[Chapter-delegates] ISOC-ZA new website

[Marcin Cieslak]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Khaled KOUBAA wrote:

> Hi,
> Excellent work indeed.
> But this bring up the question of chapter website conformity to the ISOC 
> Identity Guidlines ( 
> http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/identity/docs/identity_guidelines.pdf ) that 
> gives some guidlines specially in term of chapter logo.
> I am not speaking here only about ISOC ZA web site, but a big number of 
> chapter have not yet adopted those guidelines in their communication 
> material.

I think there is an ongoing discussion how should chapters apply
the guidelines. TThere are some arguments for (like using uniformity)
and against (like promoting diversity). For example, please see
list of followers on the Lynn's twitter account:

http://twitter.com/lynnstamour

Having everyone unified looks strange - at least in conjunction with
the Web 2.0 avatarmania. T

The guildelines do not seem to address the issue of 80px x 80px
icons used in online profiles of all sorts).  They also does not
address the issue of ISOC pins (we have distributed quite a lot of
them) that seem to violate non-separation rule (I think pins are
right).

Some reasonable middle ground is imho necessary, for example
- we are using a modified version of the original logo (that's usually
a no-no in a corporate identity world but we find it cool AND
we have got permission to do that);
- we are have copied ISOC's business card design (bar logo);
- we used to follow the isoc.org website design (we are
   still using the previous skin, don't know are there any
   immediate plans to have new isoc.org look?)

--Marcin