[Chapter-delegates] Sync between AMS and Chapter member databases?

[Ted Mooney]

To all the chapter leaders and administrators,

These are excellent observations and are among the many issues we are
looking at in order to improve the portal and the AMS (and other systems
we expect to roll out to our communities this year) as a service to
chapters and members.  We know there are issues of database
synchronization, mobile access, download and upload speed among others.

Working with a few of you and with our IT team, we continue to identify
the key elements of these improvements and are developing a timeline which
I will share with you as soon as possible.

This message is to assure you that your needs and expressions are heard
and are guiding our work.

Thank you all for your contribution and your perseverance.

Ted
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Ted Mooney
Senior Director, Membership & Services
The Internet Society
1775 Wiehle Avenue
Reston, VA 20190 USA
Office: +1 703-439-2774
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eMail: mooney at isoc.org


On 2/25/14 12:34 AM, "Elver Loho" <elver.loho at gmail.com> wrote:

>In Estonia it would be great if we could integrate government-verified
>digital signatures into the process. We could do it right now -- have
>an online membership application form, where you sign the result with
>your ID-card or Mobile-ID and it becomes legally binding in the
>required fashion -- but then we'd still need to manually copy the data
>to the ISOC portal.
>
>I wonder if the grant funds could be used to do this, actually.
>
>Best,
>Elver
>.ee
>
>elver.loho at gmail.com
>+372 5661 6933
>skype: elver.loho
>
>
>On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Charles Oloo <oloo6382 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All.
>> Nice suggestions and debate, and I totally agree with Evan. I think It
>>is
>> our prerogative to lead in this field and show what  technology can do,
>> improving performance and delivery of service. I suppose the ISOC AMS
>>was
>> configured to meet certain criteria and objective, hence maybe other
>>APIs
>> are unable to integrate with other APPs as Eduardo Diaz asserted.  As a
>> developer, I reckon that this can be improved if there necessity
>>beckons.
>>
>> We in Kenya have been also thinking of better ways to use "tech" ,
>> especially how our local mobile money MPESA can be integrated for
>>membership
>> dues. This and Evan's idea is quite valid and I fully support it. Maybe
>>the
>> AMS administrator / developer could shed more light into these
>>discussions.
>>
>> Oharles Oloo
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> We are in the process of automating the Canada Chapter's membership
>>> application system using CiviCRM and Paypal, as we will be charging
>>>annual
>>> dues similar to some other chapters.
>>>
>>> I would like to know if anyone at other chapters has tried to integrate
>>> the ISOC AMS with their own local membership database. We would like to
>>> simplify membership by having a single sign-up page that would enable
>>> someone to simultaneously obtain an ISOC Member ID and apply for
>>>membership
>>> in our chapter.
>>>
>>> Alternately, are we as a chapter empowered to apply for membership on
>>> behalf of someone else, who has come to the Chapter site but does not
>>>yet
>>> have a global ISOC member ID?
>>>
>>> What I would like to avoid is a situation in which we turn away members
>>> because it's "too much trouble". We need to make it as easy as
>>>possible to
>>> attract members, and the three step process of
>>>
>>> Coming to our site to join
>>> Being diverted to the AMS to create a membership and having to remember
>>> the ID
>>> Coming back to the chapter site and using the new ID to apply for
>>> membership with us
>>>
>>> is IMO working against our ability to build membership. It is easy to
>>> complain that people should be able to persist through all those
>>>steps, but
>>> to me it is unacceptable to have barriers to membership that can be
>>> addressed using available technology.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions, and especially experiences from others who have
>>> encountered this issue, are extremely welcomed.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Evan Leibovitch
>>> Toronto Canada
>>>
>>> Em: evan at telly dot org
>>> Sk: evanleibovitch
>>> Tw: el56
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Charles Oluoch Oloo
>> Innovative Web Applications Developer
>> Tel: +254-721-909757, 738-275001
>> Alt. E-mail: coloo at kefri.org
>>
>>
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