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I regularly maintain this wikipage to keep a running log of all our development work on the site, and what features/enhancements/bug fixes have come out of it:
What's New On WiserEarth
Update:
I regularly maintain this wikipage to keep a running log of all our development work on the site, and what features/enhancements/bug fixes have come out of it:
What's New On WiserEarth
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Normally, I don't try to cross politics with other arenas of my life, but in a funny and sad way, this speech was as well written and as well delivered as anything short of what I've seen from "The West Wing". I have no intentions of using my profile as a political platform of any sorts, but I feel this speech is probably the first honest attempt to acknowledge the difficulties of confronting race in the United States. What Obama does, that has been unforseen for a candidate on this big of a national stage, was not only explain the issue of race from the black perspective - but also acknowledge how it is felt on the side of white America. From his speech, his segment about the "anger" that is felt by both sides is what endears this speech to me - watch it and see if you agree:
Originally, I came onto NCI working for the WiserBusiness project, but since that's been put on hold for a little while, I've since transitioned to helping out on WiserEarth. My area of interest still remains in responsible business practices, and I'm planning on applying to MBA school for next year's admission cycle.
I work on the technical development team at NCI, have transitioned over from being an intern to being on the web development team, to being the Quality Assurance tester, and to my current position as Product Manager for our development team. Along with Adam Burkett and Peggy Duvette, we handle a lot of technical support and general questions, as well as acting like an idea center for the WiserEarth community to funnel their feedback and suggestions through. I won't droll on too much more about work, except to also mention we work a lot on site re-designing, so we are constantly evaluating our website features and tinkering with how we can make it better.
Scott Adams, creator of the cubicle-popular comic strip, Dilbert, asked his readers to describe their job in one sentence, preferably in a humorous and deprecating sorta way. Here's what were the top 50, with Scott's favorite at the bottom. My two favorites, however, are "Lifeguard" and of course - Quality Assurance Tester. Read on. :)
50 things they don't write in the job description:
1. Read things that don’t matter, then write papers saying they do matter, for points that don’t matter, in order to get a job doing something totally unrelated: Student
2. Take numbers on pieces of paper, rearrange them and put them on different pieces of paper: Tax Accountant
3. Explain big words to sales people and then cower before customers while trying to convince them that the sales people really didn’t say what the customers understood: Customer Solutions Engineer
4. Learn laws created ages ago so that I can tell engineers why I’m smarter than they are while complaining how it’s a travesty that they get paid more: Physics major
5. Show you innovative ways to burn money in the spirit of patriotism: Fireworks Stand Manager
6. Help people lie consistently to their bosses: Business Intelligence Consultant
7. Teach your kids enough to complain but not enough to make a difference: College Teacher
8. Stand on a field and get yelled at for hours: Baseball Umpire
9. Make people who are already filthy rich somewhat richer by duping poor people into buying stuff they don’t need: Corporate Software Engineer
10. Find as many synonyms for “explosion” as possible: Novelist for Teenage Boys
11. Supervise the guys and gals who try to protect the good people from the bad, only to be hated by the good people AND the bad: Police Sergeant
12. Watch the lunatics take over the asylum: Teacher
13. Manage waste recycling, promotion & sales: Antiques Dealer
14. Arrive after the battle and bayonet all the wounded: Auditor
15. Sell gas: Energy and Telecom Business Analyst
16. Tell forty year-old men it’s okay to behave like fourteen year-old school girls: Printing Press Production Coordinator
17. Make corporate propaganda feel like folksy truthisms: Tv Ad Director
18. Shepherd clients through the process of setting their products on fire: Consumer Products Tester
19. Manage urban renewal and pest control: B-52 Bomber pilot
20. Persuade kids that it’s really fun being wet, cold and scared out of their minds: Sailing Instructor
21. Draw up plans for something that will not be built according to those plans: Civil Engineer, Transportation Design
22. Teach kids to be evil…or so they say: Video Game Creator
23. Ensure that stupid people stay in the gene pool: Lifeguard
24. Do all the tasks nobody else wants to do: Admin Assistant
25. Wear a tuxedo and smash metal plates into each other: Musician
26. Go to strange people’s houses and take their money: Pizza Delivery Boy
27. Sell gluttony: Cinema Concession Stand Attendant
28. Tell people that they can’t spend money they thought they had: Government Analyst
29. Take pictures of the unlucky and the stupid: X-ray Technician
