[Chapter-delegates] Is Internet Society Newsletter dead ?

Houle Louis Louis.Houle at isocquebec.org
Tue Sep 24 14:53:45 PDT 2013


+ 2 Joly ;-)

Louis Houle
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Le 2013-09-16 18:51, Victor Ndonnang a écrit :
>
> +1 Joly,
>
> Thank you very much for the clarification. I was not aware about that. 
> Going through your message, It seems like the best option is to keep 
> our existing newsletter rather than drying what has been a failure in 
> the past.
>
> So It is better to improve our existing newsletter rather than 
> replacing it.
>
> Whatever platform we decide to choose, It will be important to make 
> sure that news from ISOC and Chapters reach chapter members mailboxes 
> in a regular manner.
>
> Regards,
>
> Victor.
>
> *De :*joly.nyc at gmail.com [mailto:joly.nyc at gmail.com] *De la part de* 
> Joly MacFie
> *Envoyé :* lundi 16 septembre 2013 20:25
> *À :* Victor Ndonnang
> *Cc :* Joyce Dogniez; Eduardo Diaz; Carlos Vera Quintana; ISOC Chapter 
> Delegates
> *Objet :* Re: [Chapter-delegates] Is Internet Society Newsletter dead ?
>
> 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
>
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Victor Ndonnang 
> <ndonnang at nvconsulting.biz <mailto:ndonnang at nvconsulting.biz>> wrote:
>
> Thanks Joyce for the update. While acknowledging the great work you 
> and the ISOC Chapter support team are doing, more communication 
> between ISOC-headquarters and Chapters is still needed to avoid such 
> questions...
>
> In the web 2.0 age, It is true that the ISOC Chapters newsletter is 
> not still the best way to share updates and information among 
> chapters. Blog, wiki and social Medias are new tools to maintain 
> Chapters connected to each other and share information. So I welcome 
> Joyce's proposition of having a blog platform for Chapters information 
> sharing. In addition to that, I suggest a wiki platform where Chapters 
> can easily introduce information about their past, recent and future 
> actives; a sort of "online' ISOC Chapter Newsletter. Finally I call 
> all chapters to create and keep up-to-date accounts on most popular 
> social networks; at least Facebook and Twitter.
>
> Thank you once again and thanks to Takaaki, Eduardo and Carlos for 
> pointing out the issue.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Victor Ndonnang
>
> ISOC Cameroon Chapter
>
> *De :*chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org 
> <mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org> 
> [mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org 
> <mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org>] *De la part de* 
> Joyce Dogniez
> *Envoyé :* vendredi 13 septembre 2013 16:51
> *À :* Eduardo Diaz; Carlos Vera Quintana
> *Cc :* ISOC Chapter Delegates
> *Objet :* 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
>
> -- 
>
> Joyce Dogniez, CMM
>
> Director of Chapters
>
> Internet Society
>
> dogniez at isoc.org <mailto:dogniez at isoc.org>
>
> tel: +352 621 266 189 <tel:%2B352%20621%20266%20189>
>
> Skype: joycedogniez
>
> *From: *Eduardo Diaz <eduardodiazrivera at gmail.com 
> <mailto:eduardodiazrivera at gmail.com>>
> *Date: *Thursday, September 12, 2013 5:26 PM
> *To: *Carlos Vera Quintana <cveraq at gmail.com <mailto:cveraq at gmail.com>>
> *Cc: *ISOC Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org 
> <mailto:chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>>
> *Subject: *Re: [Chapter-delegates] Is Internet Society Newsletter dead ?
>
> I received this before:
>
> http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=1cd9d7df0f6d424140468f887&id=c47c15b005&e=33b8fcf700
>
> It looks this is what we are going to use but...who knows? Can someone 
> from staff let us know what happened to the newsletter?
>
> -ed
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Carlos Vera Quintana 
> <cveraq at gmail.com <mailto:cveraq at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Is dead o we kill it?
>
> Carlos Vera Quintana
>
> 0988141143
>
> Sígueme @cveraq
>
>
> El 11/09/2013, a las 23:17, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com 
> <mailto:joly at punkcast.com>> escribió:
>
>     Good question!
>
>     On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:17 PM, HIGUCHI,Takaaki
>     <higuchi.takaaki at miraitsystems.jp
>     <mailto:higuchi.takaaki at miraitsystems.jp>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Is Internet Society Newsletter ended ?
>
>     There has been no inquiry since March about chapter contribution
>     (included below), and there has been no update of Internet Society
>     Newsletter since then.
>     http://www.internetsociety.org/newsletter
>
>     So I'd like to confirm the newsletter is dead now.
>
