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GROUP DETAILS
Created: Jun 30, 2008
Updated: Nov 13, 2009
Membership: Open
Semi-Private
Comments (1 - 20 of 580)
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Hi Anyanwu - welcome to the WiserWestAfrica group!
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Hi Danny - welcome to the group. Let us know how you might want to get involved.
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Thanks so much for translating this page Tony.
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Here's my experience (as of today) - I carried out a search for anyone living in Liberia on WiserEarth and found a few people including someone called Thomas who I invited to join the WiserWestAfrica group. I didn't know at the time, but Thomas happens to live in the same town (Monrovia) as Momoh, the organizer of the group. Thomas was so excited when he got the invitation to join the group that he sent several messages to me, and immediately started posting on the group, he has contacted Momoh and is hoping to attend the events organised by Momoh locally
- moreover these gatherings in Liberia are being set up by Momoh as part of our WiserTuesday initiative which resulted in him contacting me after hearing that WiserEarth was hoping to support the setting up of local face-to-face gatherings. |
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Let me know Zachery how you might like to get involved. For example as a translator or helping us to spread the word once WiserEarth is in Chinese.
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Hi Zachary - welcome to the WiserEarth in Chinese group.
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Thanks Bowo for summarizing this discussion. I like your pragmatic way of addressing this question and fully agree on the approach you suggest.
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Momoh - I'm online now (14.41pm GMT Thurs 19th), don't hesitate to chat if you see me here on the group.
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Thomas - welcome to the group! Great to see you here
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I like it when there are new groups and people that appear on the WiserEarth home page as it shows that the community is changing all the time. Is there any way to make these updates more frequent?
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As an administrator of several groups, it's great to get an email saying when a new member joins the group. But I always want to welcome members to the group whenever I get this message. To date, there is no direct way to access the group or the message box to send a message to welcome the new member. I have to go and find the group from my groups tab.
Here's how Meetup does it:
WiserTuesdays@LaRuche has a new member !
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Thank you for taking the initiative to set up the WiserWestAfrica group and support regional meetings in Liberia and beyond.
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I am trying to invite a number of people to join the WiserWestAfrica group from within the group itself.
Once I have done a search for the people who are on WiserEarth from the link (Invite members) and then I invite one person from the research results list, I can't invite a 2nd person without being taken back to the group home page and going through the search process all over again. It would be great to be able to have the ability to 'Go back to search results & invite another person'.
Equally if I look at someone's profile and don't invite them, I also have to go back to the home page and start over.
Also when you do the search for others - it shows the top 20 results, but there isn't a way to see other search results after that of other people you may want to invite.
Also, there is no way to copy and paste (or save!) the invitation I'd like to send to all the new members on the invitation box without it showing HTML errors - so can we have a copy/paste icon put in the invitation box please. |
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Frank, Abu, Bill, Fatu and John - welcome to the WiserWestAfrica group! Great to see you here.
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Hurrah! Now we're connected. Thanks for all your help in getting WiserEarth into Spanish. Good luck with the studies.
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Bonne idee Jean-Paul. Je vais en creer.
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Thanks for this Jean-Paul - could you give us a screengrab so we can see exactly what you mean here. I think I understand, but want to be sure. Thanks so much.
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Yes please!
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Thanks for posting this Jean-Paul. I totally agree on this one - it's frustrating as a user when you don't know when the post was made. Also I don't know that a post has been made as an administrator of a group as I don't get an alert for it. It would be good to know how difficult this would be to add into the alerts too.
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I made this posting on the WE blog about you, but wanted to add it here on your profile too.
It really enjoyed reading about the fantastic work you are doing on sustainable water solutions today. Thank you for all the postings (especially the events) you've added to WiserEarth. Thank you for being such an amazing member of our community.