[Chapter-delegates] Responding to feedback - Re: Announcing - new beta site of redesigned Internet Society website

[Dan York]

Chapter delegates,

Many thanks for all the feedback! Rather than fill up your inboxes with 9 responses to individual messages, I've consolidated the key points into this message and will reply below with "DY>" inline.

Also, I'd encourage you to leave feedback about the beta site on Github as that is more easily seen by our developers and others who are not subscribed to this chapter-delegates list. The URL there is (an account at Github is needed, but they are free):

https://github.com/InternetSociety/beta-site-feedback/issues

You can, of course, continue to send me email, but leaving the comments about the beta site over on Github will be seen by more of the team involved with the redesign.

FYI, we plan to regularly push updates to the beta site during the next few months, most likely every 2 weeks or so. If there are any major updates affecting chapter information - or when we reach the stages where we are looking for additional testing - I'll let you know here.

Thank you also for the feedback about our separate AMS system. Todd Tolbert has replied back today on those points.

On to my responses...


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On Jun 12, 2017, at 1:36 AM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com<mailto:joly at punkcast.com>> wrote:

As far as the current site goes, it would be helpful to have social media share links on blog posts and other items.

DY> Joly, yes, that is something missing from our current site. The new site will have those on blog posts, resources, etc. That's not in the beta site yet, but will be coming.  (A challenge, of course, is that we don't actually want people to *use* the sharing links on the beta site to share resources off of the beta site. But the sharing links will definitely be there before we move the beta site into production.)


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On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Winthrop Yu <w.yu at gmx.net<mailto:w.yu at gmx.net>> wrote:

P.S.  <snip> 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.)

DY> Winthrop, yes, this is definitely an issue with the current site. The new site will be different. Our goal is to make sure that all our content can be easily shared - and for it to look good in social media when shared. You should just be able to drop the URL into a social network and have it appear appropriately for that platform.


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On Jun 10, 2017, at 12:09 PM, Nadira Alaraj <nadira.araj at gmail.com<mailto:nadira.araj at gmail.com>> wrote:

Thanks Dan for giving us insights of what to expect.

DY> You're welcome, Nadira.

Having the content in the most spoken languages was problem in the current website and I could see it is going to be the same for the new website.

DY> Yes, the current website is quite honestly an embarrassment with regard to language support. We are NOT going to have the new site be the same way. We are taking some steps to work differently with the new site.

DY> I will have a blog post out in the next day or two outlining what we are doing differently and how we will be growing the support of languages over time.

Now we have the Middle East regional Bureau, would be good to coordinate with them to have the coming new in Arabic.

DY> Stay tuned for my blog post to explain more on this point.


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On Jun 11, 2017, at 12:45 PM, Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn at gmail.com<mailto:mcknight.glenn at gmail.com>> wrote:

As to the  ISOC Membership page idea

I like this page by REI  on their membership and it's benefits.  The polaroid style shots are also neat
https://www.rei.com/membership/benefits

DY> Thanks for the example of what you liked, Glenn. We will definitely be changing/improving the pages about membership.


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On Jun 9, 2017, at 12:10 PM, Christian de Larrinaga <cdel at firsthand.net<mailto:cdel at firsthand.net>> wrote:

Great to see you getting engagement early on.

DY> Thank you, Christian - we really *need* your feedback/engagement to ensure that the new site works for our whole membership - and also works globally.

If and as when you want an independent but informal voluntary look
behind the scenes maybe your design crew at ATTCK could provide access
to the wordpress theme they've designed / using referenced at
https://beta.internetsociety.org/wp-content/themes/isoc and the other
resources?

DY> Thanks for the request. I'll let you know if we reach a point where that might be an option. Right now we are entirely focused on making the site operational.


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On Jun 9, 2017, at 11:50 AM, Carlos Vera <cveraq at gmail.com<mailto:cveraq at gmail.com>> wrote:

Excelente Dan!

Carlos Vera
isoc Ecuador

DY> Thank you.


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On Jun 9, 2017, at 10:34 PM, John More <morej1 at mac.com<mailto:morej1 at mac.com>> wrote:

I like the site design. Excellent for creating involvement.

DY> Thank you.


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On Jun 9, 2017, at 4:13 PM, Eduardo Diaz <eduardodiazrivera at gmail.com<mailto:eduardodiazrivera at gmail.com>> wrote:

Dan:

THnak you for this.

DY> You're welcome.


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On Jun 14, 2017, at 10:21 AM, James Kofi <kofiadzamli at gmail.com<mailto:kofiadzamli at gmail.com>> wrote:

Good work York!
We'll give you the needed assistwill to get the task done.

DY> Thank you - and I appreciate the willingness to help. I will let you know when there are more ways in which help is needed.


THANK YOU all for the feedback,
Dan


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Dan York
Senior Manager, Content & Web Strategy, Internet Society
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