>     And then, one more question, where(or how) do we report our
>     activities ?
>
>     thanks in advance,
>     Takaaki Higuchi, Japan Chapter
>
>     -------- Original Message --------
>     Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Your Chapter contributions for ISOC
>     January 2013 Newsletter
>     Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 16:44:06 +0100
>     From: Jacek Gajewski <gajewski at isoc.org <mailto:gajewski at isoc.org>>
>     To: ISOC Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
>     <mailto:chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>>
>
>     =================================================================================
>     VERSION FRANCAISE CI-DESSOUS  // VERSIÓN ESPAÑOLA ABAJO //
>     DEUTSCHE VERSION UNTEN
>     =================================================================================
>
>     Dear colleagues,
>
>     We would like to hear from your Chapter! Please share your news
>     and activities with other Internet Society members and Chapters by
>     sending in your contributions for the next Internet Society
>     Newsletter (see http://isoc.org/wp/newsletter/). You will see the
>     articles on the Internet Society's blog site [1] throughout the
>     month, as well as a monthly round up of all articles via email.
>
>     You may include a short description (100-140 words) of your
>     Chapter's activities with links to your website or the Chapter
>     wiki [2] for additional information. Please also include any
>     information about future scheduled events.
>
>     I would appreciate receiving your contributions for this month's
>     issue by 27 March 2013 at chapter-support[at]isoc.org
>     <http://isoc.org> .
>
>     Thank You!
>
>     ************************************************************************
>
>     FRANCAIS
>
>     L'actualité de votre chapitre nous intéresse! Informez les autres
>     membres et Chapitres - envoyez-nous vos contributions pour la
>     prochaine édition de l'ISOC Newsletter (voir:
>     http://isoc.org/wp/newsletter/). Les articles seront publiés au
>     fur et à mesure sur le blog d'ISOC [1]. A la fin de chaque mois,
>     vous recevrez un courriel avec l'ensemble des articles.
>
>     Votre contribution peut presenter les activités (environ 100-140
>     mots) au sein de votre Chapitre, complétée par des liens vers le
>     "Chapter Wiki" [2] ou votre site Internet. Nous vous invitons
>     également d'ajouter les événements prévus dans votre agenda.
>
>     Pour l'édition de ce mois, nous vous prions de nous faire parvenir
>     vos contribution jusqu'au 27  mars 2013 à
>     chapter-support[at]isoc.org <http://isoc.org> .
>
>     Merci d'avance!
>
>     ************************************************************************
>
>     ESPAÑOL
>
>     ¡Nos gustaría oir de tu Capítulo! Por favor, comparte tus
>     novedadesy actividades con otros miembros y Capítulos de ISOC
>     enviando tus contribuciones para el próximo newsletter de ISOC
>     (http://isoc.org/wp/newsletter/). Verás los artículos publicados
>     en el blog de ISOC [1] todo el mes, así como un resumen mensual
>     via correo electrónico.
>
>     Puedes incluir una descripción corta (100-140 palabras) de las
>     actividades de tu Capítulo con enlaces al wiki de Capítulos [2] o
>     a tu sitio web para información adicional. Por favor, también
>     incluye información sobre eventos futuros.
>
>     Agredecería recibir tus contribuciones para la edición de este mes
>     antes del 27 de marzo de 2013, envía por favor a
>     chapter-support[at]isoc.org <http://isoc.org> .
>
>     ¡Muchas gracias!
>
>     ************************************************************************
>
>     DEUTSCH
>
>     Informieren Sie weltweit ISOC Mitglieder und Chapter über die
>     aktuellen Themen aus Ihrem Verein (Chapter). Bitte senden Sie uns
>     einen Beitrag mit Neuigkeiten und Aktivitäten Ihres Chapters für
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>     <http://isoc.org/wp/newsletter/>). Die Beitrage werden während des
>     Monats auf ISOC's Blogseite [1] veröffentlicht und am Ende des
>     Monats zusammengefasst als Email veschickt.
>
>     Sie können eine kurze Beschreibung (100-140 Wörter) der
>     wichtigsten Aktivitäten Ihres Chapters mit Links zum Chapter Wiki
>     [2] oder zu Ihrer Webseite sowie Einzelheiten über kommende
>     Veranstaltungen einfügen.
>
>     Alle Beiträge für diesen Monat sollten bis zum 27. Maerz 2013 bei
>     uns vorliegen, E-mails bitte an chapter-support[at]isoc.org
>     <http://isoc.org> .
>
>     Vielen Dank!
>
>     ************************************************************************
>
>     Best regards,
>
>     Jacek Gajewski
>
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