Telemedia is back for another year, and back in the sun!
This year’s World Telemedia event will be in Marbella 18-20th October 2016
Early Bird Offer: The first 50 delegates save £100 on their ticket price.
For further information on how to get your tickets to this event and to learn more about what will be on this year read the event information sheet: WT 2016 event info pack
AIME members can also claim their special discount – with details of how to claim this to follow shortly.
Thank you to all members who voted for this year’s positions for the AIME Board.
We are now delighted to announce the 2016-2017 Board membership. During the Board meeting, the positions of Vice Chair(s) was decided by the full Board. It was agreed that two vice chairs that represent the membership worked well and would continue in this new term.
New Board Positions:
Remaining Board:
The Board expressed its gratitude to Chris Newell (ImpulsePay) for his previous tenure and significant contribution to AIME’s activities.
PhonepayPlus today announced their 14th Code of Practice, accompanied by a statement and draft procedures. In AIME’s response to the consultation AIME identified, on behalf of membership, over 30 areas of concern or observations on the proposed operation of the Investigations and Sanctions part (part 4) of the 14th Code of Practice.
A majority of AIME input has been accepted and has resulted in either changes to the Code or the supporting procedures. The changes that were not accepted are accompanied by responses from PhonepayPlus that will serve as reference material for any future review of processes.
We are confident that PhonepayPlus has set out to ensure a fair and pragmatic process exists and our observations were mainly in the event that the process went wrong. AIME expects PhonepayPlus to have at its disposal a robust investigation and sanction procedure that targets the individuals and companies that seek to cause damage to consumers at the expense of the well behaved providers that make up AIME’s membership.
Our concerns for members who fund the operation of PhonepayPlus are that the process is economical, legally sound and fair.
In the unlikely event that a member will have a case raised against them, that there is an opportunity for an early settlement akin to the “on the spot” fine for a minor traffic offence.
If the process has gone wrong for a provider, we want to ensure that there is an appeals process to allow for economical review of a case without the need for a judicial review. AIME has successfully won this change amongst others.
We expect the 14th Code to go live in July 2016 after Ofcom and EU consultation. The full PhonepayPlus statement can be read here:
Charity Text Donation Seminar a SuccessAIME and PhonepayPlus jointly ran a free one day Charity Text Donation Seminar in London on Friday 19th February. This was well attended by many small charities who came to learn more about how to use text donations to improve their fundraising, make sure that their marketing campaigns are compliant, learn the importance of increasing donations by Gift Aid and to ensure the audit standards are good. As well as regulatory updates from PhonepayPlus, there were highly informative presentations from Telefonica, OpenMarket, Instagiv, Cymba, Vir2, Open Fundraising, Fonix and BBC Children in Need. With positive feedback from the attendees it has been suggested that this event is run on an annual basis to ensure the spread of the successful intelligence sharing. A link to the presentations for the day is here. You can also read about the event on PhonepayPlus’ blog here. Feedback from the day: I attend the Charity Seminar last week and I just wanted to say thank you for such a well-organised, informative day. It was really useful and I hope there will be a similar seminar next year! Samaritans Thank you for organising Friday. It felt like a good session, let’s do it again soon. Open Fundraising Great event. Informative, relevant and enjoyable. Can’t ask for more! OpenMarket Well done on organising such a great day. RSM2000 This event was so informative and useful, and should definitely be an annual event! Parkinsons UK |
We now have several members who have stepped forward for a position on the AIME Board.
You can see their bios and manifesto’s by clicking the attached link. 2016 Candidates bio doc
Voting for the candidates will go live on the 29th February at which point we will then call for members to cast their votes using the link we will provide. You can then cast your vote until the 13th March.
There is still time to put your candidacy forward for consideration if this is of interest to you but nominations will close on the 29th February. Please take the time to read the Board Responsibilities document before submitting your candidacy.
