2013/1/11 Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com>

My suggestion was/is that while long term strategic plans etc are put together, at minimum a simple 'about' page be added to the website, and possible a FAQ. Which can develop over time and cover all kinds of questions.

At ISOC-NY our solution has been to maintain a mediawiki so, for instance, our about page goes to here - http://isoc-ny.org/wiki/Wiki:Community_Portal and the wiki contains resource repositories such as this one on accessibility http://isoc-ny.org/wiki/Accessibility_resources which develop over time. A wiki allows for community involvement and also individual WG's to maintain their own presence, but does require some vigilance, and some degree of access control skill to block spambots etc

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On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Charles Oloo <oloo6382@gmail.com> wrote:

ISOC-KE 2013

@ Grace
Thanks for your inquiry. In retrospect, am quiet sure all subscribers know of our monthly meetings that also acts as our focal point, apart from sharing on the mailing list. Regarding the successful event, we are all aware that it happened during Xmas holidays, and this is the time guys are resuming, albeit slowly due to opening of schools for those who are parents. The Event Working Group is working on the report and once complete will be disseminated accordingly.

We have an on-line presence www.isoc-ke.org that we are populating, since the previous website www.isoc.or.ke/ which was sponsored by KENIC could not be maintained due to the happenings at KENIC.

Those are some of the challenges we have been experiencing and am sure you must have come across this info if you are on the mailing loop.

However, we had a discussion last week and we are due to make a courtesy call to the new KENIC officers, to see discuss and how we can resolve between using the two domains. Chair, Barrack is spearheading this process. We are also on FB as well as Tweeter account. I hope the secretary shared these during the chapter launch last month.

Indeed we have challenges. The first one is lack of volunteers. Although we have over 200 members, very few are actually passionate and volunteering their time for the chapter's activities. It is only thro active participation that we can be able to utilize membership synergies.

On this note, the Chapter is preparing a Strategic Plan that has been in discussion for some time now, and will be presented for adoption in the next meeting.

I therefore wish to kindly request for member with various skills;
@Accounting, Project Management, Research, Law or any other professional capacity to willingly volunteer and kindly get in touch with the Secretariat, to get aligned to the various Working Groups;
Membership
Advocacy
Capacity building
Research
Outreach
Fundraising
so that we can utilize our diverse synergies to drive the Chapter's agenda.

Regards
Charles Oloo

Picking up from the discussion we had in December, where we had an event
but no information, I was hoping that we could assist to make our online
presence felt.
Compare our website http://isoc.or.ke/ with Switzerland, that only came up
on or around Sep 2012 http://www.isoc.ch/
Hata contacts sisi hatuna (no email!!!!). No wonder the journalist who
wrote on ISOC's launch gave whatever information he had.
So, again, how can we assist to make ISOC Ke have an online presence?

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