[Chapter-delegates] Chapters & Wordpress themes

Joly MacFie joly at punkcast.com
Mon Jun 6 10:00:32 PDT 2011 

Very interesting, Christine.

I had no idea that a chapter WP template was already available. And I pay
attention to such things.

Will play with it.

j





On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Christine Saegesser <saegesser at isoc.org>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for bringing this up, as this is a very timely issue. As most of you
> probably know, the Internet Society will launch its new Drupal based website
> and new visual identity later this year. New web templates for Chapters will
> also be developed and will be made available to all Chapters after the
> relaunch of the refurbished Internet Society website.
>
> In order to keep you updated on these developments, my colleague Dan Graham
> from the communications department is happy to give you a quick overview of
> the current status as well as the next steps and would be interested in
> getting your feedback. We'll organize calls for the week of July 4th. We'll
> send options to you within the next few days.
>
> In the meantime, we would like to draw your attention to a WordPress
> template that has been developed for Chapters, but that still follows the
> old (current) look and feel:
> http://isoc.org/wp/chapter-template/
>
> Your are welcome to use this template, but please be aware of the upcoming
> changes with the launch of the new Internet Society visual identity later
> this year. It might therefore be worth waiting for the new template before
> you invest a lot of time and effort in the current design.
>
> As Khaled mentioned, the current Internet Society identity guidelines are
> available at http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/identity/ and it is
> important for all Chapters to familiarize themselves with these guidelines.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Christine
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Internet Society (ISOC)
> Christine Saegesser Baethge
> Manager, Chapters and Individual Members
> Website: www.InternetSociety.org
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>
>
> On Jun 6, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Eduardo Diaz wrote:
>
> >
> > and to continue - a joomla based chapter web page - www.isocpr.org -
> which integrates membership and events handling.
> >
> > -ed
> >
> >
> > 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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