Global Assembly Dialog
When groups talk people listen
The prototype Global Assembly Dialog is an experiment in participatory democracy on the web aimed at massively involving "We the People of the Earth" and leading to the formation of a nonviolent bottom-up Global Assembly with real power to build a world that works for everyone.The Dialog uses a web rating technology to vote on messages written by the partici ...learn more
GROUP DETAILS
Created: Oct 18, 2007
Updated: Nov 11, 2009
Membership: Open
Semi-Private
Group Activities | Summary
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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)
- Discussion on adding semantics to users relationship
- Listing popular RSS feeds for upcoming News module for groups
2008
December
- Comparing WiserEarth groupware with other services
- Testing out a WiserEarth IRC chat room
- Concluding results of survey for WiserEarth groups' admins
November
- Co-defined criteria and community process to promote new editors
October
- Brainstorming new tagline for WiserEarth
