[At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Results of the Voting for ALAC Nominating Committee 2008 Appointments

[Thompson, Darlene]

LOL - yes, and I go to that page just EVERY day looking for new postings
and such.  Get real.  Who has time for that?  If we even got those
little notifications that things have been changed or new pages put up,
like for the NA-Discuss list then we would all be aware.

Other than that, I agree with your points below and keenly look forward
to the improved communications,

D

Darlene A. Thompson
Community Access Program Administrator
Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP
c/o P.O. Box 1000, Station 910
Iqaluit, NU  X0A 0H0
Phone:  (867) 975-6531
Fax:  (867) 979-8870
dthompson at gov.nu.ca

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Ashton-Hart [mailto:nick.ashton-hart at icann.org] 
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 2:08 PM
To: Thompson, Darlene
Cc: Vittorio Bertola; Evan Leibovitch; At-Large Worldwide
Subject: Re: [At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Results of the Voting for ALAC
Nominating Committee 2008 Appointments


On 28 Sep 2007, at 16:53, Thompson, Darlene wrote:

> Nick, I have a day job and I do not have time to be consulting the  
> Wiki all the time - especially for a page I didn't even know  
> existed or should exist.  I also find it almost impossible to find  
> ANYTHING at all on there.  And English is my mother tongue.  I  
> REALLY feel for the other regions.  Or am I just really new and  
> stupid?  Since we have a Secretariats list, perhaps important pages  
> like this can be flagged to the Secretariats so that they can then  
> choose which ones to clutter their region's in-boxes with.  I  
> *know* how busy you are but I think that this is kinda important.

There are two questions here to my mind:

1) Can we (staff, Secretariats, ALAC) coordinate more effectively -  
and can staff support facilitate better coordination?
2) Can online resources be leveraged more effectively to provide  
information faster?

I have no doubt the answer to both these questions is "YES!" And of  
course a part of the whole point of having Secretariats and ALAC in  
LA is to work on just this kind of issue.

On (2) there is ongoing work to help make the online tools both  
richer and easier to use (also in one place...).

One thing is a bit worrying though, the link to the page for Nomcom  
2008 is smack in the middle in large letters on st.icann.org/alac.  
Perhaps you're looking somewhere else?