[Chapter-delegates] Chapters & Wordpress themes

[Klaus Birkenbihl]

just to contribute to the list of WP based Chapter presences:
http://www.isoc.de/
which integrates communication and membership management.

Klaus

Joly MacFie wrote on 2011-06-05 20:18:
> 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
> 
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> 
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Khaled KOUBAA <khaled.koubaa at gmail.com
> <mailto: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
>     <http://www.isoc.org.tn> which is based on
>     Joomla
>     But our new website www.isoc.tn <http://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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