30. Profit from the misfortunes of others: Cops and Courts Reporter
31. Take a simple two-way promise and turn it into several complicated one-way promises which neither side can understand or hope to fulfill: Lawyer
32. Bring a little rain into the lives of flood victims: Government Debt Collector
33. Have people spend far more than they estimated: Building Inspector
34. Make sure nothing ever happens: IT Security
35. Move things from one tube to another: Microbiologist
36. Clean up an animal that makes more money then me in a year: Assistant Horse Trainer
37. Make people feel bad about their work: Quality Assurance Tester
38. Be a human napkin: Stay-at-home mom of three
39. Make food that is as healthy before it goes in your body as when it comes back out: Fast Food Employee
40. Repeatedly fix what you repeatedly break: IT Director
His top 10
1. Help people hate each other: Divorce Lawyer
2. Talk in other people’s sleep: College Professor
3. Try not to kill the baby: Housewife
4. Show people how beautiful the Earth would be without them: Mountain Landscape Photographer/Climber
5. Copy and paste the Internet: Student
6. Write words that no one wants to read: Technical Writer
7. Misinterpret the universe: Astronomer
8. Spend most of the day looking out the window: Pilot
9. Run away and call the police: Security Guard
10. Sell magic potions filled with psychotherapy: Bartender
In the meantime, just because humor tends to grease the wheels and break the ice and get us through that late afternoon lollylag, a few of my favorite media links:
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There’s a movement gaining momentum everyday and it’s global! It’s about mentoring, inspiring, and empowering one another to realize we can all make a positive difference; simply by passing on kind acts and good deeds.
We have joined hundreds of thousands of other organizations to focus on what we have in common, rather than our differences. This shift, “The Pass it On Movement” embraces all creeds, religions, and political beliefs. If it doesn’t appeal to 100% of the population then it is not part of the movement.
Every entity, non-profit, business, school, organization, and individual can be part of this shift. Together, we can all unite and collaborate as just one voice to “pass it on” and make the world a gentler, kinder place.
Please explore our website www.aunitedworld.org to learn more, and “Pass It On!” If you are a school or nonprofit organization and would like more information please send your inquiry to aunitedworld@gmail.com">aunitedworld@gmail.com.
All individuals, please contact rhonda@wetheworld.org">rhonda@wetheworld.org for more information.
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Dear Honore,There,s a lot wrong with us here in Europe but after watching the Obama clip it seems we still have alot to teach some of you Americans about living together.Meanwhile enjoy the beauty of your countryside and music etc until we can find the time to invade you and set you on the right way.What is nice about living in these times is that bigotry,racism is being fought back against round the world and its possible If it goes on like this it could easily become a thing of the past ,hopefuly within my lifetime
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Hi RitaS,
That description definitely got a few laughs and chuckles around the office, as we've had a few staff and interns who have worked in waste management and environmental cleanup efforts before. I'll check out your website's link - if there are some ideas that I can help contribute to the discussion, I would be glad to do so. |
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Honore,
Thank you for contacting me. I am working with the Lakota People, Maka Si Tomni, Bringing forth a thriving Lakota language & culture. Are you available to help out on our website www.makasitomni.org open source currently in Web Press and need an E-Commerce development around donation page? |
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Honore: here is one more to add: make poop smell like roses: Environmental Manager
I spend most of my time in the field of Life Cycle Assessment, actually measuring environmental performance. There is an effort underway to develop open source software to do this, and we will be having a special session at our conference on this topic this year-- you could have something important to add, I think. http://www.lcacenter.org for more information. |
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Honore, you're listed as one of the technical leads on the open-source software that underlies the WiserEarth website. This is some of the slickest, fastest software of the kind that I've seen -- we're currently evaluating Drupal as a platform. The FAQs say that the source and other files are going to go public for others to use -- that was well back in 2007. How have those plans progressed? My relevant sites include http://www.greenstar.org and http://www.waimeavalley.org
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Honore is a super sneaky ninja tester ;)
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Oh thanks! I stayed up an extra hour watching the vids and related vids and related vids of related vids... what fun! (yawn, zzzzz...)
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