WiserEarth Area of Focus Stewards
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The 379 Areas of Focus on WiserEarth have been created to provide a comprehensive categorization or taxonomy of all the different areas of activity relating to the environmental and social justice fields. All entities entered into the WiserEarth database (organizations, groups, people, resources, solutions, events, jobs) can be tagged with multiple areas of ...learn more
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Created: Feb 22, 2008
Updated: Oct 19, 2009
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Updated: 10 months ago
With the reorganization of the Editors Group into subgroups, it would be helpful to be able to CC: group members on an email, or have more than one person on the To: line.
This probably would also...
Updated: 3 months ago
The Event database is pretty empty so far - e.g. currently it has nothing in Taiwan :-(. WiserEarth's organization database started by importing another database or databases - I wonder what the eq...
Updated: about 1 month ago
Problem: The type drop down list for events is too long and at times duplicative.
Solution: Reduce the number of types significantly to the ones that are really being used.
I did an analysis of the...
Updated: 6 months ago
In discussions (example), the sort options of "Ascending" and "Descending" for comments I don't think are very cl...
Updated: 6 months ago
Problem: Confusion or abuse occurs on "People" profile pages, where some users create pages that are actually organizations or other entities. Sometimes it amounts to 'double-dipping', with entit...
Updated: 20 days ago
WiserEarth wants your feedback
Following the WiserEarth 2009 User Survey we conducted earlier ...
Updated: 6 months ago
Problem/Issue:
I am a fan of being able to visualize a network. Being able to click through and see the linkages is very powerful. The problem I find is that as networks grow the number of items ...
Updated: 6 months ago
I think it would be useful to be able to embed a google calender for our group as we are trying to promote WiserEarth as a community resource in the Puget Sound area.
The idea is to post a calend...
Updated: 3 months ago
Before adding a new resource, there is a step which requires the users to search for an existing resource already added to site. It appears like the following with a search box above it:
Befo...
Updated: 6 months ago
Problem
Not very many people are using the WE rating system.
Suggestion
Decouple ratings from comments: to encourage more feedback on WE.
Discussion
I am sure that requiring a comment in ...
Updated: 6 months ago
Would be nice to add Thumbnails and Categories to the File Library to make it easier to search. See mock-up below.
Also ability to add a text, title for each photo
Updated: 6 months ago
Implemented:
Per Bowo's suggestion below, using anchors allows an admin to look directly to content in the group modules.
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I would like to ...
Updated: 8 months ago
Problem:
Many groups have listservs on yahoo and google groups. To get folks to have those discussions on WE instead, we need to be able to link ones email with the discussion forum. At present th...
Updated: 6 months ago
Update:
If not for our recent server upgrade issues, we would likely have implemented this suggestion into the site. However, we are currently tied up working on some maintenance issues and site o...
Updated: 5 months ago
Problem
It's a bit disorienting and disappointing to have the basic WE navigation and search functionality missing from certain WE pages/circumstances. My original concern came about from the mis...
Updated: 6 months ago
Problem:
There's no legend on our network visualization. Hinders proper understanding of the network connections.
Solution:
Add it in the visualization, or add a link to a page with the legend.
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Updated: 6 months ago
Problem
It is difficult for a user to readily find related materials on WE that she/he would be interested in.
Solution
More than [a] simple "ratings" however, is my favourite feature called"Cus...
Updated: 6 months ago
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I would like to have the ability to add photo titles/captions? Any input on this? Thanks!by Meghan ...
Updated: 11 months ago
I believe that a sort of RSS widget on some profile pages would be an elegantly automated way to keep the record cards full of informative and updated content about the resource that they are recor...
Updated: 6 months ago
Problem:
When I visit a group I find it helpful to view the "Activity Log" to see what has been happening since I last dropped by. It is very helpful that each entry state Who. When, and What Chang...
Updated: 5 months ago
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...
Updated: 5 months ago
What about to feed WE activity + aggregator into twitterfeed? Any one knows how to do thats?
This way each one of us can follow all WE activities on twitter, even own activites can be pushed there.
Updated: 6 months ago
Problem: WiserEarth homepage takes 70 seconds to download at 56K, and 254 seconds at 14.4k. This is simply too long for people on low bandwidth connections.
Solution: Optimize WE for low bandwidt...
