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Dear members and friends of ipernity,
1) For the beginning of autumn we have updated the pictures on our homepage to the Autumn Picture Collection 2021. We would like to thank all club members who have contributed to this. The pictures can also be viewed as a YouTube Slide Show.
2) Please give a Like to this slide show if you enjoy it. This will help to increase ipernity's relevance on YouTube which is the second largest search engine in the world. Thus, you help to attract new users. Please also subscribe to our YouTube channel so that you get knowledge about other new contributions from ipernity members. You are also welcome to enrich this channel with promotional videos of your own making.
3) You are cordially invited to set your camera to 16:9 format every now and then in the coming weeks in order to shoot attractive new autumn pictures especially for the homepage. You can post the best ones in the group Ipernity homepage - picture proposals.
4) As Sami Serola isn't in charge any longer, we need a project leader*) to
5) It has been reported to us that the Chrome browser has not been displaying ipernity content embedded in third-party websites for some time now. This can be fixed by adjusting the Chrome browser accordingly. To save yourself the trouble, we again recommend Firefox as the default browser. It is fast, secure and rarely makes any problems for us.
Thank you for your involvement.
Your ima team
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*) As Social Media Coordinator is not necessary that you know all networks in detail or actively use them yourself. But general basic knowledge of how social networks work and the unspoken social rules on the respective networks should be familiar to you. Similarly, it is not necessary for you to be in charge of all social channels on your own.
**) We currently operate the following active social media channels:
- 'Amis d'ipernity' on Facebook
- 'ipernity' on Facebook
- 'ipernity' on Instagram
- 'ipernity' on LinkedIn
- 'ima' on LinkedIN (managed by ima team / Bergfex)
- 'ipernity' on Twitter (managed by ima team / Kiezkicker)
- 'ipernity photo club' on YouTube (managed by ima team / Bergfex)
Sami was one of the 6 founding members of the Ipernity Members Association (IMA) in February 2017. Although he is not an IT specialist, he successfully performed the mandate of webmaster during the first two years of the recovery. This is because he was and still is an excellent expert on our website. In numerous blogs he has eagerly shared his knowledge with all of us. Many have gladly sought advice from him. After handing over his mandate to Rob Stamp, he worked as an advisor especially for updating the completely outdated FAQ and cleaning up among the large number of abandoned groups. He was a very good team player and an excellent advisor on improving the user experience in 2019/2020. In addition, he was a great support in organising and running the annual general meetings.
All this, in addition to his professional work as a teacher at the University of Tampere and his duties as a family father, has often stretched him to the limit. It is more than understandable that after 4 years of great commitment to our project, he would like to devote more time to his family again. This can only be done by consciously reducing his online time, which he is doing right now. We in the ima team also miss him. But we know that he is fine. And that is the most important thing.
Living means letting go again and again. Letting go means getting oneself back. Sami gets more space again for what else is important to him. We get the chance to fill the gaps he leaves anew. Just as we filled the gaps left by Christan Bucher, Claus-Peter Unterberger, Don Sutherland, Eric Desjours, Lutz Petersen, Pam Johnson and Rob Stamp.
Our project has been a community project from the beginning. While it needs the commitment and leadership of individuals, it needs even more the optimism and support of many. As long as there is, it will continue.
With this in mind, we hope that some will now come forward to continue Sami's various projects with vigour: The Group Deletion Project, serving on the Ambassador Pictures jury, but most of all, taking care of social media, which we ask for in the article above. We as the ima team are counting on you. This is your website. Go for it!
Many thanks to the Team for the complete list of all previous ima team members who have shown exemplary commitment to ipernity.
Without you guys, this site would no longer exist.
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