HOW TO BETTER UTILIZE WISEREARTH Janine's observations after 17 months on WE ADVANCED SEARCH FEATURE UNDERUTILIZED The most powerful aspect of WE is its multilingual search engine. Do we have m...

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What WiserEarth users are saying

"There is simply no more appropriate project for us to undertake: making known the hundreds of thousands of organizations throughout the world addressing socialyou justice and the environment, an...

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Translations - SoW (Draft)

------ TECHNICAL TO DOs ------ 1. Display interface in different languages ⁃ Track down all instances where translatable text has not yet been ported over [DONE] ⁃ Put in globa...

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WiserVoices

This is really confusing i know..... it is cut and paste from the sample blog I created to showcase some ideas. Here is the link to the sample... (w...

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Featured Editors

Editor of the Month - November 2009 Peter Koll (PeterKoll)Portugal "Th...

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Top WiserEarth Contributors | November 2 ~ November 8, 20009

Username # of contributions marcellemar 1756 braker 1409

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What's New on WiserEarth

November 11, 2009 Over 60% of the people using WiserEarth are coming from outside the US. They are from 231 countries and speak 172 languages! But the ma...

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Should Solutions be renamed? Toolkits? Projects?

Problem: No one really understands what a Solution is and how it is different from ResourcesSolution: Rename Solutions to Toolkits to get across that these are practices that can be shared and some...

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Editor Badges

Step-by-step instructions for putting the badge on your page: 1) The easiest way is to grab the image from this page and drag it to your desktop to copy the size you want. Alternately, you can do...

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Cleaning Up 'Organization' User Accounts

This wikipage is part of WiserEarth Editors group. Wikipage maintainer: Bowo (bowo

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Group Tasks

Status COLD: Inactive COOL: Starting WARM: Rolling HOT: Thriving 1. Tick-up status by editing every time you complete a task. 2. Bowo will review/refresh at least once a month, and at mos...

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1st WiserEarth Editors Meet Up, October 26, 2009

AGENDA 2:30 pm Welcome remarks from Peggy and Bowo A brief history of WiserEarth and the Editors' Group 2:45 pm Introductions In attendance: P...

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Notes from the first session

We brainstormed using Post-It Notes and read the resulting responses aloud. This generated discussion for the second part of the meeting. Below please find the original questions and thoughts from ...

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Group Activities | Summary

2009 October 1st WiserEarth Editors Meet Up on Monday, October 26, 2009 in Sausalito, California, US. September T...

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Re-designing the creation process (aka make it easier to post information to WiserEarth!)

Background: During the editors meet-up, we opened up the floor for the editors to chime in with what they felt were the biggest inhibitors to using WiserEarth, in essence asking them one simple qu...

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WiserEarth Editors and Administrators

Below is a list of volunteer WiserEarth Editors and WiserEarth staff. We're collaborating to improve, grow and enrich WiserEarth so it can better serve the people and organizations who are working...

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WiserEarth new page designs - looking for community feedback!

WiserEarth wants your feedback Following the WiserEarth 2009 User Survey we conducted earlier ...

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Improving WE's content standards

Hello everyone, Per the consensus reached on this discussion, I've created this page for us to work on upgradin...

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WiserEarth Editorial Policy

| See also Terms of Use | | See also Community Guid...

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Homepage Queue - Weekly Featured People and Groups

This will be a page listing people and groups to feature weekly in WE's homepage. We'll feature 8 people and 3 groups each time. The people would mostly be active members of the featured groups or ...

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New WiserEarth Editors Promotion

This wikipage is part of the WiserEarth Editors group. Here you can apply or get nominated to be a volunteer WiserEarth Editor. Than...

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MyHome and Profile designs - community feedback welcome

WiserEarth wants your feedback MyHome and Profile pages For these pages, we've worked on improving the personal dashboard and personal profile pages. The dashboard has been renamed "MyHome"...

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List of Potential Group Admin Tips

This is a place for sharing potential blog posts ideas. In addition, starting in May we will start sending new Group Admins a series of automated 'tip' emails. Probably once a week - to keep them e...

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WiserEarth Group Admin Tip: Developing a Compelling Group Purpose

WiserEarth Group Tip - A series of helpful hints for managing you group more effectively. Developing a Compelling Group Purpose

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Newcomers to Greet

Here's a list of interesting new WE members that you might want to greet (via comment on profile or internal message). Feel free to add to this list (by editing) or suggest ideas on how this list c...

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Tutorial for New Editors

[toc] Listed below are some of the things to help you get started as a WiserEarth Editor. Once you're through with all things mentioned here, you can be considered as an 'expert' ...

