Membership Equation

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Membership Equation

• Increased Value of ISOC
• Increased Value of ISOC Membership
• Increased ISOC Members

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Value Proposition Metrics
Individual Membership
Knowledge
Community
Power
Wealth
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WHO

• Membership in the Los Angeles Chapter is open to
  all individuals and organizations who are members
  of the Internet Society (ISOC).  
• Local, non-voting membership, is open to all
  individuals who will also be granted e-Membership
  in ISOC, also non-voting status.  Such local,
  non-voting membership is also offered to members
  of associated organizations in our area.
• All Corporate Members and Sponsors  are subject
  to review and acceptance by the ISOC-LA Board of
  Directors or a committee duly designated or
  organized by the Board of Directors.

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WHAT

• Voting status of, and dues for, membership in the
  Internet Society (ISOC) are established by ISOC,
  the international organization, and not by the
  Internet Society Los Angeles Chapter (ISOC-LA).
• Voting status of, and dues for, membership in
  ISOC-LA are established by ISOC-LA and not by
  ISOC.
• e-Membership in ISOC-LA is not the same as
  E-Membership in ISOC.  ISOC's E-Membership is
  offered to qualifying countries to allow
  individuals in these countries to participate in
  ISOC activities and receive certain benefits of
  membership. Prior to this initiative, many great
  people were excluded from ISOC's work because
  they could not afford the dues.  ISOC
  E-Membership includes ISOC voting privileges.

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e-Membership

• e-Membership in ISOC-LA  is a non-voting
  membership primarily offered to members of
  associated organizations and others who desire
  information about ISOC and ISOC-LA programs and
  activities and some level of participation in
  programs and activities.  Associated
  organizations are defined for ISOC-LA as those
  represented on the Industry Relations Committee
  of the Digital Coast Roundtable and others
  additionally recognized by the ISOC-LA Board of
  Directors.  Since this amounts to a new category
  of ISOC, membership, it is being introduced as a
  demonstration project.  The responsibility for
  all ISOC communication with e-Members will be
  assumed by ISOC-LA unless otherwise directed by
  ISOC.  The requirement for e-Membership is an
  email address to be added to both the ISOC and
  ISOC-LA member email lists, a desire to receive
  information about ISOC and ISOC-LA programs and
  activities, and an interest in the Internet and
  the goals and objectives of ISOC and ISOC-LA.

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DUES

• ISOC-LA provides the ability to combine dues with
  ISOC.  If a person is already an ISOC member and
  wants to be a voting member of ISOC-LA, payment
  of the dues for the next year of the combined
  local and international dues will provide local,
  voting membership in ISOC-LA, to be effective
  through the period of their international
  membership.  In other words, local dues for one
  year will cover the period of ISOC membership, up
  to almost 2 years for the initial period of
  combined membership.
• The amount of combined dues for ISOC and ISOC-LA
  is simply the result of adding the appropriate
  membership level for ISOC membership for one year
  to the amount for the appropriate membership
  level for ISOC-LA membership for one year.

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Alternate Chapter Dues

• Because a person or organization my choose to
  become a member of ISOC and not choose to be a
  member of ISOC-LA, our demonstration project is
  identifying those individuals and organizations. 
  We offer them the ability to become a member of
  ISOC-LA but the ISOC-LA portion of their dues is
  held in a separate fund for assisting in the
  formation of new ISOC Chapters that may be more
  suitable to their needs.  These individuals and
  organizations may have a vote on matters
  involving the use of the alternate Chapter funds
  but will not have a vote for the Officers of
  ISOC-LA.

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Individual Dues
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Organizational Member Dues
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Benefits

• Receive Electronic Communications/Publications
• Program, Meeting, and Activity Notifications
• Inside ISOC
• Public Policy Statements, Results of Research,
  etc.
• Participate in Programs and Activities
• Receive Recognition of Individual and
  Organizational Efforts
• The Vote
• Receive Physical Publications
• Ability to Provide Input to Development of Policy
• Ability to Display ISOC/ISOC-LA Logos
• Ability to Sponsor Specific Programs and
  Activities
• Focus is on Value to the Member