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<div dir="auto">Dear Klaus,<br />
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If you look at the public recording of the more recent meeting of the Board of Trustees you will see that we deeply discussed the point. As a former Chapter President I agree on the challenges and frustration chapters are facing. Even, the number of ideas that arise from chapters are amazing. However, I can still not clearly identify why are solutions not arising at the pace we would like. We should keep opening tickets as we were told that everyone is taken care. <br />
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Luis<br />
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<div class="matchFont">Prof. Luis M MartÃnez Cervantes, PhD, MSc, BScEE, MIEE Professor and researcher Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City Member of the Board of Trustees Internet Society</div>
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<div name="messageReplySection">On 15 Mar 2024 7:51 -0600, Klaus Birkenbihl via Chapter-delegates <chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org>, wrote:<br />
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<p>Dear Christine,</p>
<p>its always the same song (as I said since 2015 and before - I still have documents available): people complain, ISOC - maybe - collects requests. Instead of taking those requests and complains serious, ISOC comes up - time by time - with a feature monster that was sold by an agency that neither understands what ISOC is about nor has any idea of the context in which their product will be used. I gave some examples - and others and I can show you more - basic operations are complex or impossible, usability is not given.</p>
<p>Thanks to the wisdom of Salesforce I need a tutorial to send E-Mails to a list of Chapter members (if I'm allowed to do so), it takes effort, time and learning to do things that should be intuitive by state of the art. Sorry, as long as user needs and common basic requirements are ignored boldly, I'm not interested in advances like the "ability to type customized subject lines". (Users of E-Mail can do this since 1982 [RFC 822] or even before.) This all is simply insane.</p>
<p>And since all attempts of others and myself to help were obviously ignored over many years I'm no longer part of the game.</p>
<p>My AMS usage policy: I'll provide AMS-help or whoever is interested to have a valid list of Chapter members within AMS with all data required. I'll leave it up to you how to use this data (I neither have the time and often not even the authorization to feed this data into AMS). Other usage of AMS will be avoided afap.<br /></p>
<p>Best regards<br /></p>
<p>Klaus<br /></p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Christine Saegesser wrote on 15.03.24 12:08:<br /></div>
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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space">Dear Klaus,
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<div class="">Please see my message from earlier this week highlighting some of the recent system improvements attached to this message. </div>
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<div class="">As mentioned on this list and in conversations with the Chapters Advisory Council, the transition to the new AMS was made in December 2023 and the team is now working on continuously improving the functionality to allow for a smoother user experience overall. Please watch out for the system release notes on the<span class="" style="font-family:Hind-Regular"> </span><a href="https://community.internetsociety.org/s/group/0F9UO00000001Tx0AI/community-portal-updates" class="" style="font-family:Hind-Regular" moz-do-not-send="true">Community Portal Updates Chatter Group</a> as well as related messages on this list that will highlight some of the developments implemented in response to issues submitted by the chapter community. </div>
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<div class="">Let me just also point out that we are in a separate conversation with you with regards to the particularities related to the list of member records of the Germany chapter and are doing our best to help your chapter sort this out. </div>
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<div class="">And, as is the case for all chapter leaders, for any individual challenges that you may encounter, please continue submitting these via <a href="mailto:AMSHelp@isoc.org" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">AMSHelp@isoc.org</a>. In addition, and as is currently the case for the Germany chapter, our Community Engagement Managers are happy to help. You can reach them via <a href="mailto:chapter-support@isoc.org" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">chapter-support@isoc.org</a>.</div>
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<div class="">If there are topics that are of concern to a larger part of our chapter community which you feel need to be addressed differently, please do let your chapter’s <a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/chapters/chapters-advisory-council/list-of-representatives/" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">Chapters Advisory Council representative</a> know so that this can be brought to the attention of the Chapters Advisory Council. </div>
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<div class="">On 15 Mar 2024, at 10:49, Klaus Birkenbihl via Chapter-delegates <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<p class="">Hello Delegates,</p>
<p class="">[Of course I notice that the focus of discussions is on other - more serious? - issues. But in terms of persistence and resilience as an issue AMS will stay - as it stayed over years now.]<br class="" /></p>
<p class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">So good news: end of 2023 our precious "MemberNova initiative" (the older ones might remember: this was an ISOC working group launched by ISOC in March 2020) gave birth to a new AMS. No longer "Membernova" but "Fonteva by Sales Force" now! In fact this happened without a single meeting and without any activity of the "MemberNova initiative" - so lets just call it a miracle. It is still AMS and so I'm proud to proclaim that the former "Membernova initiative anniversary day" on 15th of March has become the new "AMS celebration day".<br class="" /></font></p>
