[Membership-affairs] Sending a reminder email to fill the NCUC survey

Tue Mar 24 17:01:18 CET 2015

The change is fine with me. Could Maryam kindly adjust the text accordingly?

Walid
On Mar 24, 2015 9:22 AM, "William Drake" <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:

>  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….?
>
>  BD
>
>  On Mar 23, 2015, at 8:15 PM, Walid AL-SAQAF <wsaqaf at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>  Hi Maryam,
>
>  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.
>
>  -----------
>
>  Dear <name>,
>
> 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:
>
> http://goo.gl/XlwyQL
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> The deadline is in just over one week (March 31), which is approaching
> fast. So please fill the survey at your earliest convenience.
>
> 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
>  walid.al-saqaf at ims.su.se <walid.al-saqaf at ims.su.se> .
>
> We thank you in advance for your prompt action.
>
> -------
>  Best.
>
>  Sincerely,
>
> Walid
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Maryam Bakoshi <maryam.bakoshi at icann.org
> > wrote:
>
>>  Dear Walid,
>>
>>  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.
>> 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.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>>  Maryam Bakoshi
>> Secretariat - NCSG, NCUC & NPOC
>> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
>>
>>  E: Maryam.bakoshi at icann.org
>> S: Maryam.bakoshi.icann
>> T: +44 7737698036
>>
>>
>> On 23 Mar 2015, at 08:37, Walid AL-SAQAF <wsaqaf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>   Hi Bill,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Only mail list admins can extract the emails and do it.
>>
>> W.
>> On Mar 23, 2015 8:04 AM, "William Drake" <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>>  Bill
>>>
>>>  On Mar 22, 2015, at 4:07 PM, Stephanie Perrin <
>>> stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>  hmn.  That is a wee bit low, isnt it?   we should think up promo
>>> ideas...
>>> Stephanie
>>> On 15-03-22 4:43 AM, Walid AL-SAQAF wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Maryam,
>>>
>>>  Hope you're doing well. Can you send out a reminder to fill out the
>>> NCUC User Engagement survey? The response rate is still below 10%, which
>>> worries me.
>>>
>>>  Best.
>>>
>>>    Sincerely,
>>>
>>>  Walid
>>>
>>>  ------
>>>
>>>  Walid Al-Saqaf, PhD
>>> Department of Media Studies
>>> Stockholm University - Sweden
>>>
>>>
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