<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Jeremy,<br>
<br>
Congratulations for the enhancements! And thank you very much. <br>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Three suggestions and one concern follow below:<br>
<br>
- On the "membership" section, it would be interesting to know a
little more about IGC members, where they are from, their organization, etc.
This is very important to our outreach strategy. We need to know who we are, so
we can evaluate who is missing. It would be easier to map the regions in
which our presence is strong and the ones we need to reinforce it, and to find members that could help with outreach in their countries. A basic
questionnaire could be created, so the information about each member would be
uniform. New members could answer the questionnaire when they sign in to the
list. Current members would have to be asked to reply the questionnaire.<br>
<br>
- It would be interesting to have an easy way to access to videos that are
important to IGC in an organized manner. Videos are an increasingly important
way to convey messages and to "tell our story" to future members. There is good material in youtube already, while other videos (from IGF for
instance) need to be edited. If IGC members could contribute to this resource
pool of videos, it would be easier to make it grow. But we need to have some
way to classify them, so they can be retrieved more easily.<br>
<br>
- It would also be interesting to have a "resource" section, of
relevant texts and documents made available by the members. But we need to archive
them in a coherent manner as well.<br>
<br>
Now one concern. Although I think it is very useful to find our posts to the IGC
list in IGC website and although and I agree that IGC
discussions should be transparent, I am worried that some strategic discussions
we carry out here on the list would be accessible by anybody. I donīt know, but maybe
our members will start to think twice before saying something, and we may lose in
some degree the frankness that has characterized the discussions on the list. <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">I
tend to believe that the content of e-mails sent to the list should only be accessible to members, after
they log in on the platform, but I would very much like to hear other thoughts
about it. Maybe when the blog section is ready our members can choose what they want to post to the world and what is internal conversation.<br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Happy holidays!<br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Marilia</p>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word;">Phase 1 of the improvements that I've been undertaking to the IGC Web site are complete. These include:<div><br></div><div><ul><li>Summary of posts to the governance list, recent Twitter posts, and our most recent statements, appear on the front page.</li>
<li>The Limesurvey polling software, and <a href="http://digress.it" target="_blank">digress.it</a> commenting software, have both been moved to our own Web space, and links provided from our main Web site (under "Statements").</li>
<li>Coordinators no longer need to edit the "Statements" page to post links to recent statements - if the "Statement" content type is used, they appear listed there automatically in chronological order.</li>
<li>Content has been re-organised, more logically, I think.</li><li>Coordinators can edit in rich text.</li><li>There is a search function.</li><li>The back end has been upgraded to the latest stable version.</li></ul><div>
<br></div><div>Phase 2 of the improvements will be to add more interactivity to the site - blog space, wiki functionality, and hopefully to integrate Web site logins with the mailing list. </div><div><div>
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