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

[Maye Diop]

Dear Todd,
Thanks for clarification,
I look forward next steps.
Best Regards

2017-06-14 14:02 GMT+00:00 Todd M. Tolbert <tolbert at isoc.org>:

> Dear Delegates,
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> Thank you for bringing up the topic of the Association Management System
> (AMS), Aptify, and its use by our Chapters around the world. I wanted to
> give you an update on the work that the staff has been undertaking in this
> area and lay out a brief overview of what we see are the next steps.
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> In 2016, ISOC commissioned a review of Aptify and its utilization within
> the ISOC staff for its use in managing the day-to-day needs of a global
> non-profit organization. This review was focused in that it asked the
> consultants to not only determine if Aptify was still meeting ISOC’s needs,
> but what other best-in-breed solutions might be out there and what
> processes should we be looking to revamp.  During this review, we
> purposefully did not take on the needs of managing individual Chapters as
> the scope for managing the global organization was a large one already. But
> we always knew that a complete review must include the needs of the
> individual chapters and we would be coming back to that.
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> The results of the review showed clearly that while ISOC could make Aptify
> accomplish what we needed, it would take major configuration, development
> and process overhauls. The effort in doing so (in both people and cost)
> could be better served by looking at a more modern, cloud-based
> solution, and in the end, one that could provide opportunity to do much
> more than what we currently do with Aptify. With that proposal in hand, the
> Executive Team decided that working towards replacement of Aptify should be
> started in 2017.
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> Subsequently, a small team was convened to look at what systems in the
> CRM/AMS world could even come close to facilitating the needs of a global
> organization like ISOC. We do have some particular security, language and
> data privacy needs, and wanted to ensure there were at least two or three
> enterprise-class systems that could accommodate us. Additionally, we
> started looking at processes internally that should be reviewed and
> revamped, and not just copied into our “next” system. And lastly, we
> recognize that we want something that can be of more benefit to you, the
> Chapter Leaders.
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> With that, in the coming months, we will be working with the ISOC Chapters
> Support team to identify a group of Chapter Leaders that can help provide
> us with insight on functionality that could be provided through a single
> AMS. We look forward to hearing from you what would be beneficial and
> seeing if a new system, with careful thought and collaboration, can meet
> the needs of all of us.
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> While I have your attention, I’d like to address one comment made in this
> forum, there is not a line item on the financials that points out the cost
> of the Aptify AMS system. There is a line in the financials that delineates
> costs for services rendered by a *company* called AMS. This company is the
> secretariat for the IETF. The Aptify system is licensed and run by ISOC IT,
> not provided by a cloud (or any other) provider. I hope that clarifies for
> anyone who was wondering.
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> Thank you again for bringing this up, more to come.
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> Todd
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> --
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> Todd M. Tolbert
> Chief Administrative Officer
> Internet Society
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> 1775 Wiehle Avenue, Suite 201
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> Reston, VA 20190
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> E: tolbert at isoc.org
> Zoom.us <https://isoc.zoom.us/>: tolbert at isoc.org
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> *From: *Chapter-delegates <chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org> on
> behalf of Janvier NGNOULAYE <jnoulaye at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Monday, June 12, 2017 at 11:39 AM
> *To: *"veni at veni.com" <veni at veni.com>
> *Cc: *ISOC Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [Chapter-delegates] Announcing - new beta site of
> redesigned Internet Society website
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> If AMS is a paid service, it's really need to be changed.
>
> Regards.
>
> Ngnoulaye
>
> Isoc Cameroon
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> Le 12 juin 2017 17:28, "Veni Markovski" <veni at veni.com> a écrit :
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> Just to mention (for the newcomers) - we have had similar discussions in
> the past. Perhaps worth going through the mailing list archives:-)
>
> Best,
> Veni
> ISOC-Bulgaria.
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> On 06/12/17 11:53, John More wrote:
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> I believe it in internally managed.  I have over the years asked for
> improvements.  Minimal response. One thing that would be useful is the
> ability to enroll Chapter members into the Society without having to send
> them to the Website.  The AMS also does not really require much in the way
> of information (i.e., permits enrollment without accuracy). There is no
> ability to track participation or collect responses.
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> John More
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> On Jun 12, 2017, at 11:36 AM, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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 ;-)
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> 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.
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> Regards
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