Green Dinners
Eat, Talk, and Solve Together
Green Dinners allow people in our local community to come together, not only to enjoy each others company, but also to bring up relevant issues occuring in our neighborhood that we'd like to change. It's a great opportunity to meet people, strengthen friendships, eat nourishing food, and to get in touch with your community. Green Dinners first initiated with ...learn more
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Created: Oct 18, 2007
Updated: Nov 27, 2009
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This account was deactivated for spamming users. Sorry for the inconvenience if you received unwanted messages.
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Bowo,
Yes, it's technically feasible to do that. The chatterbox is setup to be attached to an entity record, and the individual messages are stored in the database as plain text comments on that record. So, we could setup a dummy wikipage and hard code a chatterbox onto it, then link to that from the home page or left navigation. |
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Hi All,
About a year ago, we had an IRC chat feature on the site, but we took it out because it didn't get used much at all. It ended up having the opposite effect than we were hoping for, because people would go to the chat room and find it empty 99% of the time. So, instead of finding a vibrant community of like-minded people, they found a big empty room. Granted, we have a lot more users now, but based on the traffic and usage patterns that we're seeing on the site, there aren't many people on the site at any given point in time.
Having said that, in the next week, or so, we're going to launch a "chatterbox' module for groups. Group admins will be able to place it on their group's homepage, and then any group member can use it as a live or asynchronous chat. The individual chat entries are retained in our database, so anyone can view the chat history at any time. It will be interesting to see if this is something that will get a lot of use by groups. |
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Bowo, I love this idea! I think that we should be spending a good portion of our technical resources on facilitating ideas like this because it strengthens WE's core differentiator, our data, and it engages the community. If there are functionality enhancements that you think would help in this effort, then you should write them up and send them to Honore so that we can prioritize them accordingly. Keep up the great ideas.
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I went to Bioneers last year, and I found the keynotes extremely informative and inspiring.
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Hi All,
Sorry to jump into this conversation so late, but I'm happy to see that there's been a healthy amount of brainstorming on the subject.
From a technical standpoint, I'm interested in defining the requirements for implementing this suggestion on the site. Bowo did a good job of describing the steps to implementation in an earlier post:
Does that accurately summarize the requirements? If so, then on a scale of 1 to 10, it's proabably a 5, as far as technical complexity.
I'm a bit wary of using multiple taxonomies to tag records because I think that it introduces a lot of complexity from a user experience standpoint. Unless we expect our community of editors to take on the task of curating the tags on all of the WiserEarth content, we need to make sure that the task of adding or editing records is very simple for the end user.
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It may be time to split this suggestion into two different suggestions:
1. Implement WordPress blogging into the site
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2. Modify the existing wikipage functionality to enable its use as a blogging tool
My vote applies to item 2. I think that enhancing wikipages would make it easier to make the blog integration more seamless. For example, we could allow AOF tagging of blogs or individual blog posts so that they could be included in the "Feed Tile" feature that we're working on, which suggests content to users based on the Areas of Focus that they have selected, as well as other criteria that can be configured. |
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Hi Carlos,
When you're editing your bulletin board, the third button from the left on the formatting panel on the top allows you to embed a video. Just click the button and paste in the URL of the youtube video, for example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEGnllIW0PY.
Hope that helps, Arash |
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I found out about this organization when I read the book "Room to Read" by the founder, John Wood.
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Hi bvatant,
The network visualizer is an open source Flash app that we were able to customize for our needs, rather than developing one from scratch. If you're aware of an open source SVG utility that does something similar, please let us know. We're always on the lookout for new technology that can benefit the site.
As for the UTF-8 issue, yes, all of the data is stored as UTF-8 in the database, but it seems that the Flash app isn't rendering it consistently. You can see that the dropdown list in the top right shows the characters correctly, but the box in the center of the diagram and the title bar do not. I've asked our Flash developer to take a look. Thanks for the heads up.
Arash |
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This user has been posting advertisements all over the site for handbags, so I've deactivated their account. If you feel that this is in error, please contact me.
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keeps me alive
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All of the entity creation pages, with the exception of Groups, have a 'Language' dropdown with a list of the most common languages. We don't currently use this to drive any functionality on the site, but the idea is to provide translations for all of the user interface elements on the site, like field labels, section headings, etc..., and then allow people to browse the site in their preferred language. Once we have translations, we'll put a 'Preferred Language' field on the user profile or get the user's language from their browser so that we can display things in their preferred language.
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Hi All,
We noticed the problem with editing group layouts and Internet Explorer 6 last week, and I was able to fix it in our development environment, so it should be fixed in our next release (hopefully in the next week). We try to make sure that everything works for Firefox on a Mac and PC, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, and Safari on the Mac. Of course, sometimes things slip through the cracks, as was the case with this bug, but thanks for reporting it. Thanks, Arash |
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We apologize for any messages received from this user. They are a spammer and were quite active on the system before we were able to disable their account.
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Hi Bowo,
I looked into this problem and it was caused by the latest revision of the record not being marked properly. There were only 4 records in the whole database that had this condition, so it tells me that we have some kind of bug that is not is not commonly encountered in people's regular use. I went ahead and fixed the 4 records, so the About section should no longer vanish when you hit the Edit link. Let me know if you hit this problem again. I'll keep an eye on it on my end.
Arash