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Created: Aug 23, 2007
Updated: Mar 17, 2008
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Omidyar.net

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       Coming Soon! Omidyar.net on WiserEarth Groups

For the omidyar.net group on WiserEarth - link to http://www.wiserearth.org/group/omidyar/section/main


Dear omidyar.net members,

Welcome to WiserEarth!  We'd like to make our site a place a useful place for you to continue to network and collaborate with people everywhere.  We would love to be a space for you to spark amazing discussions and for those working on social change and environmental justice to be co-participatants in your groups and projects.

Below is a sample template (and public wiki) of how the omidyar.net Groups page could look like in the near future.  Please be patient with us as this feature will be released in the near future.  We welcome your feedback, and we want to serve your needs, so please let us know how we can continue improving this site!

Peace, love and justice
The WiserEarth team

For questions and enquiries about WiserEarth groups, Leave a comment at the bottom of the page or
send a message or e-mail to one of the editors below::


MichaelK  at kwan [at] naturalcapital.org

Melinda  at kramer [at] naturalcapital.org

How to get started


1.  Join WiserEarth today.
2. Add this group to your network by clicking on the "Add to your network" link on the top-right of this page.
3. Select Visualize Network to see who else is connected and connect to them as well.
                                                                          

Features of WiserEarth Groups


By building a group on WiserEarth, your members will have access to a growing body of relevant data that will be filtered into the group on an ongoing basis. You will be able to grow your network, participate in discussions, and create content relevant to your group.  Upcoming features on WiserEarth groups includes a set of automatically generated statistics which pulls data from the WiserEarth information commons (e.g., resources, events, jobs, discussions, users etc.) and the ability to:

  • visualize connections
  • share resources, events and wikipages
  • post news alerts
  • track threaded discussions
  • invite new participants
  • have a brandable URL (E.G. omidyar.wiserearth.org)
  • join multiple groups, create public/restricted/private groups
  • co-create a group page with WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editing
  • send internal messages and group emails

omidyar.net members on WiserEarth 


                                                                                             
                     David Braden         Julie Caldwell             Annie                Haney Armstrong       Mark Grimes             Chris Macrae

                                                                                             
                Linda Nowakowski        Steve Rose          Christina Jordan      Michael Maranda       Cindy Cooper           more...



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Areas of Focus

Communication Training  |  Community Participation  |  Community Resources  |  Information and Communication Technology  |  Microfinance  |  Organizational Funding  |  Organizational Support and Management  

  •  The areas of focus are the portals are where you can share your work, knowledge and experience with others who are working on similar issues.  The nearly 107,000 organizations on WiserEarth are each tagged with at least one of the 372 specific area of focus.  This makes it the most advanced search tool available in the environmental and social justice fields.

The omidyar.net community was hosted by Omidyar Network between 2004 and 2007:

Omidyar Network


Omidyar® Network is a mission-based organization established by eBay founder, Pierre Omidyar, and his wife, Pam. Since 2004, we have made both for-profit and nonprofit investments to advance our mission, and we are currently expanding beyond investments to include public policy and other areas that enhance the organization's reach and impact.

Mission, Philosophy, and Approach
Omidyar Network believes that all individuals have the innate potential to make life better for themselves and their communities. Certain conditions increase the likelihood for individuals to discover and act on that potential, and consequently improve the quality of their lives as they define it. Such "enabling" conditions include equal access to information, resources and tools, the ability to connect to others with shared interests, and a sense of ownership over outcomes. Our work is focused on building and sustaining environments characterized by these conditions.

We approach any environment or context (e.g., microfinance) as a system that is comprised of individuals, institutions, supporting structures, and the relationships among them. We believe the most efficient way to build, enhance and sustain the enabling conditions of a system is to apply a broad combination of tools and to engage institutions and structures, not only within but also across sectors--public, private, and social. It is our belief that each sector has a distinct and vital role to play.

As the actors within a system become aware of how the conditions of access, connection and ownership help them achieve their goals, we believe they will be more likely to cultivate those conditions. Over time, this cultivation will facilitate more and more positive effects in the lives of individuals and communities. This is a virtuous cycle, one that we expect will scale exponentially among increasing numbers of people and in different contexts. Ultimately, we hope that people everywhere will constructively engage with each other to pursue what they care about most, resulting in a global society that is continually advancing social progress.





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haneyarmstrong 9 months ago
If anyone wants to start a omidyar.net WiserEarth group - now that the group feature is implemented - let me know when you do and I'll suggest that we link to it from the omidyar.net home page.
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MarkGrimes 11 months ago
I see, I didn't understand it was just a mockup. Gotcha. I did offer Melinda Kramer the idea of starting a WiserEarth thread here: http://www.ned.com/home/ and then once the functionality is baked in here, it could be announced in that thread. Anyway, just and idea and keep up the great work.
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MichaelK 11 months ago
Hi Mark, this is a rough mock template of a WiserEarth groups page with some explanations on whats going on. If you want I can add your profile pic to the Members section. Anyone can edit this template though, since its a wiki. The actual groups pages are near completion and will have limits on who can edit pages.
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MarkGrimes 11 months ago
How do you join this group? (sorry, long day)
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