<p class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">As you may have noticed before one of the main achievements of</font> <font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">"Fonteva by Sales Force" is to "make simple things complex again" (if not completely impossible, see below). I gave an example before wrt. sending mails to your Chapter members. To mark the AMS celebration day I think another example is due.</font></p>
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<p class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Recently I wanted to tell "</font><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Fonteva by Sales Force" that 11 individuals that it lists as members of our Chapter are no Chapter members. According to best practices you might think of this as a simple procedure:</font></p>
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<li class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">let "Fonteva by Sales Force"</font> <font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">list the page with your "Active Group Members" members (1 wait for the list; wait ::= wait for server to respond)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">pick and check the 11</font> <font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">individuals that are no longer members (11 clicks - no wait)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">select "terminate membership" from a bulk actions list/drop down</font> <font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">(1 or 2 clicks)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">confirm operation on a pop-up (1 click - usually a local operation, no wait)</font></li>
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<p class="">in total: 14 clicks, 1 wait for the members list).</p>
<p class="">Of course there is room for more activity. And <font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">"</font><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Fonteva by Sales Force" enforces it. Let's start like above.</font></p>
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<li class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">let "Fonteva by Sales Force"</font> <font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">list the page with your "Active Group Members" (1 wait for the list).</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click on</font> the "Community Group Member ID" (not to confuse with the ISOC ID) for 1 terminated member. (1 click, 1 wait for the Community Group Member record page)</li>
<li class="">Click on the drop down in the first row, just one option - "Terminate" - appears (1 click)<br class="" /></li>
<li class="">Click on "Terminate" (1 click - Btw.: no confirmation required here!)<br class="" /></li>
<li class="">Click "<-" (aka Back) to get back to the <font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">"Active Group Members" page (1 click, 1 wait for the list)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">repeat steps 2 to 5 for the other 10 member terminations (10 * 5 = 60 clicks, 10 * 2 = 20 waits).</font></li>
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<p class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">(You can find the respective instructions on <a class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://communitytraining.internetsociety.org/training/terminate-chapter-membership/" moz-do-not-send="true">https://communitytraining.internetsociety.org/training/terminate-chapter-membership/</a>.)</font></p>
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<p class="">in total: 66 clicks, 22 waits for server response (apologies if I missed some).<br class="" /></p>
<p class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">So finally "Fonteva by Sales Force" (AMS) wins over "usable best practices" (bp)</font> <font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">with:</font></p>
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<li class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">66 clicks (AMS) vs 14 clicks (bp)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">21 waits (AMS)</font> <font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">vs 1 wait (bp)</font><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">. </font></li>
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<p class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Do you have members that registered with our Chapter locally? On next year's "AMS celebration day" I'll show you how you can register them</font> <font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">with AMS. Sorry, I cannot do this today. AMS doesn't allow Chapter Admins to do this. But next year, or maybe a few years later ... who knows?<br class="" /></font></p>
<p class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Finally before I forget:</font></p>
<div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">Via Chapter-delegates I wrote on 15.01.24 16:07:<br class="" /></div>
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<p class="">if you think <a class="x_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>
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<li class="">is meant seriously click <a class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext 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 class="" /></li>
<li class="">is a satire click <a class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext 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 class="" /></li>
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<p class="">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>
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<p class="">The final result (nip and tuck!) is available on <a class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext 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 class="" /></p>
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<li class="">110 for "is meant seriously"</li>
<li class="">114 for "is a satire"</li>
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<p class="">Happy AMSing everybody</p>
Klaus
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