[Chapter-delegates] Chapters & Wordpress themes

[Chris Grundemann]

One more for the 'custom' WP chapter site list: http://www.coisoc.org/

Many great pages here!

Cheers,
~Chris


On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 06:21, Eduardo Diaz <eduardodiazrivera at gmail.com> 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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