<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear IVOA member,</div><div><br></div><div>Christophe announced in Trieste that the Exec was planning to renew the standing committee in charge of the IVOA newsletter and to extend its responsibility to prepare a proposal to the Exec on how to increase the visibility of the IVOA in the social media. </div><div><br></div><div>Social media are an effective channel for communication, and are becoming increasingly important for professional information. The IVOA should have a social media presence, to publicize its events (workshops, meetings,) and developments (new standards, success implementations, new and updated tools, availability of astronomical data through VO protocols, etc.) </div><div><br></div><div>The purview of this media group will include:</div><div>- Producing the IVOA newsletter twice a year</div><div>- Making a proposal to the Exec on how the IVOA could be present in the social media: where to publish (twitter? Facebook? LinkedIn? blog?), what to publish, frequency of publication, suggestions regarding who would be in charge of these activities, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Pending Exec comments and approval, the members of this group should envisage themselves as the primary responsible for enacting the IVOA social media presence.</div><div><br></div><div>The IVOA Exec is soliciting applications for membership in this group.</div><div>If you are interested, please send me e-mail. It would be useful if you stated your particular interest, experience, and time availability.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>-pepi</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Giuseppina Fabbiano<div><i>Senior Astrophysicist<br>Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics</i></div></div></div></div></div>
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