2009

October

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

September

• Third issue of WiserEarth Community Newsletter

• Providing feedback round new page designs and email communications

• Started discussion around improving WiserEarth's Content Standards to encompass all record types (not just organization listings).

• Discussion around improving the events listing page and renaming solutions

• Launch of WiserFans campaign to expand fans of our Facebook page and invigorate the conversations on it.

August

• Started to actively manage WiserEarth page on Facebook: www.facebook.com/WiserEarth

• Started a more elaborated approach at welcoming new WiserEarth members

July

• Second issue of WiserEarth Community Newsletter

June

• Checking existence of 2090 grantee organizations of Global Fund for Women in WiserEarth directory and added 367 of them into the group.
• Started Editors of the Month section in the group page.

April

• Publishing first issue of WiserEarth Community Newsletter

• Brainstorming ways to improve the Areas of Focus taxonomy

• Election of editors representatives to the WiserEarth Advisory Council

March

• Initiating process to co-create the first edition of WiserEarth community newsletter

• Brainstorming editing interface for organization profile

 

February

• Discussion on keeping or removing general WiserEarth forum

• Listing and following up to user accounts used as organization profiles

• Co-created email to send to 110,000+ organizations in WiserEarth directory

• Responding to emails from organization representatives, updating organization directory

• Initiated process to create 12 key destination groups based on Earth Charter principles

• Brainstorming mockups of organization profile redesign

• Concluding WiserEarth survey results in 2008

• Brainstorming and implementing revisions to WiserEarth homepage

January

• Group membership consolidation

• Finished formation of initial editors team under 12 roles

• Drafting plan for 2009 Q1

• Co-created WiserEarth article in Wikipedia (English and French)

• Listing WiserEarth presence on the world wide web

• Drafting training course for WiserEarth members and editors

• Brainstorming ways to update WiserEarth organization directory and grow membership

• Discussion on adding semantics to users relationship

• Listing popular RSS feeds for upcoming News module for groups

 

2008

December

• Co-defined 11 editor roles

• Comparing WiserEarth groupware with other services

• Testing out a WiserEarth IRC chat room

• Concluding results of survey for WiserEarth groups' admins

• New editors promotion

November

• 2nd survey for editors group members: Toward a vibrant, self-sustaining editors community

• Co-defined criteria and community process to promote new editors

October

• Brainstorming new tagline for WiserEarth

• 1st survey for editors group members: On being an editor

For activities up to October 2008 see archived discussions, wikipages listing, and activity log.