<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Excellent website work<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you to our colleague in the UK for the work and the board from driving it</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Now it is up to each of us to work on our own portion of the site or to connect it to your own site</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Diverse languages are also an option so that you can put your site up in your national language and if you need support in translating to other languages Martin connected us with Translators without borders.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I look forward to reading and exploring our sites and sharing them with the world</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am a little overwhelmed by twitter but i am on and trying</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With respect, Larry</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 8, 2015, at 09:42, Isabel Delamaza <<a href="mailto:isadelamaza@gmail.com" class="">isadelamaza@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Congratulations!!!!!, great website<div class="">regards</div><div class="">Isabel de la Maza </div><div class="">ICA CHILE </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">2015-09-07 9:24 GMT-04:00 Martin Gilbraith (ICAI) <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:president@ica-international.org" target="_blank" class="">president@ica-international.org</a>></span>:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I am excited to launch the new ICAI website today! <strong class="">P</strong></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif" class=""><strong class="">lease do</strong> take a look
around, and share comments on <a href="http://www.ica-international.org/" target="_blank" class="">the site</a> or<span class=""> </span>contact us<span class=""> </span>directly with your
feedback and sugegstions.<br class="">
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best wishes,<br class="">
Martin<br class="">
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Welcome to the new ICAI new website, launched today! This new
site is designed to provide an engaging platform for member
ICAs and ICA colleagues to communicate with each other and
with the wider world. We hope that you will like it, and and
that you will use it and share it!</font></p><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="">Everything that you
used to find on the ICAI site is still available somewhere,
including online archives of our <a title="Winds and Waves
archive" href="http://www.ica-international.org/2014/01/01/winds-waves-magazine-archive/" target="_blank" class="">Winds & Waves</a> magazine and monthly
news bulletin the <a href="http://www.ica-international.org/2014/01/01/global-buzz-archive/" target="_blank" class="">Global Buzz</a>. If you can’t find what you
are looking for, feel free to <a href="http://www.ica-international.org/contact-us/" target="_blank" class="">contact us</a> to ask. Read on for an
overview of some of what you can already find here, some of
what is coming and some of what will be possible for the
future.</font></p><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><strong class="">On the</strong>
<strong class=""><a href="http://www.ica-international.org/" target="_blank" class="">Home page</a></strong> you will find the
latest tweets and news updatates from ICAI and our members
around the world, plus featured news posts and publications,
and menus and a search function to help you to navigate the
site. You can also opt to have Google auto-translate the
entire site into another language of your choice. We may want
to add a calendar here, for ICAI and members to publicise
their events.</font></p><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="">The news posts you
will find already here are mostly drawn from recent issues of
our current monthly bulletin the <a href="http://www.ica-international.org/2014/01/01/global-buzz-archive/" target="_blank" class="">Global Buzz</a>. The new site will enable <a href="http://www.ica-international.org/about-us/our-global-network/" target="_blank" class="">member ICAs</a> to log in and post their
news updates and photos directly, whenever they have news to
share, and a monthly digest will then be emailed to Global
Buzz subscribers. There will be a role to play for volunteer
editors to support members to do this, at least at first, and
to monitor members’ own websites and social media posts for
news and stories to re-publish here – so if you might be
interested in such a role, please <a href="http://www.ica-international.org/contact-us/" target="_blank" class="">contact us</a>.</font></p><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><strong class=""><a href="http://www.ica-international.org/about-us/" target="_blank" class="">About us</a></strong> is substantially
updated to reflect how ICAI now operates since we introduced
our present <a href="http://www.ica-international.org/about-us/our-global-strategy/" target="_blank" class="">peer to peer</a> approach in 2010. Still to
come soon are individual profiles for each Board member to
complete and maintain, that will be linked to <a href="http://www.ica-international.org/about-us/our-global-board/" target="_blank" class="">Our global Board</a> and to <a href="http://www.ica-international.org/contact-us/" target="_blank" class="">Contact us</a>. I hope we will also add a
