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Dear BC Members,<br>
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Please find below an announcement sent on behalf of Scott Pinzon,
regarding the redesign of ICANN.ORG<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Kind Regards,
Benedetta Rossi
BC Secretariat
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsobc/Home">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsobc/Home</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.bizconst.org">www.bizconst.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bc-secretariat@icann.org">bc-secretariat@icann.org</a></pre>
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The redesign of ICANN.ORG <</span><u><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://ICANN.ORG"><span
lang="EN-US">http://ICANN.ORG</span></a></span></u><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">> just went live today, 27 February. <br>
<br>
</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The
new information architecture arranges the resources that
ICANN.ORG offers in a more logical style. More than 38,000
pages and files were carefully examined and migrated into the
best locations, following extensive consultation with the
ICANN community:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<ol start="1" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3
level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Nearly
300 responses to the site survey conducted by The Revere
Group </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3
level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">More
than two dozen in-depth interviews with SO and AC members </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3
level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">A
series of live briefings (with Q&A) across two ICANN
public meetings </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3
level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">At
least three briefings to Board Directors (via the Public
Participation Committee) </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3
level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Two
public webinars requesting input and concerns</span><o:p></o:p></li>
</ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>
Some of the new features on the site include:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo2"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">All
visitors can now move directly from ICANN’s home page to
your SO or AC site in one click . </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo2"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The
latest Board activity and the most recent topics open for
Public Comment now show on the home page. </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo2"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The
new Planet ICANN feed mixes almost every RSS and Twitter
feed from ICANN in one ever-updating resource, providing a
handy tool for monitoring ICANN developments broadly. </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo2"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The
new Stay Connected bar provides site visitors with easier
social media integration to ICANN than we’ve had before. </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo2"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Across
HTML portions of the site (thus, not in PDFs), you can now
hover your cursor over that puzzling acronym, and what it
stands for will pop up, spelled out, as a “tool tip.” </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo2"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">For
the first time, ICANN’s site can auto-detect when it is
accessed via a mobile device such as a tablet or smart
phone, and present a view speciically tailored for the
visitor’s type of device. </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo2"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">On
the home page’s multi-lingual bar, you can click your chosen
language to immediately see an aggregation of all materials
available in that language. The most recent documents top
the list.</span><o:p></o:p></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>
Note that the changes affect, quite literally, ICANN.ORG, and
not other ICANN sites such as gnso.icann.org, alac.icann.org,
the wiki sites, and so on.<br>
<br>
If you’d like to provide feedback or ask questions about the
new look and feel, please feel free to email <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="communications@icann.org">communications@icann.org</a><br>
<br>
Thanks also for your patience and support during the careful
process that has brought us to this milestone. We’re far from
done, but I hope you'll see the newly redesigned site as a
significant improvement in making ICANN’s work more
understandable and inclusive. <br>
<br>
Best Regards,<br>
<br>
Scott Pinzon<br>
Director of Marketing and Outreach<br>
ICANN<br>
<br>
<br>
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