[Chapter-delegates] Chapters & Wordpress themes

Mon Jun 6 05:21:13 PDT 2011

and to continue - a joomla based chapter web page - www.isocpr.org - which
integrates membership and events handling.

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On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Klaus Birkenbihl
<Klaus.Birkenbihl at isoc.de>wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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