM, "Carlos Vera" <<a href="mailto:cveraq@gmail.com" class="">cveraq@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""></div><div class="">Do we pay money for AMS?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Carlos Vera</div><div class="">Isoc Ecuador </div><div class=""><br class="">On Jun 12, 2017, at 12:36 AM, Joly MacFie <<a href="mailto:joly@punkcast.com" target="_blank" class="">joly@punkcast.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Winthrop's AMS comments resonate with me a great deal. And I recall looking over the financial report a few years back and being horrified at the the amount of money spent on it. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">As far as the current site goes, it would be helpful to have social media share links on blog posts and other items.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">j</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Winthrop Yu <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:w.yu@gmx.net" target="_blank" class="">w.yu@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> The AMS system is hardly perfect and it's showing its age. But it is somewhat usable, and we've (more or less) gotten used to it's quirks. I do worry that the cure will be worse than the problem. I agree with Maye that any replacement should be "light", not too many pretty bells and whistles, please. For me, "Convivial" is optional. :)<br class="">
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Nearly all of the complaints about AMS i've seen so far have been about the messaging/email sub-system. Yes it's clunky, formatting a message is what takes a lot of time. But if the cure were like "Connect", i'd avoid using that too.<br class="">
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Since, we use AMS messaging usually as a way of emailing notices out to a definitive list of chapter members, i'm wondering why a straightforward band-aid fix such as allowing the upload of a pre-formatted *.doc or other format file hasn't been tried?<br class="">
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P.S. And while i don't think one can "manage" social media channels from within an AMS, it would help if ISOC's communications were more social media friendly. To be fair, many of the articles and blogs now have a graphic or photo, so that a share on social media doesn't just display the logo or a thumbnail pic of the author. But, sometimes i still have to reformat before sharing an article from ISOC's official FB page, so it doesn't look too plain and boring (even if the actual content or copy is very well-written and interesting.)<span class=""><br class="">
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On 6/12/2017 1:19 AM, Maye Diop wrote:<br class="">
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Dear All<br class="">
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Thank for this opportunities.<br class="">
AMS portal is not convivial. I spent lot of time to send a mail to our members (more than 600).<br class="">
It will be usefull to have another light and convivial AMS.<br class="">
I'm working locally to set up a community manager to be able to manage SN Chapter's communication via social media. This will be more efficient to keep members informed about chapter's activities.<br class="">
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