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Rationalize Resource Type list

Problem: Resource catageory list is far too long - 25 different types - and has some strange options (e.g. Toxins) which are either not, or hardly, being used. Final Result: We are going to basica...

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Rationalize Resource Type list

Problem: Resource catageory list is far too long - 25 different types - and has some strange options (e.g. Toxins) which are either not, or hardly, being used. Final Result: We are going to basica...

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Rationalize Resource Type list

Problem: Resource catageory list is far too long - 25 different types - and has some strange options (e.g. Toxins) which are either not, or hardly, being used. Final Result: We are going to basica...

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Contacts/Network new designs - seeking community feedback

WiserEarth seeks your feedback (skip straight to downloading previews of the new designs) Contacts/network designs In our surveys, phone call follo...

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Account/Privacy settings design - seeking community feedback

WiserEarth seeks your feedback (Skip the explanation and jump straight to downloading the new design) One of the most often heard requests we've received has been...

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Inbox changes - feedback welcome

WiserEarth seeks your feedback Inbox changes For the inbox, the designs haven't changed too radically. But what we've put in is a much more polished messaging system. The first page just h...

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WiserEarth Success Stories

| See also what WiserEarth users are saying... | If you have a story to share, please contact

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Ways to improve Events section

This is a space to discuss potential improvements for our Events feature on WiserEarth. Two main challenges: 1) Ongoing events: Event ranges can last for months or years. The sorting feature ...

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"Getting Started" page template

This will be a template for the rewrite of the getting started pages. We will use wide-mode wikipages. ...

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WiserEarth's Community Guidelines

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Citation Guidelines

WiserEarth Citation/Attribution Citation is a reference to a book, article, web page, or other published item with sufficient details to identify it uniquely. Unpublished writings or speech, suc...

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New email designs - please send us your feedback

WiserEarth seeks your feedback As part of our redesign of the site, we're re-designing the look of our emails. In the past, we stuck with a very vanilla, very plain-text format to ensure the ...

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Out-Of-Scope Events to sort

These events always come up as the most recent by date occurring on our "explore events" page, and seem out of scope, or too long. Please post suggestions for how to reorganize or remove them! Sh...

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Tips for Setting up a Local Group on WiserEarth

| WiserEarth Global Communities group | Here are a few tips and thoughts about helping to set up a local WiserEarth Group. This came from my exp...

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WiserEarth 2009 User Survey Results

WiserEarth Community Survey Results - May/June 2009 Research carried out by: Camilla,

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Badge and Logo Designs

Hello everyone, We'd like to have a little fun here in providing our services to the larger WiserEarth community. If you have some ideas, graphic skills and spare time, help us design a badge for...

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Rewriting "Getting Started" Guide

Please post your thoughts in the comments (and later as edits here) on how we should rewrite the "Getting Started" guide (5 pages at the mom...

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Meet the Editors

Deborah Phelan (boatsie) is a v...

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Updating Most Visited Organization Listings

Editing instructions 1. Open organization listing by adding the MasterID listed in the table below to http://www.wiserearth.org/organization/view/ ... and copy pasting it to a new browser tab. e.g...

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WiserEarth 2007 User Survey Results

See WiserEarth site traffic > See WiserEa...

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WiserEarth Pages on the Web

This is a page listing all WiserEarth pages and groups out there. This helps us keep the info up to date. If you can join or edit one of these pages or groups, please do and report back in the comm...

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What is WISER?

WISER (World Index for Social and Environmental Responsibility) serves the people who are transforming the world. It is a collaboratively written, free content, networking platform that links NGOs,...

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Using WE Networks to Best Advantage

OK - so it's late and my head isn't as clear as I'd like - but I've got a voice urging me to 'Just Start'. So here's a start... I'm opening this wiki page because I want to exchange ideas with y...

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Allow page sort by # of visits

As suggested in this article, it would be cool to be able to sort pages, such as all wikipages and most the items in...

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WiserEarth Current Technical Releases

CURRENT TECHNICAL RELEASERelease 52.5 Watchlist fix PAST RELEASES |What's New on Wiserearth | Release 52 CSS upgrade - usi...

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WiserEarth Principles

Principles WiserEarth is based upon fundamental principles that are applied to everything WE (the WiserEarth community) do: TransparencyWiserEarth is open to full public scrutiny. Likewise, users w...

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Partially Implemented: Web statistics on all pages +6

Partially implemented: We have put # of page views on each record page, but have not yet gotten to #2 and #3 on the list below. -------------------------------------------------------------------...

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Election of Editors Representatives to the WiserEarth Advisory Council

About WiserEarth Advisory Council >> New Advisory Council Members Congratulations! Deborah P...

