[Chapter-delegates] ISOC-AU in Sg and Th next week

[Gene Gaines]

Dpplr and Twitter are great tools, and the Sphere project is a great
contribution to developing Chapter and Hq relationships.

But seems to me that while a few good people can be counted on the reach out
(the people on this email thread are an example) what is needed is a lot of
patient manual work, gently and consistently, reaching out to the ISOC and
IETF rank-and-file about sharing and visiting.  Also reaching out to their
employers to move them to encourage their employees to participate.

A few good people will lead and participate.

I know how to get Joly and Fred Baker ... Franck Martin ... Alejandro ...
etc. to support this.  The challenge is to engage the average member to get
in the habit of participating.

Solid membership-building in any organization takes time, lots of consistent
work, and building a case why the average member should participate, and
hopefully become excited with the benefits of doing so.

That is what I see as needing to be done.  We need 500 people on Twitter or
Doppler.  Even more important, we need a facility for reaching out, over and
over again, to the chapter members who are not paying attention, a way of
announcing to ALL chapter members when someone is visiting, when an
important event is taking place.

This is building from the ground up.  Or course with the support of the Hq
people.

The new ISOC Hq people are heading in the right direction ... Sphere, etc.
... of course much still to be done.  Right now, most chapters have only a
handful of active people.  We need to work patiently to build that to a
strong rank-and-file active membership.

That is what I propose doing.  Not exciting.  Not groundbreaking
engineering.  But needs doing, in my opinion.

Gene Gaines
VP, DCISOC - Washington DC ISOC Chapter
Sterling, Virginia USA


On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Sebastian Ricciardi <
sricciardi at fibertel.com.ar> wrote:

>  Dear friends,
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> I don´t see why should we use other tools – dopplr or whatever-. It´s
> simply a matter of keep the Chapters database updated and accessible by
> delegates.
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> Just as a matter of curiosity – and make my point – who is the Chapter
> Delegate of ISOC.Ar in the database?
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> Best regards,
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> Sebastian
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> Sebastian Ricciardi
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> ISOC.Ar
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> *From:* chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org [mailto:
> chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] *On Behalf Of *Fred Baker
> *Sent:* Viernes, 23 de Mayo de 2008 03:32 p.m.
> *To:* Franck Martin
> *Cc:* chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org Delegate
> *Subject:* Re: [Chapter-delegates] ISOC-AU in Sg and Th next week
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> On May 23, 2008, at 6:03 AM, Franck Martin wrote:
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>  Ok I traced the bug, it is a problem with the way the dopplr code is
> done. I have alerted the dopplr people, I hope they can fix quickly
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> actually, I think there is a better solution.
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> If you look at places where people's names show up, you will find a link
> whose text is a question mark, and a few where clicking on the link takes
> you somewhere. You might look at:
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> http://wiki.chapters.isoc.org/tiki-index.php?page=Rudi+Vansnick&bl
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> http://wiki.chapters.isoc.org/tiki-index.php?page=Fred+Baker&bl
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> I put a link to my dopplr entry in it; you could put our dopplr badge if
> you prefer. The only issue with that is that it only tells about the coming
> few weeks, where I have travel planned through 2010 and presume that if I'm
> coming near someone they might notice and contact me.
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