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<div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">David Olive <<a href="mailto:david.olive@icann.org">david.olive@icann.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>[Soac-infoalert] A Communications Update for ICANN 51</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">October 3, 2014 at 7:00:32 PM GMT+2<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">"<a href="mailto:soac-infoalert@icann.org">soac-infoalert@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:soac-infoalert@icann.org">soac-infoalert@icann.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Duncan Burns <<a href="mailto:duncan.burns@icann.org">duncan.burns@icann.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Dear Community Leaders:</div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Below are some short details on a few of the communications initiatives we're working on for ICANN 51 that might be of interest to you.</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">For this meeting, we're experimenting with a few new things to help us share information across the community and provide more opportunities to highlight work, sessions, upcoming events etc. and would welcome any suggestions or requests for profiling. We're going to try and include as many as the somewhat limited space will allow. </div><div style=""><br></div><div><span style="">The hashtag on social media will be<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><font color="#0000ff">#ICANN51</font>.</div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><font face="Calibri" size="3"><b><u>Newsletter</u></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><font face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">A twice-daily newsletter will be produced and emailed to attendees registered for ICANN 51. The morning edition will be released at approx 0600 PT and provide attendees with the latest news about the meeting schedule, profiles on community members, trending topics on social media, user-generated photos and meeting tips. The evening edition will be released at approx 2000 PT and provide highlights of the day’s events, social media posts, community stories and meeting related notices. The ICANN 51 Newsletter will rollout its first edition on October 11th. <o:p></o:p></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><font face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">While there is limited space, we encourage possible submissions for inclusions in the newsletter and will include as many as space allows, please contact: Jana Juginovic, (<a href="mailto:jana.juginovic@icann.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">jana.juginovic@icann.org</a>) or Natalie Schoer, Social Media Coordinator, (<a href="mailto:natalie.schoer@icann.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">natalie.schoer@icann.org</a>).<o:p></o:p></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><font face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><i><font face="Calibri" size="3"><b><u>Barker Channel</u></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></font></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><i><font face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><i><font face="Calibri" size="3">We will have monitors located throughout the meeting venue to provide a 24/7 display of meeting related information, which will include venue maps, social media feeds of ICANN’s Facebook and Twitter accounts, meeting schedules and important meeting notices.<o:p></o:p></font></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><i><font face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><i><font face="Calibri" size="3">To suggest possible feeds for the Barker Channel, please contact: Jana Juginovic, (<a href="mailto:jana.juginovic@icann.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">jana.juginovic@icann.org</a>) or Natalie Schoer, Social Media Coordinator, (<a href="mailto:natalie.schoer@icann.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">natalie.schoer@icann.org</a>). <o:p></o:p></font></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><i><font face="Calibri" size="3"> <o:p></o:p></font></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><i><font face="Calibri" size="3"><b><u>User Generated Photos</u></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></font></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><i><font face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><i><font face="Calibri" size="3">We will be soliciting community members to send us their own ICANN 51 pictures to display on the Barker Channel, in the Newsletter and post to ICANN’s social media accounts. ICANN fellows will also be helping to take pictures of attendees posing for photos of themselves holding a sign, which the attendee will write describing, in one sentence, why the Internet is important to them. We will also distribute these photos on the Barker Channel, social media accounts and in the newsletter.<o:p></o:p></font></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><i><font face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><i><font face="Calibri" size="3">Community photos can be tweeted to:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: blue;">#Pics4ICANN</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or submitted to the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/icann" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">ICANN 51 Flickr Group</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></font></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><i><font face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><b><u><i><font face="Calibri" size="3">Video Hubs<o:p></o:p></font></i></u></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><i><font face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><i><font face="Calibri" size="3">Picking up on the popularity of the video hubs used during the London meeting at the Public Forum and the other two main-room Thursday sessions, we are again teaming up with the Internet Society (ISOC) and our community to host video hubs at Thursday’s major sessions. The hubs will be located in regions where stakeholders would have difficulty accessing our usual Adobe Connect streams, either because of lack of availability or the expense incurred from using a high-speed connection.<o:p></o:p></font></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><font face="Calibri" size="3"><br></font></div></div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Very happy to discuss any questions people might have.</div><div style=""><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Duncan</div></div><div style=""><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">Duncan Burns<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">Vice President, Global Communications<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">Direct Line +1 202 570 7135<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">Email:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:duncan.burns@icann.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">duncan.burns@icann.org</a></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><a href="x-msg://49/www.icann.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">www.icann.org</a></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><a href="http://twitter.com/rdburns" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">@rdburns</a></div></div></div></div></span></div></span>_______________________________________________<br>soac-infoalert mailing list<br><a href="mailto:soac-infoalert@icann.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">soac-infoalert@icann.org</a><br><a href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/soac-infoalert" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/soac-infoalert</a></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>