Dear All, Just to mention that blog posts at the At-Large Social Media Wiki Space at https://community.icann.org/display/alsocialmedia/At-Large+Social+Media+Post... or https://community.icann.org/pages/viewrecentblogposts.action?key=alsocialmed... are being reshared to the ICANN At-Large Community page on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge and the ICANN At-Large Twitter account at https://twitter.com/ICANN_AtLarge As of August 13 2013, there were 22 posts. Things to note: * preformatted text inserted into the blog post when copied and pasted by At-Large Staff when forwarding the emails from ALAC_announce. This can be offset by using programs such as PureText for Windows http://stevemiller.net/puretext/ or FormatMatch https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/formatmatch/id445211988?mt=12 which are freeware programs to remove the formatting when copying and pasting text. * ability to reedit posts. The current setting is for content to be reshared within an hour. This interval can be adjusted. This can be used to tweak information and also update posts when new information has been received. * the challenge to explain what is being asked of At-Large (or why should they care) Consider the original text that went to ALAC announce list at http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/alac-announce/2013q3/002827.html and the blog post I submitted at https://community.icann.org/x/2VV-Ag where I attempted to explain what the proposed ALAC statement was about. Some possible approaches: * updating the templates for the various types of announcements that are posted on ALAC_announce. Examples of templates - ALAC vote announcements. - ALAC vote results - ICANN news alerts - Meeting notices I've started a Acronym Helper which contains background information about the various acronyms used so far. https://community.icann.org/display/alsocialmedia/Acronym+Helper Obviously this needs to grow and can be used as a reference in posts. See https://community.icann.org/x/0FV-Ag as an example of using such background references and a possible template for meeting announcements. Note that the ability to use HTML formatting that could include HTML tables, video, audio or pictures allows for better presentation of material than plain text as ALAC_announce currently does. - With new templates that attempt to simplify and enhance the presentation of emails from ALAC_announce, At-Large Staff and/or/with a possible curation WG as mentioned on the last TTF call attempts to redraft the text that is published. The challenge is that this would take more time for Staff and/or/with the possible curation WG to do. Thoughts? Kind Regards, Dev Anand Teelucksingh