[Chapter-delegates] members.isoc.orgc

[Joly MacFie]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Zaid Ali <zaid at sfbayisoc.org> wrote:

> Joly, looks like we have the same challenges of having prospective chapter
> members join ISOC global. I have a detailed page on how to become a chapter
> member http://www.sfbayisoc.org/join, about a year ago


As do we Zaid, a little older but now updated.

So, in fact, http://www.isoc.org/join/ already works - who knew ? :)




> I had a hard time
> growing the chapter members because asking them just to go to ISOC website
> and become a member was confusing. I found that creating a join page and
> linking it to ISOC made the process simpler and also made it easier to grow
> our membership base.
>
>
I note that some chapters, such as Poland, still use their own sign up form,
and Puerto Rico don't mess around
they take you straight to paypal!!



> A suggestion I would like to make is if the new web development team of
> ISOC's website redesign could look into building an API for membership.
> This
> would make it simple for chapters to pass new members to ISOC.
>
>
I am sure this is already an ultimate aim of the AMS project. We must be
patient!



>  Zaid
>
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