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WiserEarth 2008 User Survey Results - Page 1

See page 2 of 2008 survey results >

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WiserEarth 2008 User Survey Results - Page 2

See page 1 of user survey results >

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Share-This / Firefox Add-In for Content Creation on WE

Problem: Its hard to create WE content from electronic sources Solution: Try and get registered as an option on Share-This and/or create a Firefox add-on tool, that allow you to scrap a webpage f...

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References

About Us | Principles |

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Talking Points for WiserEarth

Talking Points for WiserEarth Q. What is WiserEarth? WiserEarth (WE) is a community directory and networking forum for the hundreds of thousands of organizations addressing the central issues of...

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WiserEarth Editors Group | Guestbook

Thank you for visiting our group! If you have any thoughts, ideas or feedback you'd like us to elaborate upon or if you just wa...

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Examples of effective WiserEarth Groups

Organizations and communities worldwide are using WiserEarth groups to coordinate their efforts. Below are some examples of successful groups. (More about WiserEarth groups:

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Initial Newsletter

Content of this page is moved to group's bulletin board. Will be copied back here once we're done for archiving. Here's the latest draft (April 16) should you be interested to give feedback:

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Interesting Discussions on WiserEarth

Please list interesting discussions you find in WiserEarth groups. We can use this list as material for Areas of Focus portals, indicator of where conversations is happening, and a "Featured Discu...

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12 Key Destination Groups Built Around Earth Charter

We will need your help in conceptualizing, creating, administering, growing and enriching these groups. They will become key meeting points (a.k.a. virtual watercoolers, village pumps, etc.) for th...

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8 Steps to Great Content for your Online Community

Wiser Tip: 8 Steps to Great Content for your Online Community Content is key to breaking the social ice in online communities. It's usually a big part of why people come, what they ...

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Comparison of Groupware Tools

This work has been moved to a Google Doc which you can reach here. Please contribute by editing this document. Thank you...

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Invitation to Connect Email to Organizations in WE Directory

100,000 Directory Email - Preparation for Sending Status of the e-mail: 105 revisions. Brief and ...

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To Do for 2009 Q1

This is an initial list of things to do for editors with each role. Please don't feel overwhelmed and see this as an overview of things that could help take WiserEarth to the next level. We will do...

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Using the Earth Charter as AOF Taxonomy +7

This is a follow-up of a suggestion I made in the "Developing a top level taxonomy for the 46 different Areas of Focu...

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Helping out with Org Email

Helping out with the 100,000 Org Email Inbox Hi everyone, Firstly thanks to all of you who have offered to help out with this. Below I have outlined the tasks that are needed. I have all...

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Bienvenue à WiserEarth

Cher(s) collègue(s), Votre organisation a un profil sur WiserEarth.org, un répertoire gratuit qui a pour but de recenser et connecter les ONGs et les associations qui travaillent dans le monde ...

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Sample Response Emails

Note: We will shortly be sending out the invitation email to all organizations in our database (February 10th for st...

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100,000 Directory Email - 2009

Invitation to Connect Email to Organizations in WE Directory - Drafts For Editors Inbox -

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Content to Add to WiserEarth

Hello everyone. This is a page to list your discoveries on the web that looks like a good fit for WiserEarth. They can be oganizations, events, jobs, etc. This wikipage serve as a repository of ...

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Wikipedia articles regarding WiserEarth - 250 languages a-waiting!

Wikipedia articles that mention WiserEarth: English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiserEarth - main English listing

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Training Course for Would Be, New and Existing Editors

Editors are the ones who should have a good understanding on the what, why and how of WiserEarth (WE), in other words, WE's vision, mission, history, platform, tools, content and community. To help...

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WiserEarth Community Roles

[toc] Introduction Since WiserEarth is a community-driven site, its success depends on the participation of its community of users. This page includes a description of the 4 different types of role...

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RSS Feeds for WiserEarth News Feed Module

Please help list good RSS feeds you know here. These feeds will be the foundation of our upcoming News Feed module

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Group Administrator Survey Results

For those interested in the results of the recent group administrator survey, here is a comprehensive explanation of the results, as well as the raw data below (with the exception of user answers, ...

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De-activated users

We'd like to put in place an open and transparent process for removing users from the site who have repeatedly violated

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Personal Profile Pages - Feedback

Suggestions, comments and feedback from the community on improvements (usability and content) to the personal profile pages:Please add date and source of suggestion + if multiple requests for a cha...

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WiserEarth-Related Groups

Currently we have the following groups with closely related activities. Any thoughts on cross-groups collaboration? or maybe even mergers?