Updated: 4 months ago
Problem: From time to time something comes along that would really benefit eveyone involved with WiserEarth. Here is a great example www.openwiser.org This...
Updated: 9 months ago
Problem: Although you can embed specific pictures from Flickr using the TinyMCE toolbox, you can't access dynamically your personal or organizational Flickr photos in a slideshow.
Solution: Creat...
Updated: 6 months ago
Problem: I don't know if this is the right term ... however, it would be ideal if it was possible to reply directly to an individual's posting and thus create a thread of conversation on different ...
Updated: 6 months ago
Problem: I'm probably not the only one who has slipped or will slip a mouse click on a "Flag comment for removal" link.
Solution: Have the ability to undo, at least within 5 minutes or so, a "Flag ...
Updated: 6 months ago
Each comment should have their own title.When somebody responds to the title, the default should be "Re: (title)"This will make it easy for one to more easily jump into the middle of discussions, ...
Updated: 4 months ago
Problem: Internships are a sizable part of job listings - 12% currently but don't have a category under type. Community members have been asking for that category.
Solution: Add 'Intern' type to Jo...
Updated: 5 months ago
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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Updated: 6 months ago
Problem -- We are missing an opportunity to offer content/value from WiserEarth to other groups within WiserEarth as well as outside of wiserearth. I don't think there is a way to "subscribe" to a...
Updated: 6 months ago
After beginning some experiments on how best to steward areas of focus portals (pages that aggregate information on respective area of focus), we concluded that it's best to use the group feature t...
Updated: 6 months ago
Problem:
Just encountered the need for this as one of the group member misedit the "About" tab's "About" section.
Solution:
If we have the "Show History" link and can revert to previous revision...
Updated: 6 months ago
Problem/Opportunity:
This suggestion addresses ones interest in strengthening their participation in a group. Recent enhancements
to the WiserEarth watchlist alert email was a big step forward i...
Updated: 6 months ago
Problem: Participating in a page (editing, commenting, discussing) that is beyond a group someone is a member of requires manual addition to watchlist to keep updated. This can result in loss of op...
Updated: 11 months ago
Problem: As people add content to Group modules they gets very full and it can be hard to find stuff.
Solution: iPhone style Powerscroll on the right hand side of all relevant Group Modules. A-...
Updated: 2 months ago
I've been stumbling over a few organizations and groups like
http://www.wiserearth.org/resource/view/26465156a8493...
Updated: 6 months ago
Problem: While browsing search results for orgs/resources/events etc., many times I prefer to go directly to the website, versus the org/resource page. The org/resource page does not always provi...
Updated: 6 months ago
Problem: Although you can embed videos from You-Tube, Google Videos, CurrentTV using the TinyMCE toolbox, you can't access dynamically your personal or organizational video channels dynamically fro...
Updated: 9 months ago
Problem: Two column layouts (50/50, or 66/33) versions are not efficient for using page space
Solution: Create a new three column layout (33/33/33) using the existing 1/3 width modules
How I ca...
Updated: 8 months ago
Problem:
Too many WiserEarth messages arrive in my email inbox. There's no way to set "WE messages --> email inbox" forwarding to daily or weekly. There's only "as it happens" or "none at all"
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Updated: 8 months ago
Problem: I am in Thailand working with organizations and groups that we want to add to WiserEarth. I must be missing something but I cannot find a way to invite people into WiserEarth from the ho...
Updated: about 1 year ago
Problem: Organizations are gaining a foothold as "people" on wiserearthSolution: make it CLEAR that User Profile = Specific Person. Remove Organizations that are people who do not identify themsel...
Updated: 6 months ago
Sometimes a user need to refer to a specific comment he/she/other user made in the past. The comment can be in a page's comment section, or in a discussion thread.
At the moment, the only way to ...
Updated: 6 months ago
Updated: about 1 month ago
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...
Updated: 8 months ago
Problem: No current support for powerpoint sharing other than as an attached file. Which requires client side software and cannot be embedded in wikipages.
Solution: Support embedding of
Updated: 6 months ago
Problem
When I began becoming acquainted with the WE site, I quickly got confused on the WE distinction between an organization and a group. I did not see the WE pros and cons between these two, ...
Updated: 5 months ago
As suggested in this article, it would be cool to be able to sort pages, such
as all wikipages and most the items in...
Updated: 6 months ago