[Chapter-delegates] Is Internet Society Newsletter dead ?

[John More]

Good question.

Communications on an ongoing basis to individual members about ISOC and especially ISOC Chapters should be an important component of ISOC's being an effective organization.  Most information now goes to Chapter leaders.  To my knowledge I get almost nothing as a member of ISOC.  I do get a lot of communications from the DC Chapter, but then our Co-Chair is a social media expert and takes the time.

And yes the folks in San Francisco would gain from hearing from ISOC Nepal.

John More
Washington DC Chapter
On Sep 16, 2013, at 6:25 PM, "Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch" <apisan at unam.mx> wrote:

> Winthrop, Joly,
> 
> +1 and a bit more.
> 
> Push is not king anymore but it sure is a worthy ally. 
> 
> Anything we do may or not be fine (social media went really wrong among other reasons for not trusting the Chapters as beta-testers or even contributors), but push is invaluable. Wikis in our experience are back-office things and they may leave you with a nice Webpage or whatever else you do but it won't land in people's inboxes (not only nor necessarily email inboxes) and surprise them, pleasantly if all goes well.
> 
> Whether news from Chapters is something individual members want may be open to study but  if so, let's see the study. Would people say in San Francisco gain or lose by hearing less from say ISOC Nepal? 
> 
> And Ted, please don't let push die. 
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Alejandro Pisanty
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> Enviado el: lunes, 16 de septiembre de 2013 15:03
> Hasta: ISOC Chapter Delegates
> Asunto: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Is Internet Society Newsletter dead ?
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>   (y) Joly!
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> 
> On 9/17/2013 3:24 AM, Joly MacFie wrote:
>> Victor, a wiki has been tried, and still exists - http://wiki.chapters.isoc.org/
>> - but it was never much used.
>> 
>> Also Elena of ISOC Romania made a a valiant attempt to launch a buddypress
>> http://www.anuntul.eu/wordpress/ which similarly failed to inspire much
>> participation.
>> 
>> The fact is that the newsletter, carefully curated by hand, with individual
>> elements coming out as thy happened via wordpress + rss, followed up by a
>> monthly global digested mailout, was as effective as it gets. My only suggestion
>> would be that there be some more detailed style options, such as html or
>> non-html.  I especially appreciate that the non-html existing version was
>> universally accessible.
>> 
>> The rss made it easy to embed chapter updates on our site. Right now all we have
>> is ISOC headlines rss - http://www.internetsociety.org/rss - not by any means as
>> comprehensive.
>> 
>> ISOC's piecemeal adventures into social media have, at times, been amateurish
>> and embarassing. I myself have taken up moderation of the ISOC linked in group
>> as nobody else was doing the job. While the ITU has a consistent program of
>> masterfully produced side interviews from events, ISOC went for shaky phone
>> versions <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbvna25jL2M>,, etc, etc..
>> 
>> Recently North America regional director Paul Brigner has made a concerted
>> effort to upgrade video capabilties of not just his region, but all regions. He
>> should be supported in that effort.
>> 
>> Raquel Gatto made the point, in a recent North America members hangout, that it
>> is important to take our discourse to where the people are today, but the
>> corollary is that it's counter productive to abandon those that are happy with
>> email etc.. I think it is good to enhance our communications over new platforms,
>> but that they should only be supplemental to the robust and accessible existing
>> ones.
>> 
>> j
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