[Chapter-delegates] Chapters & Wordpress themes

[Joly MacFie]

Hi Khaled

The Tunis site is very pleasing and elegant. Simplicity and spacing ease
comprehension greatly. As I said before I worry that ISOC will soon change
its look and hope that it maintains those qualities.

On the question of identity guidelines, this is a topic I have raised with
global on more than one occasion. And I'm always told that new guidelines
are on the way. Issues I have had with it are

1) that the 'name of chapter in blue below' style isn't satisfactory as when
the logo is reduced it becomes unreadable.

2) that the ' b/w chapter name to the side' style is too wide for many
practical uses.

3) that a square style is needed for icons and also mediawiki.

4) that there are inconsistencies in the color specs

(The latter is down to discrepancies between specs for printing on various
paper stocks and RGB hex for the web - these should be clarified)

Many chapters have taken matters into their own hands and made adjustments
to improve, Including ISOC Tunie. In fact it might be a nice exercise to
aggregate all the logos together on one page (with links back to the
respective sites) so we can see.

Another identity thing we should be aware of is that since a couple of years
back ISOC, while still OK, has been deprecated in favor of "Internet
Society" by Global.  Good use in any text is to use "Internet Society
(ISOC)" in the first instance, and then ISOC thereafter.

That said, I believe variety is the spice of life and like seeing individual
approaches.


On the sharing of information the ISOC newsletter (itself WP-based), and its
corresponding RSS have made great strides to close this gap. It's not the
problem it was.


As you say - it's important ISOC Chapter sites as the public representation
of the society be exemplary. It's difficult sometimes to do this and also be
a live ongoing information resource - which, unless constantly maintained,
will become dated. At the same time one wants to be directly engaged with
the community and timely coverage of issues will drive in traffic and
interest. Here at ISOC-NY I've got around this slightly by making the
primary site more of a static resource (needs a new design which is why I
raise the topic) and initiated a secondary site "the noticeboard"
http://isoc-ny/p2  as a more freewheeling blog style environment.

j







On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Khaled KOUBAA <khaled.koubaa at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
> Thank you Joly for bringing this issue up. I want to share with you the
> old version of our Tunisian chapter www.isoc.org.tn which is based on
> Joomla
> But our new website www.isoc.tn ( underconstruction ) will be be based on
> WP
> The other important question that I would to recall after seeing your
> websites is the ISOC Identity Guideline
> http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/identity/ which give some indication on
> brand identity of ISOC and its chapter.
> My personal point of view is that : No ISOC Chapters nor ISOC itself
> should be failing on matters like that ! Members and partners will look
> first to our websites, and they find them not using a unique identity,
> not talking about the same issues and not using the BEST OF THE BEST
> technology in the Internet world, I don't think that they will see us as
> serious organization.
> Khaled
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