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

[Louis Houle]

Makes a lot of sense Gene,

The question for a small chapter is :«How (or where) can you find enough 
time to achieve that, to contribute ?»
Many chapters don't have a regular full time staff...

Louis Houle
Président
ISOC Québec



Gene Gaines a écrit :
> 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
>
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