[Chapter-delegates] Announcing - new beta site of redesigned Internet Society website

[Seun Ojedeji]

Okay if AMS is a paid service then I will say it does not strike me as a
good value for money. Certainly not in this present technology era ;-)

Few weeks ago I was trying to do approval for about 30 new applicants but
the stuff broke on me and I had to do it in bits. So if AMS is a paid
service, the provider needs to have critical look at its scalability and
flexibility. Perhaps proper feature/bug reporting medium is a place to
start.

Regards

On 12 Jun 2017 3:58 PM, "Carlos Vera" <cveraq at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do we pay money for AMS?
>
> Carlos Vera
> Isoc Ecuador
>
> On Jun 12, 2017, at 12:36 AM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
>
> Winthrop's AMS comments resonate with me a great deal. And I recall
> looking over the financial report a few years back and being horrified at
> the the amount of money spent on it.
>
> As far as the current site goes, it would be helpful to have social media
> share links on blog posts and other items.
>
> j
>
> On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Winthrop Yu <w.yu at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>>   The AMS system is hardly perfect and it's showing its age. But it is
>> somewhat usable, and we've (more or less) gotten used to it's quirks. I do
>> worry that the cure will be worse than the problem. I agree with Maye that
>> any replacement should be "light", not too many pretty bells and whistles,
>> please. For me, "Convivial" is optional. :)
>>
>>   Nearly all of the complaints about AMS i've seen so far have been about
>> the messaging/email sub-system. Yes it's clunky, formatting a message is
>> what takes a lot of time. But if the cure were like "Connect", i'd avoid
>> using that too.
>>
>>   Since, we use AMS messaging usually as a way of emailing notices out to
>> a definitive list of chapter members, i'm wondering why a straightforward
>> band-aid fix such as allowing the upload of a pre-formatted *.doc or other
>> format file hasn't been tried?
>>
>> Just wondering,
>>
>> WYn
>>
>> P.S.  And while i don't think one can "manage" social media channels from
>> within an AMS, it would help if ISOC's communications were more social
>> media friendly. To be fair, many of the articles and blogs now have a
>> graphic or photo, so that a share on social media doesn't just display the
>> logo or a thumbnail pic of the author. But, sometimes i still have to
>> reformat before sharing an article from ISOC's official FB page, so it
>> doesn't look too plain and boring (even if the actual content or copy is
>> very well-written and interesting.)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/12/2017 1:19 AM, Maye Diop wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All
>>>
>>> Thank for this opportunities.
>>> AMS portal is not convivial. I spent lot of time to send a mail to our
>>> members (more than 600).
>>> It will be usefull to have another light and convivial AMS.
>>> I'm working locally to set up a community manager to be able to manage
>>> SN Chapter's communication via social media. This will be more efficient to
>>> keep members informed about chapter's activities.
>>>
>>> Best Regards
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
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