[Chapter-delegates] ISOC LIVE - the reports of its death are exaggerated, but..

[borka at e5.ijs.si]

+1, all  data are iportant in taking decisions.

Regards,

Slovenia Chapter


On Tue, 12 Mar 2024, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via Chapter-delegates wrote:

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> On 12/03/2024 13:49, Andrew Sullivan via Chapter-delegates wrote:
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>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 02:05:15PM +0100, Emmanuel Vitus wrote:
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>>> everything, it seems like there's a pretty strong reaction from the
>>> community about the decision and how it was made. I'm really keen to
>>> understand if you/staff get any thoughts from the folks who use Joly's
>>> service the most or from any of the community leaders before the
>>> termination of the agreement?
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>> The evaluation was on the basis of the consumption of the streams.  I 
>> understand that there are people who feel these streams are useful, but the 
>> _actual results_ do not bear those impressions out.  If, however, chapters 
>> believe the streams are useful anyway, they are in a position to use their 
>> resources to continue supporting them. 
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> As you know, impact on Social Media is about subscribers. It is not about 
> individual videos. The number of people that get notified of activities on a 
> channel is directly linked to the number of followers/subscribers it has. 
> That's what makes influencers "important".
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> isoc.live main LiveStream Channel - 24K followers:
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> - Internet Society YouTube 7.1K subscribers:
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> - IETF YouTube 4.4k subscribers:
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> - NDSS YouTube 2.47k subscribers:
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> I'd say you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater, shutting down 
> ISOC's largest distribution channel so far, by a huge magnitude.
> Kindest regards,
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> Olivier
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