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New Group Design - Preview

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Examples of violations to WiserEarth policies.

Below are examples of postings that deviates from WiserEarth Terms of Use, Con...

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Test IRC Chat Widget

Here is the WiserEarth chatroom. If you want to chat with people on the site now, click on the icon below and you will be prompted to enter a nickname. You can use your real name, username or ano...

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What you can do

Create a User Profile Join WiserEarth : tell the WiserEarth community about who you are, what you do, and what you are passionate about. For...

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Widgets for WiserEarth

WiserEarth will soon be able to support widgets by enabling them to be embedded in it's pages. Please list any widgets and tools that you think may be a good fit for WiserEarth on this page. If ...

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WiserEarth Editors Group Survey - Toward a Vibrant, Self-Sustaining Editors Community

Q1. Please write down your WiserEarth username (required) Answer Options Response Count 14 answered question 14 skipped question 0 Q2. When did you obtain Editor privil...

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WiserEarth FAQs for Students

Student FAQs - As a student I am so busy! Why should I take the time to join WiserEarth? Students in the 21st Century are bombarded by opportunities for Internet profiles. Facebook, my...

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WiserEarth FAQs for Faculty Members

WiserEarth Faculty FAQs - How can I use WiserEarth as an academic tool? As a member of WiserEarth, you can create a group specifically for your class. Students can also create profiles of...

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WiserEarth FAQs for Career Centers

Career Center FAQ’s -How do employers and job seekers use WiserEarth?WiserEarth offers a free forum for organiza...

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WiserEarth Editors Group Survey - On Being an Editor

This page summarizes the results of the first survey sent out to all 106 group members on Sept 23, 2008. To date (Oct 13, 2008), we have 26 group members participating in the survey. The survey w...

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WiserEarth Tagline Suggestions

Here's a list of suggestions for the next WiserEarth tagline to possibly replace the one in use: WiserEarth - Toward a Just and Sustainable World Created by Community. It is the result of <...

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WiserEarth Editors group >> Collaborate

Home |

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WiserEarth Editors group >> Assist

Home | Ask | Learn | Assist |

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WiserEarth Editors group >> Learn

Home |

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WiserEarth Editors group >> Overview

Home | Overview | Ask |

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Thoughts on WiserEarth's Vision?

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------This is not an official document of the Natural Capital Institute and does not necessarily reflect the views of Wise...

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Policy for Under age Users

This is what we can use to notify new users who don't meet our age requirements as stipulated in the Terms of Use: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

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5. WiserEarth Editorial Policy (v1 draft)

Instructions: This page is part of the draft documents page in the suggestion to include for-profits and public agenc...

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Group Vision and Activities Draft December 2007

Please join the (SETUP) Group Vision and Activities discussion on this initial draft of the d...

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Group Vision Draft - December 2007

See the Group Vision and Activities,

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Group Activities Draft - December 2007

See the Group Vision and Activities,

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Bulletin Board (BACKUP)

It seems that regular users/editors don't have any way to revert to previous revisions of the bulletin board despite the fact that it is a wikipage like any other. So, we'll create a backup here, j...

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Tools & Tips

Bookmark important pages (like this page) for easy referencing. Bookmark repetitive tasks for easy access (every link in the "Data Monitoring" section,

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Bulletin Board (design)

See the Bulletin Board Design DiscussionBULLETIN BOARD DESIGNThe bulletin board below is ...

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Useful Links

This section provides links for site development access, transparency loops and content management. It contains (still) functional wikipages from the

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Home Page - Feedback

HOME PAGE FEEDBACKSuggestions, comments and feedback from the community on improvements (usability and content) to the home page go on this page:Please add date and source of suggestion + if multip...

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Techniques in Mocking Up a Good-Looking Wikipage

This is a place to share tips and tricks in making a good looking wikipage.Here are the list of tips and tricks so far:How to make a text-box pop-out when hovering your mouse over an icon/link1. Ho...

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Improving Search - Feedback

Incorporate a Search Selector (like Amazon.com) into the home page rather than the current horizontal search optionsCreate a single 'advanced' search and place next to the search boxPut the search ...

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Survey for Improving Groups on WiserEarth

Tell me more about your group and its overall mission (aspirations) e.g. What sort of online participation will provide meaning to your group members? How do your group members want to make a diffe...

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Organizational Profiles - Feedback

Suggestions, comments and feedback from the community on improvements (usability and content) to the organizational profile page go on this page:Please add date and source of suggestion + if multip...

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Duplicates Feedback

12/5/07: An org was entered twice, when the original could have been edited. Perhaps the Spanish translation is off.Case 1:

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