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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Sent on behalf of Scott Pinzon</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br>The redesign of ICANN.ORG <</span><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue'><a href="http://ICANN.ORG"><span lang=EN-US>http://ICANN.ORG</span></a></span></u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>> 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 lfo3'><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 lfo3'><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 lfo3'><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 lfo3'><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 lfo3'><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><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6'><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 lfo6'><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 lfo6'><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 lfo6'><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 lfo6'><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 lfo6'><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 lfo6'><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></ul><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 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</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>