<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hmmm….Walid I’m wondering if it wouldn’t be more effective if you wrote a para rationale saying this was prompted by community discussions on list and the efforts of volunteers to help other volunteers etc, rather than saying "We hope you would recognize the effort exerted,” which could be read as sort of finger wagging….?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">BD<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 23, 2015, at 8:15 PM, Walid AL-SAQAF <<a href="mailto:wsaqaf@GMAIL.COM" class="">wsaqaf@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Maryam,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Below is a text I propose to send to NCUC members individually. If you have an automated merge tool for each individual recipient, you can replace the actual name in the "Dear <name>," below. Otherwise, you could just have it start with "Dear NCUC member,". Feel free to edit the below as you see appropriate.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-----------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dear <name>,</div><div class=""><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class="">If you have not yet filled in the NCUC member engagement survey sent a couple of weeks ago via the NCUC-DISCUSS mail list, this is a reminder so you could do so as soon as possible via this link:</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class=""><a href="http://goo.gl/XlwyQL" target="_blank" class="">http://goo.gl/XlwyQL</a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class="">We hope you would recognize the effort exerted by the NCUC membership affairs team to construct the survey and seek your perspective, which you could provide anonymously.</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class="">Filling in the survey will probably require no more than 10 minutes of your time. The more respondents we get, the better we can assess the needs of our members and suggest potential steps to improve their engagement.</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class="">The deadline is in just over one week (March 31), which is approaching fast. So please fill the survey at your earliest convenience.</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class="">If you have any questions or comments on the survey, please send an email to the coordinator of the membership affairs team Walid Al-Saqaf on<a href="mailto:walid.al-saqaf@ims.su.se" target="_blank" class=""> walid.al-saqaf@ims.su.se</a> .</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class="">We thank you in advance for your prompt action. </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class="">-------</p></div><div class="">Best.</div><img src="http://t.signalecinque.com/e1t/o/5/f18dQhb0S7ks8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9gXrN7sKj6v4dZ14W63RyC23Lr71xN5wLPS8QFLCHW1t4L0x1k1H6H0?si=4815485689397248&pi=8a8308af-a01e-40e3-f9c9-eff57e35765f" style="display:none!important" height="1" width="1" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class="">Sincerely,<br class=""><br class="">Walid<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">
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<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Maryam Bakoshi <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:maryam.bakoshi@icann.org" target="_blank" class="">maryam.bakoshi@icann.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="">I contacted Tapani, last week with respect to sending a mass email like we do for the elections and he said it wasn't a problem to do, only he was busy but asked if it was urgent. I told him we would want to send it out Today. </div>
<div class="">Please let me know if it's ok to use the previous content (text) and I would kindly ask Tapani to help send out the emails. </div>
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<div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">Hi Bill,</p><p dir="ltr" class="">I can do so but still think that a better option is to send direct emails to each NCUC member (via bcc) without the [NCUC-DISCUSS] heading.
</p><p dir="ltr" class="">After all, it's an administrative rather than a discussion issue and with a header like [REMINDER], it could catch attention and not be archived or sent to spam.
</p><p dir="ltr" class="">Only mail list admins can extract the emails and do it.</p><p dir="ltr" class="">W.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 23, 2015 8:04 AM, "William Drake" <<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch" target="_blank" class="">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" class="">
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Agree, Walid I would suggest instead that you at MAT coordinator send a reminder with CAPS in the subject line encouraging participation and perhaps providing a paragraph of background rationale to motive people. Chest possible?
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<div class="">On Mar 22, 2015, at 4:07 PM, Stephanie Perrin <<a href="mailto:stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca" target="_blank" class="">stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca</a>> wrote:</div>
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