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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Thanks for your email,
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/15/24 10:07, Klaus Birkenbihl via
Chapter-delegates wrote:<br>
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<p>tl;dr:</p>
<p>if you think <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://communitytraining.internetsociety.org/training/send-email-as-chapter-leader/?locale=de"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://communitytraining.internetsociety.org/training/send-email-as-chapter-leader/</a></p>
<ul>
<li>is meant seriously click <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://isoc.de/isoc-training-send-email-as-chapter-leader-is-meant-seriously.php"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://isoc.de/isoc-training-send-email-as-chapter-leader-is-meant-seriously.php</a><br>
</li>
<li>is a satire¹ click <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://isoc.de/isoc-training-send-email-as-chapter-leader-is-a-satire.php"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://isoc.de/isoc-training-send-email-as-chapter-leader-is-a-satire.php</a>
<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>To express a strong opinion you may of course vote more than
once. Results of the voting will be published on this list by
2024-03-15 (the annual AMS celebration day). <br>
</p>
<p>---------------------- more<br>
</p>
<p>Hi folks,</p>
<p>admitted I feet guilty. Guilty, because I carelessly considered
all the dark rumors about the new AMS aka Fontera by Salesforce
to be true. I was confused by the fact that ISOC mandated its
membership administration to a monster agency that is big in
marketing, sales, and customer (of course artificial)
intelligence (aka "know more about your customer than she
herself"). Somehow this appeared to me like a perversion of some
of ISOC's core values.</p>
<p>By accident - luckily enough - I clicked on the following
tutorial:</p>
<ul>
<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://communitytraining.internetsociety.org/training/send-email-as-chapter-leader/?locale=de"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://communitytraining.internetsociety.org/training/send-email-as-chapter-leader/?locale=de</a></li>
</ul>
<p>This is an excellent example of many of the improvements that
we can only have with Fontera by Salesforce. (The page is open
to the public - so to say a donation of wisdom from ISOC to the
world.) It educates chapter leaders on how to send an E-Mail to
their members. </p>
<p>You might argue that this should be an easy task - not much
room for improvements:</p>
<ol>
<li>open your favorite mail client > new message</li>
<li>> fill: </li>
<ol>
<li>To:<members-mailing-list>@<chapter-domain></li>
<li>Subject: <subject></li>
<li>and <contents> to the mail body</li>
</ol>
<li>> click: send.</li>
</ol>
<p>But this has significant drawbacks. Some of them:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>its incredibly simple - leaves your brain unchallenged<br>
</li>
<li>maybe every Chapter member can use it<br>
</li>
<li>outcome from 2.: Chapter members can group communicate with
each other</li>
<li>neither Salesforce nor ISOC can grab any data or even
metadata<br>
</li>
<li>...</li>
</ol>
<p>Good we can learn how to do it right with the help of Fontera
by Salesforce. Let's take our first steps into this brave new
world. Many thanks to ISOC for this outstanding tutorial:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>The page claims to be available in Deutsch, Português,
Español, Nederlands, Italiano, dansk, 日本語, English,
Français</li>
<li>after choosing any target language, the page <span
class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz"><span
class="ryNqvb">spontaneously </span></span></span>translates
(just) a few headers, obviously using the first pre-medieval
machine translation program<br>
</li>
<li>only "two designated communication officers" are allowed to
send mails</li>
<li>you will learn about "Campain" - creating one is a
prerequisite for sending a mail<br>
</li>
<li>you will learn about "Journey" - you have to link the
Campaign to a Journey to send the mail<br>
</li>
<li>you have to be very careful not to change the - whatever
this is - "Business Unit"</li>
<li>this done, you can create the message ( Chapter Emails >
Email Campaign ...)<br>
</li>
<li>there is a wise distinction between mails to "200 members or
less" and "more than 200 members" - so please count carefully<br>
</li>
<li>obviously it prevents Chapter Leaders from skylarking while
spending their time sending mails to their members</li>
<li>...</li>
</ol>
<p>Sorry I'm moved and overwhelmed by the fine web of terms, the
beauty of the process and this intuitive guidance. Hallelujah! I
saw the lights! But I got tears in my eyes - so I have to stop
here. Maybe some experts for usability or accessibility can
cover more highlights - given that ISOC is leading in
emphasizing the importance of accessibility and ease of use (at
least for the rest of the world).</p>
Looking forward to a great year 2024 - long live Fontera by
Salesforce!<br>
<p>Klaus</p>
<p>PS.: you may think this mail is a satire¹. Easy guess! But what
about<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://communitytraining.internetsociety.org/training/send-email-as-chapter-leader/?locale=de"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://communitytraining.internetsociety.org/training/send-email-as-chapter-leader/</a>
?</p>
<p>if you think <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://communitytraining.internetsociety.org/training/send-email-as-chapter-leader/?locale=de"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://communitytraining.internetsociety.org/training/send-email-as-chapter-leader/</a></p>
<ul>
<li>is meant seriously please click<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://isoc.de/isoc-training-send-email-as-chapter-leader-is-meant-seriously.php"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://isoc.de/isoc-training-send-email-as-chapter-leader-is-meant-seriously.php</a><br>
</li>
<li>is a satire please click<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://isoc.de/isoc-training-send-email-as-chapter-leader-is-a-satire.php"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://isoc.de/isoc-training-send-email-as-chapter-leader-is-a-satire.php</a>
<br>
</li>
</ul>
To express a strong opinion you may of course vote more than once.
Results of the voting will be published on this list by 2024-03-15
(the annual AMS celebration day).
<p>Off topic: I have an account with internetsociety.org. It
worked with "admin.internetsociety.org" and
"sso.internetsociety.org" before. Now "auth.internetsociety.org"
says "Invalid username or password". But - upon request - it
says: "A verification code has been sent to your email address
(2024-01-15)" (there is hope!). And sometimes (2024-01-14) it
sends (sent?) a verification code. Unfortunately this code never
worked. 🙁</p>
<p>¹<i>satire: trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and
discredit vice or folly </i>(quote from merriam-webster)<br>
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Klaus Birkenbihl
Internet Society German Chapter (ISOC.DE) e.V.
c/o ict-Media GmbH
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