[Chapter-delegates] Membership Database Maintenance

[Julian Vincent]

Can I suggest something different ie

1. Since members primarily interact/interface with their chapters
2. Why not let members sign up on chapter sites instead
3. Chapters can then provide members database to HQ every month to then be
updated into the AMS
4. Hence if prospect new members go to isoc.org, they will then be pointed
to the respective chapter website
5. This way members will get to know their chapters and its activities
before deciding to sign up and hopefully engage and contribute.

Thank you.

Cheers,

Julian Vincent
Chair
Malaysian Chapter
On Mar 13, 2013 2:52 PM, "Paul Brooks" <paul.brooks at isoc-au.org.au> wrote:

>  On 9/03/2013 1:38 AM, Ted Mooney wrote:
>
> To all Internet Society Chapters,
>
>  ISOC Staff are undertaking a long overdue maintenance of our database.
>  We are starting with member records and want you to know the plan and what
> it means for you.
>
>  Over the course of the next two to four weeks, we will monitor all
> primary email addresses of all member records.  Any email address that
> returns four "hard bounces" to our system will flag that member record as
> "unreachable".  At the end of four weeks we will unsubscribe all such
> records in the database from receiving email from ISOC, and we will cancel
> these memberships.
>
>  We will not, at this time remove any name from the database.  We will
> also, within two weeks following this action,  compile a list of all
> removed members and make that list available to all Chapters affected.
>
>
> Ted - can I suggest a better process might be to compile the list of all
> candidates for deletion, make that list available to the chapter to
> resolve/confirm/check *before* cancelling the memberships, and only
> unsubscribe + cancel those that the chapter confirms are no longer members
> or have not been able to contact locally?
>
> If a contact has multiple email addresses listed, if the primary one
> returns bounces will your process attempt to contact the secondary email
> addresses before cancelling their membership?
>
>
> Might be a smaller chance of embarrassing collateral damage and false
> negatives causing people to be incorrectly cancelled and having to be
> reinstated again if things are done in this sequence.
>
> Regards,
>     Paul.
>
> --
> Paul Brooks
> Board member
> ISOC-AU - Internet Society of Australia
>
>
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