[Chapter-delegates] Space for improvement - congrat messages

[Christine Saegesser]

Dear Klaus, all,

Thanks for this and a gentle reminder to everyone of the Internet Society’s Discussion Group Etiquette here: https://www.internetsociety.org/become-a-member/code-of-conduct/

For now, please indeed send your notes of congratulations as individual messages rather than on the list.

Also, the Chapters Advisory Council (ChAC) is currently putting together a working group on "Communications, Outreach and Engagement” - those of you interested in joining this, please add your names here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/chac-engagement<http://www.surveymonkey.com/r/chac-engagement>

Best,

Christine

On 13 Aug 2023, at 16:32, Johan Helsingius via Chapter-delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org<mailto:chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>> wrote:

I was going to reply "hear hear!", but then realized the second worst
mailing list pollutant is probably the "+1" messages. :)

Julf


On 12/08/2023 16:44, Klaus Birkenbihl via Chapter-delegates wrote:
Dear delegates,
let me start with a little stat: 2022 we had a total of total of 587 messages on this list. Of the 536 messages there were 161 "congrats" of one form or the other. So there were still 375 messages (~1/day) dedicated to other topics. This means 30% of all messages on the list didn't carry any message beyond politely saying "cool guys! We are so happy you made it.".
<irony>
This might impress you but given we have a total of 110 Chapters we could do much better.
Just a simple estimate of the huge potential: we have ~110 Chapters which conduct elections every 2 years (for now not counting ISOC board elections, rejuvenations ... or so). If every Chapter would only show a minimum of empathy and and politeness, and send congrats to those elected this would count up to the impressive number of 110/2years*119 ~ 6,000/year or 16/day! Please don't overly emote the risk to miss the 1/day message with content among those.
So: wouldn't this be a goal to head for? Be confident and assured: we are good on our way.
Thanks and let's improve!
</irony>
Best regards
Klaus
PS.: I think I saw some kind of ISOC "congratulations" mailing list before but I'm not sure. But if so it obviously was a failure. It might be an alternative to send congrats messages directly to those felicitated instead of the list - which - optimist I am - I'm afraid would fail as well.
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