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Community Feedback
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Feedback on new search results
“Over the past three months, the WiserEarth team has been make improvements to the site search based on your feedback, surveys, and user testing. If you have a suggestion or opinion on the change, ple” …more
angusparker commented 8 days ago
Showing that our community is changing all the time – Regularly updating the …
“One approach is to show activity or groups/people automatically in some sort of stream on the homepage – we can use some kind of criteria – amount of activity, members, friends etc. I fully agree tha” …more
angusparker commented 23 days ago
Bug: wrong mapping
“Hey Wael,
Thanks for posting. This is the right place. Please excuse the belated response. Guess most of us are enjoying the holiday season?
Anyway, I too notice weird stuff with the map. On use” …more
bowo commented 29 days ago
Can’t keep up with WE emails :-
“That does make sense Angus. And there are workarounds as mentioned before: leave group, group rule to not use group messaging, disconnect WE inbox and email inbox. Thank you James for bringing this u” …more
bowo commented about 1 month ago
Ability to link straight to the group from the Admin Email Saying you’re…
“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, the” …more
Camilla commented 2 months ago
Inviting someone to a group….and then another person
“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 member” …more
Camilla commented 2 months ago
Trouble adding Areas of Focus
“Hello Honore,
I get this from my profile page, http://www.wiserearth.org/user/Maynard/section/main
editing “Areas of Focus” attempting to add one.by directing it from left box to right, and pressin” …more
Maynard commented 2 months ago
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 3 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago
How are resources rated and ranked please?
“It could be fixed by the switch over. Let’s wait and see.”
angusparker commented 5 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 5 months ago
Community Suggestions
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Simplify AOF Categories +9
Problem: Areas of Focus (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 …more
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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
| edited by angusparker 4 months ago |
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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 4 months 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 4 months 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 5 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 9 months ago |
"Invite" link more prominent, more places +9
I believe that we must make invite others into WE seamless and easy, even elegant, enabling people to bring their networks into the fold. This should take the form of a link on my page and within my …more
| added by bowo about 1 year ago |
RSS Feed for Calendars
I received a request for information from Elizabeth Dougherty. I believe she wants to know if we can import calendars through RSS feed, or maybe to export calendars by RSS feed, or both. I think tha …more
Calendar of Events
Problem:
Currently within a group each event is listed in the date order that they occur. I would like to also create a calendar where I could view at a glance a monthly list of the events in a group, …more
| edited by elizd about 15 hours ago |
RSS Calendar Feed
Since you already have an RSS set up for news feeds, can you activate it for the calendar as well, which would be an even more useful component to be able to link to via RSS?
How long would it take …more
| edited by elizd about 15 hours ago |
Events – Recurring
Problem:
It would be nice to be able to list a recurring event, with a fixed frequency, eg 2 weekly, monthly etc without having to create a separate new event for each date. At the moment all the eve …more
| edited by socatellum 1 day ago |
Allow page sort by # of visits
As suggested in this article, it would be cool to be able to sort pages, such
as all wikipages and most the items in the Explore menu, based on page visits (like “Unique Visits” and “Total Visits”). …more
Using WE Networks to Best Advantage
OK – so it’s late and my head isn’t as clear as I’d like – but I’ve got a voice urging me to ‘Just Start’. So here’s a start…
I’m opening this wiki page because I want to exchange ideas with you …more
WE Wish list
This is a wish list concerning functions of group pages and other issues with WE. It started with a survey by the WE management team.
Have an easy way to build a table of contents, e.g in alphabeti …more
| added by bowo 16 days ago |
Auto add new group created to creator’s watchlist
Problem: Currently, a
new group is not added to the creator’s watchlist. Not all group
creator are aware of this. Result? hinders monitoring of group
activity.
Solution: Simply flick the switch on …more
| edited by angusparker 22 days ago |
