Today I spent some time on Al Gore’s We Can Solve It website for fighting climate change. I was looking through the “actions,” which include:
write congress to support a global climate change treaty write congress to support more clean energy jobs tell your friends about our fucking video
Rant
One of government’s traditional roles is to smooth the […]
Over the past few months, we’ve slowly whittled away at the feature set as we get a clear sense of what’s truly essential. Now that we’ve cut it just about to the bone, I thought I’d lay out the complete list of snips.
CAMPAIGNS
News
News is getting merged into discussion as a special “Announcement” posts the […]
I was looking at this site today called Do Something. In their words:
You have a lot of ideas about how you’d like to change the world or at least you have a lot of questions and concerns and you’re looking for specific things you can do. We’re giving you a place to […]
Today a 50 person campaign tipped. Here’s how it went down:
Carie Rose was member 49 Carie Rosa, 3 minutes later, was member 50, tipping the campaign and emailing everyone
This girl set up 2 unique accounts that appear to be the same at first glance, and tipped the campaign mistakenly.
So now, we need a way to […]
Andrew
Yesterday
Worked on motions, edit ratification workflow. Decided that we won’t launch with multi organizer campaigns
Today
Review conference strategy with Joe More on the new site I’d like to see examples of link development posts that everyone is doing today. Email one over that you’ve written.
Andrew
Yesterday
Reviewed messaging Worked on campaign dashboard update Put together deck for board meeting Put together some ideas with Alex for the blog
Today
Contact Carrotmob folks Mockup campaign edit ratification
Aaron
Yesterday
Messaging ideas Net2 poll & email revised DC Dogs SA draft
Today
Scour my blogs - find 1-2 campaings & leave Craigslist ads for paid * organizers in the location Ongoing checkins w/ various SAs
need a way to deal with the questionnaire video? Let’s try dispersing all the organizer content and see how that looks — an organizer view make sure the active state of the tab aligns there needs to be a way get back to the overview page move the creator to the meta information experiment with side-by-side pitch & terms
I spend a lot of time updating the wiki and design prototypes with new stuff about what we’re all working on. I thought a nice way to keep a log of the updates I’m making would be an internal twitter feed. I’ve embedded it in this blog and the wiki, or you can […]
“Why is The Point better than a Facebook group?”
We hear it from time to time now, and I think we’ll hear it more once we roll out the new campaigns types.
Facebook, of course, has one main thing going for it: a huge user base. Something smart I once read: If you are going […]