members’ section here, to share internal ICA policy,
governance and other documents with members only.</font></p><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><strong class=""><a href="http://www.ica-international.org/ica-worldwide/" target="_blank" class="">ICA Worldwide</a></strong> provides a
platform for member ICAs to share and update their profiles,
to connect with each other and enable others to connect with
them. At present it includes just a very limited profile of
each member, drawn from their response to ICAI’s recent global
membership survey (and in some cases from their own websites),
and email contacts only for their ICAI representatives on our
global email list. Over the coming weeks and months, <a href="http://www.ica-international.org/about-us/our-global-board/" target="_blank" class="">ICAI Board</a> members will be supporting
members to log in to complete and update their profiles
themselves by completing a simple form. In future, members
will be asked to update their profile at least annually, as
they complete and update the annual membership survey in the
same way. Members will also be able to create additional
pages and sub-pages (in whatever language they choose), in
order to use their profile as a mini website of their own if
they wish. I hope that we will be arrange also for members’
own news updates to appear on their own profile pages.</font></p><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><strong class=""><a href="http://www.ica-international.org/conferences/" target="_blank" class="">Conferences</a></strong> at present
includes just a brief overview of the quadrennial Global
Conference on Human Development that has ICAI has convened
since 1984, and of the most recent hosted by ICA Nepal in
2012. Our new <a href="http://www.ica-international.org/about-us/our-global-structures/" target="_blank" class="">2016 Global Conference committee</a> will be
able to create and maintain additional pages here for our next
conference.</font></p><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><strong class=""><a href="http://www.ica-international.org/category/publications/" target="_blank" class="">Publications</a></strong> includes links
to our archives of <a href="http://www.ica-international.org/2014/01/01/winds-waves-magazine-archive/" target="_blank" class="">Winds & Waves</a> magazine, the<a href="http://www.ica-international.org/2014/01/01/global-buzz-archive/" target="_blank" class=""> Global Buzz</a>, and our pre-2010
newsletter <a href="http://www.ica-international.org/2014/01/01/network-exchange-archive/" target="_blank" class="">Network Exchange</a>, plus the 2012 book of
ICA Nepal <a href="http://www.ica-international.org/2014/01/02/changing-lives-changing-societies/" target="_blank" class="">Changing Lives Changing Societies</a> and
the new 2015 <a href="http://www.ica-international.org/2015/07/31/ica-handbook/" target="_blank" class="">ICA Handbook</a> of Terry Bergdall od ICA
USA. Future issues of Winds & Waves magazine and other
ICAI publications will be posted here, and ICAs will be
encouraged and supported to post their own publications here
as well.</font></p><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><strong class=""><a href="http://www.ica-international.org/top-facilitation/top-facilitation/" target="_blank" class="">ToP Facilitation</a></strong> includes an
overview of ICA’s Technology of Participation facilitation
methods, training and CTF certification, copied over from the
ToP pages of the previous site, and links to ICA ToP training
providers around the world. Our new <a href="http://www.ica-international.org/about-us/our-global-structures/" target="_blank" class="">Global ToP Policy Working Group</a> will be
able to use these pages, and new pages here as needed, to
communicate the new ICA global ToP policy that was adopted by
GA in July and to support its implementation by members. I
hope we will also be able to add a twitter feed from <a href="http://www.twitter.com/ToPfacilitation" target="_blank" class="">@ToPfacilitation</a> to this section, as we
have from <a href="http://www.twitter.com/icai" target="_blank" class="">@ICAI</a> on the Home page.</font></p><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><strong class="">We are
grateful</strong> to <a href="http://www.robertliverpool.com/" target="_blank" class="">Robert
Liverpool</a> for sharing his WordPress skills and
considerable volunteer time to build this site for us. Now it
is up to us to use it, make it our own and make it work for
us!</font></p><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><strong class="">We welcome
your feedback or suggestions </strong>for the website, and
any other queries. <strong class="">Most of all, we will welcome your
commitment to co-create the site with us</strong> by
entering and updating your own profiles, news posts and
publications, and by reading, sharing and engaging with what
you find here. <strong class="">Please do</strong> share comments on
the site, or<span class=""> </span><a href="http://www.ica-international.org/contact-us/" target="_blank" class="">contact us</a><span class=""> </span>directly.</font></p>
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