Eco April Alignment
Uniting Community Honoring Life
The Eco April Alignment is a network of intergenerational and cross-cultural organizations, groups, and individuals. We are interconnected and focused on honoring all living things and uniting our community by aligning with extraordinary events in April 2008 in the Seattle area. The principles that guide our participation and partnership are as follows ...learn more
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Created: Dec 24, 2007
Updated: Nov 24, 2009
Membership: Open
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View Context | Flag comment for removal jonramer 5 months ago
Anna -- did you see my message about the recommendations for SEARCH? Your input would be greatly appreciated and welcomed.
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@ Angus. Thank you so much!
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@ Angus. I think a good starting point is the activity feed from the group. If you take a look at the Child Rights in Practice group, one of the channels I set up is a ning feed of the latest activity from the social network. You and the team have done such a good job of creating a multiple channel news feed, by the way. This is an example of group activity coming into a WE Group.I do think that a mirror of what gets recorded in the group activity feed would be a good place to start.
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Yes what we want to syndicate is the group activity. This way one group
can stay informed of activity in another. You can also subscribe to a
group from outside WiserEarth. What about doing this?
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@Angus I am not sure if you are for or against making this change. Here is a wikipedia article that touches on the issue. WHere do you stand personally? And how are decisions like this made? |
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I recommend hat we rename this AOF Indigenous Peoples. By adding the "s" to people you will satisfy a request of many Indigenous leaders I have met with,
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Thanks, Bowo. Angus, is this something you can approve? a number of Indigenous leaders have pointed this out to me.
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Thank you, Bowo. I really appreciate you suggesting this. We'll try it! Jon
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All creative ways to show this relationship are welcomed. For now I am thinking to make "sticky" the member organizations. I appreciate any input on this.
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Thanks for the supportive input. Other than inviting people through groups, is there another way to invite people to join?
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How about "Numeric Identifier"? or "Identifying Number"?
I think they're both flexible enough to accommodate any local custom. Thanks for asking and I'm glad we're adding this field. |
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Thanks to everyone for their good work here. I no longer see the connections to the other wiserearth elements, i.e. resources, events, etc. Are they not showing because they don't exist on the profile? Are we also planning to continue to allow visitors a way to visualize the network of connections? Thanks again for all the good input and design by Shawn!
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@Angus: I think you got it right. it sounds like your suggested module is dealing with using RSS to bring feeds TO WE. I am thinking about using RSS to provide feeds FROM WE to other sites. Watchlists are personal feeds from WE RSS Feeds could spread WE content to many location it is not today. The examples I gave are very practical. I would subscribe to the home page of WE if I could. I often find great new orgs and resources. Should I start a separate suggestion to address feeds FROM WE?
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Here is where I am stuck with RSS on wiserearth. I would like to subscribe to an area of focus and take that RSS feed and put it into an a RSS reader inside a group on a Ning network, it is one of the options they offer.
I know there are some pages in wiserearth you can use RSS and subscribe to - mostly discussion pages -- and this may be just used blindness on my part, but I cannot figure out how to subscribe to an area of focus, or to a group, or to the home page. I would be interested in knowing when there were changes on the WE home page and I see no way to subscribe. I would like to provide feeds (not just links) to content in other places so people could discover WE and access the content. Am I missing something? I am still learning about RSS. |
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@ Roger and Angus -- Yes I agree that a project would best be managed as a group on WE!
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@ Angus -- I actually think we agree.... I don't think there is an element in WE for project. I do think the closest to it is a resource since projects can be considered something that one or more organizations are making and working on together. But I would be in favor of a new entity for projects that one or more organizations can connect to. Make sense?
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Here's my 2cents.
I think of a multi-stakeholder alliance as a network of organizations, like the 14 that Bernard describes, and we do have an organization type for that - network/coalition/collective. So I would add Drynet as an organization with the type as network/coalition/collective.
When I think of a project I do assume that it will last for some period of time and have some particular outcome. In the multi-sakeholder world this is sometimes called an initiative. If we wanted to describe the outcomes or objectives of Drynet then I would be at a loss for what to call it in WiserEarth.
Is a project a type of Resource? |
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This sounds very interesting. I look forward to using it. Bravo!
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Are we considering treating the RSS Feeds as WE Resources? In other words, how does a user find the feeds?
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There are lots of good suggestions here on how to update the profiles. I have noticed that if I "adopt" the profiles related to the work we are involved in it improves everyone's experience of WiserEarth that we are dealing with. It is also been nice to show and offer to someone we are working with their profile as up to date as we could take it. It is also a benefit that so many organizations have been in WiserEarth for a long time. You can show the organization when the profile was created and when it was last updated.
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