[Chapter-delegates] Is Internet Society Newsletter dead ?

[Victor Ndonnang]

Thanks Rudi for your Willingness to help Chapters. We will be happy to participate in any Chapter to Chapter support initiative or project. There was an idea of Multi-Chapters projects (Community Grants ...). Any updates from Colleagues?
Coming back to the ISOC Newsletter, the initiative of the staff to improve it was not bad at all...Change is never received well! For a smooth transition, It was important to keep the newsletter alive when working on its improvement process. Newsletter, blog and wiki can all be channels of communication among ISOC and Chapters.
Let's reactivate the newsletter first and move forward.
Best regards,
Victor Ndonnang

-----Message d'origine-----
De : chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org [mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] De la part de Rudi Vansnick
Envoyé : mercredi 18 septembre 2013 09:36
À : Norbert Klein; Alejandro Pisanty
Cc : Delegates Chapter Delegates
Objet : Re: [Chapter-delegates] Is Internet Society Newsletter dead ?

Dear all,

It is a pity no communication preceded the announcement. Some changes are going on without knowledge of the chapters community. I would really appreciate ISOC chapter staff would involve the chapters in such decisions. The newsletter is the channel of communication that allowed members to know what ISOC is doing / going to do and of course let chapters talk about what they do. Cutting of this channel looks to be the wrong decision. 

As said earlier, and I'm referring to my proposal in Mexico 2009, I'm willing to push forward the proposal "chapters support by chapters". With some experienced and track proven chapter leaders we could build a community channel that will allow chapters to get closer inside views on how other chapters have elaborated a good platform for further expansion of their chapter. And also allow to recognize what did not work and is rather something to avoid to do so.

Always willing to help chapters ... let me know how !

A colleague chapter leader,

Rudi Vansnick


Op 18-sep.-2013, om 05:09 heeft Norbert Klein <nhklein at gmx.net> het volgende geschreven:

> +1
> 
> Norbert
> 
> 
> On 9/18/2013 5:34 AM, Keith Davidson wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I wish these decisions were made from bottom-up rather than this top-down decision to dispense with the newsletter.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Keith
>> 
>> On 16/09/2013 5:56 p.m., Eduard Tric wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>> The newsletter is valuable push information.
>>> It also shows Isoc dynamic , pushing notable news from local chapters at global level.
>>> A blog is useful as well , but it will never replace a newsletter.
>>> Why it was abadoned ?
>>> Can this be reconsidered ?
>>> Just as an example , we distibute   the weekly european newsletter (prepared by Frederic Donck ) to all our local chapter members , and so far we've had positive feedback and very intersting reactions.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Ed
>>> 
>>> ----- Mesaj original -----
>>> De la: "Joyce Dogniez" <dogniez at isoc.org>
>>> Către: "Eduardo Diaz" <eduardodiazrivera at gmail.com>, "Carlos Vera 
>>> Quintana" <cveraq at gmail.com>
>>> cc: "ISOC Chapter Delegates" <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
>>> Trimis: vineri, 13 septembrie, 2013 18:50:33
>>> Subiect: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Is Internet Society Newsletter dead ?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Dear Takaaki-san, Eduardo and Carlos,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I understand your question is related to the overall ISOC newsletter. We are looking into replacing this newsletter with a blog platform (to be launched early Oct) that will also offer new "subscribe" options that can be filtered by specific topics. This will allow our readers to follow general updates, as well as specific themes. It will also provide the opportunity for chapter content and updates.
>>> We will share more about this in the next coming weeks.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> As for the link Eduardo posted to ISOConnect, this is the Chapter Officer 'newsletter', specifically addressing available resources or information relevant to the chapter officers. Information about funding, new available resources, important information you can share with your members and communities, etc. It mainly provides links to our website as we received the feedback some information is not always easy to find or needs some highlighting once in a while.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hope this answers your question.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Kind regards
>>> Joyce
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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