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Community Feedback
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the add connection button doesn't appear
"well i had the problem previously but after changing the browser it was sorted out.thanks"
bathrobes commented 12 days ago
Is there a 'signing out' elf?
"Cool - I hope that does solve so me issues! Would hate to do all that work and not get much out of it, but do let me know if it worked or not. Sometimes that's all you can do when trouble-shooting " ...more
Honore commented about 1 month ago
Sharelinks
"Can we just include a "ShareThis" link (minus icon) at the end of the short description (with/without the "...learn more" link) on the group banner? I think the idea is to enable easy-sharing with pe" ...more
bowo commented about 1 month ago
Share your thoughts about the new search results
"In the old search results we ranked all results by relevance (to the keywords you entered for the search). Ratings etc were only every used to sort browse views (not search results). So nothing has c" ...more
angusparker commented about 1 month ago
Researcher looking for organizations in peru that deal with bilingual educati...
"You might want to check out this search and this search. Also give a call to the Pachamama Alliance - the are in Ecuador but would probably know people."" ...more
angusparker commented about 1 month ago
Personal Dashboard - Thoughts, comments, and feedback welcome!
"Hi EcoWarrior100 -
I've updated your profile manually to have your email address confirmed. Not sure why you haven't been getting the confirmation email, but it's something we'll look into. Let " ...more
Honore commented about 1 month ago
How are resources rated and ranked please?
"It could be fixed by the switch over. Let's wait and see."
angusparker commented 2 months ago
can't find my group in "insert link WE content"
"I thought there might be a delay but wanted to inform you just in case. I've used the 'insert external Link', thanks"
KamilPach... commented 3 months ago
filtering and sorting incoming information
"@Kamil: Thanks for the idea. We're likely going to be splitting your existing email watchlist alert into separate digests for every group that you are a part of plus one of your contact/network's act" ...more
angusparker commented 3 months ago
Core Code Showing Up in Bulletin Boards
"Just tested with Safari 4 on Windows. Seems that there's some trouble with it. Safari 3 is doing ok though... and also Firefox 3.5."
bowo commented 3 months ago
Chatterbox - the scroll on the right goes back down automatically
"Hi Jean-Paul,
You're right! I didn't realized that it's visible only to group admins...
So there's no other way than to fix this then.
Thanks!
Bowo"" ...more
bowo commented 3 months ago
Job postings -- Reviews and Validity of Organzations posting jobs
"Dear Monica,
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. As a site with user-generated content, it is at times impossible to scrutinize every new postings, so we thank you for doing the research an" ...more
bowo commented 4 months ago
Can't connect myself to my resource
"I tried it the other way around just then, going to my profile and asking to connect to the resource. It gave the same error message. Curious.
Any ideas very welcome."
blindspotter commented 4 months ago
Edit new comment and lose previous rating
"Interesting bug - I'm pretty sure in the past, ratings were retained after a comment was edited. Must be something clearing out the rating upon an edit. I'll put it on the bug list. " ...more
Honore commented 6 months ago
Suggestion searching is not showing all matches
"Very good. Suggestion made."
sicjedi commented 6 months ago
Community Suggestions
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Simplify AOF Categories +9
Problem: AOFs are too complicated (379 categories rolled into 46 top levels) for users, hinder globalization (too much to translate), and are not very scientific (i.e. not exhaustive and mutually excl ...more
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" pa ...more
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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 follow-ups and in-person user testing, one common issue ...more
| edited by WiserTimonie about 1 month ago |
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 around privacy. Community membe ...more
| edited by WiserTimonie about 1 month ago |
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 gre ...more
| edited by WiserTimonie 2 months ago |
List of Implemented Community Suggestions
This page is part of the WiserEarth Suggestions group. Below is a list of suggestions from WiserEarth community in the group that received enough support and implemented as standard features.
This i ...more
| edited by sicjedi 6 months ago |
Add comment-searching option
Problem: WE does not provide a way to search the text of comments.
Solution: Provide a way, perhaps as a search checkbox: "Search comments too."
This suggestion originated from this discussion.
...more
| edited by angusparker 4 days ago |
Re-designing the creation process (aka make it easier to ...
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 quest ...more
| edited by Honore 12 days ago |
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 somewha ...more
| edited by blindspotter 12 days ago |
WiserEarth new page designs - looking for community feedb...
WiserEarth wants your feedback
Following the WiserEarth 2009 User Survey we conducted earlier this year, we've been hard at work analyzing
your suggestions and ideas in order to integrate them ...more
What's New on WiserEarth | 2008
More updates: 2007 | 2009
December 16th, 2008
You may have noticed some new changes on WiserEarth Groups!
We have recently added new features to the WiserEarth group, meaning administrators can n ...more
| edited by angusparker about 1 month ago |
Reduce Fields for Resources
Problem: Resource records require too many and unnecessary meta data / descriptive fields.
Solution: Based on research of users / non-profit professionals we have been able to determine what fields ...more
| edited by angusparker about 1 month ago |
Reduce Fields for Events
Problem: Event records require too many and unnecessary meta data / descriptive fields.
Solution: Based on research of users / non-profit
professionals we have been able to determine what fields are ...more
| edited by angusparker about 1 month ago |
Reduce Fields for Jobs
Problem: Job records require too many and unnecessary meta data / descriptive fields.
Solution: Based on research of users / non-profit
professionals we have been able to determine what fields are c ...more
| edited by angusparker about 1 month ago |
Rationalize Event Type List
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 cu ...more

