May 2021 - bc-communications

Welcome to the BC Communications Committee
by Lawrence O. Olawale-Roberts May 18, 2021

May 18, 2021

Dear BC Communications Committee Member, Congratulations! You made it to the BC's Communications Committee, now let's get started to work. On behalf of ExComm I would like to start by thanking you for volunteering your time and expertise to serve the BC in this capacity. I will be your liaison to the ExComm and in collaboration with Staff (Chantelle, Brenda and Joseph) we will do all in our capacity to help you through your mandate. Kindly forgive the lengthy nature of this mail, subsequent ones would be brief. The first assignment for this Committee would be the election of a Chair from amongst the three elected members namely Vivek Goyal, Yusuph Kileo and Toba Obaniyi. Kindly let me know if you have a choice for a consensus candidate otherwise an election time and ballots will be shared amongst the three of you eligible. Prior to now, Chantelle has managed the BC's Social media handles while Joseph helps coordinate updates to the BC website. These tasks would now fall under the preview of the Communications Sub-committee as would others. The Communications committee would be responsible for the creation and publication of a softcopy version of our BC Newsletter (BC Digest…or a catchier name you may suggest) envisioned to be published periodically every month, whilst a hardcopy version before every ICANN public meeting will be sustained. The electronic newsletter asides featuring news items around the work of the BC and what some BC members in their various spheres of endeavor are undertaking, could also advertise opportunities small businesses within our membership would love to explore. A regular feature could be a spotlight on an existing member of the BC, whilst new members joining the BC could also be featured in a section. It is envisaged that a Mailchimp account would be needed for this purpose. The BC Communications Committee is expected to help in the creation of content that can serve as outreach tool kits across a variety of mediums. Such content would be fit for use in our periodic newsletters, on our social media channels and on the BC website. This team would constantly need to review the existing BC website and recommend improvements to all spheres of the site including all social media handles of the BC. Your mandate includes ensuring all current archives are preserved and that BC website remains user friendly and fully automated to meet all future need. The task of keeping all information on our social media handles up to date also lies with this committee. Would a Hootesuite account or similar be appropriate for the management of our online presence. Apologies for double posting this mail, but its to ensure everyone gets it. Going forward only the Committee's mailing list address (bc-communications(a)icann.org) would be copied. Once again on behalf of ExCom and the BC, I thank you all for your willingness to serve and to help lift the heavy work around our finance. Thanks All. Lawrence Olawale-Roberts. Vice-Chair Finance & Operations, BC. -- Lawrence Olawale-Roberts _Managing Director/CEO_ p: +2348056 3333 18 / 9 m: +2348070892705 a: Suite 7, 1st floor, Right Wing, Z.M.Plaza, Plot 1469, Ahmadu Bello Way, Area 11, Garki 2, Abuja, Nigeria. w: www.microboss.org [1] e: lawrence(a)microboss.org [2] [3] [4] [5] This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be protected by legal, professional or other privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you should not store it, copy it, re-transmit it, use it or disclose its contents, but should return it to the sender immediately and delete your copy from your system. The views expressed are those of the sender and his company MicroBoss. Please note that whilst we scan all e-mails for viruses we cannot guarantee that any e-mail is virus-free. Links: ------ [1] http://www.microboss.org/ [2] https://www.facebook.com/Olawale.Roberts [3] https://twitter.com/lawrenceraves [4] https://ng.linkedin.com/in/lawrenceor [5] https://www.instagram.com/pstlawrence/

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ICANN 71 Newsletter Submission
by Lawrence Olawale-Roberts May 14, 2021

May 14, 2021

Dear Members, Kindly be reminded of the ongoing call for submission of articles to be published in the BC Newsletter for ICANN 71. The opportunity to submit your articles would close on the 21st of May next week. Warm regards, Lawrence.

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Timeline for production of ICANN 71 Newsletter.
by Lawrence Olawale-Roberts May 7, 2021

May 7, 2021

Dear Members, Many thanks for for the efforts that went into the production of the last BC newsletter. Work on the ICANN 71 version has started and members are invited to send in articles for this edition on or before the 21st of May (2 weeks). BC ICANN71 Newsletter production timeline: * 21 May. (Friday): * ExComm & Outreach stories due to Lawrence/Brenda; * Brenda to update/revise ICANN Organizational Chart and send to Cheryl (e.g., new/current ICANN Board of Directors and ICANN Community leaders) * 23 May (Sun.): Initial draft of fixed pages (ICANN Organizational Chart/Community leaders) received from Cheryl * 24 May (Mon.): Lawrence and Communications Committee to add revisions and send all articles to Cheryl for design * 1-3 June (Tue.-Thurs.): Lawrence and Communications Committee to review final draft for outstanding errors, and send to Cheryl for corrections. * 4 June (Fri.): Final draft received by Cheryl Members over the next week can also suggest a topic of high interest they would like to see featured in the ICANN 71 edition of our newsletter. Kindly send your articles to me or the Communications mailing list at bc-communications(a)icann.org Lawrence

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