Comments on: Calling All Livable Streets Activists and Organizers http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/02/04/calling-all-livable-streets-activists-and-organizers/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: James Glave http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/02/04/calling-all-livable-streets-activists-and-organizers/comment-page-1/#comment-62605 James Glave Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:29:11 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=5401#comment-62605 Here's a piece I wrote in the fall sketching out a collaborative and dynamic uber-tool for organizing and also resource sharing along the lines of what you're talking about... http://glave.com/2008/11/21/lets-mash-up-the-hood/ Here’s a piece I wrote in the fall sketching out a collaborative and dynamic uber-tool for organizing and also resource sharing along the lines of what you’re talking about…

http://glave.com/2008/11/21/lets-mash-up-the-hood/

]]> By: Christa http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/02/04/calling-all-livable-streets-activists-and-organizers/comment-page-1/#comment-62596 Christa Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:20:21 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=5401#comment-62596 This is great! Thank you. This is great! Thank you.

]]> By: Peter http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/02/04/calling-all-livable-streets-activists-and-organizers/comment-page-1/#comment-62579 Peter Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:06:38 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=5401#comment-62579 * Lightweight Project Management - a la <a href="http://www.basecamphq.com/" rel="nofollow">Basecamp</a>. ...combined with... * Lightweight Contact Management/CRM - a la <a href="http://www.highrisehq.com/" rel="nofollow">Highrise</a>. Other potential nice-to-haves: Tools to facilitate face-to-face meetings - a la <a href="http://www.meetup.com/" rel="nofollow">Meetup</a>. Ability to publish to public-facing website - a la <a href="http://sites.google.com/?pli=1" rel="nofollow">Google Sites</a> (wiki functionality). Ideally with way to support own unique domain name. Internal wiki-style pages to keep notes about some particular topic as I research it. I should be able to embed text, links, images, maps, etc. Voting/polling widget. Fund-raising widget. Ability to embed google widgets, especially Google Maps, videos, streetfilms, etc. Calendar integration. Permissions structure to allow for a number of people to babysit particular aspects of the effort - email lists, public-facing website typos, etc. * Lightweight Project Management – a la Basecamp.

…combined with…

* Lightweight Contact Management/CRM – a la Highrise.

Other potential nice-to-haves:

Tools to facilitate face-to-face meetings – a la Meetup.

Ability to publish to public-facing website – a la Google Sites (wiki functionality). Ideally with way to support own unique domain name.

Internal wiki-style pages to keep notes about some particular topic as I research it. I should be able to embed text, links, images, maps, etc.

Voting/polling widget.

Fund-raising widget.

Ability to embed google widgets, especially Google Maps, videos, streetfilms, etc.

Calendar integration.

Permissions structure to allow for a number of people to babysit particular aspects of the effort – email lists, public-facing website typos, etc.

]]> By: Amanda http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/02/04/calling-all-livable-streets-activists-and-organizers/comment-page-1/#comment-62558 Amanda Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:34:11 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=5401#comment-62558 My community garden has been using Open Plans to aggregate some of our documents and a compost project I work on uses Open Plans to share documents and manage lists. Among the things we could really use: * The ability to add people directly to a discussion list. I know there are good reasons not to allow this, but every time someone wants to get involved I have to invite them to the list and the invitation gets them as far as creating a login on Open Plans and people have a hard time getting all the way onto our lists. * The ability to hide some documents from public view. There are a lot of files we'd like to make generally available to the public and a few, like our contact sheets with everyone's name and number that we'd like to limit access to. These aren't top secret documents, just files we don't want to have indexed on search engines. My community garden has been using Open Plans to aggregate some of our documents and a compost project I work on uses Open Plans to share documents and manage lists. Among the things we could really use:

* The ability to add people directly to a discussion list. I know there are good reasons not to allow this, but every time someone wants to get involved I have to invite them to the list and the invitation gets them as far as creating a login on Open Plans and people have a hard time getting all the way onto our lists.

* The ability to hide some documents from public view. There are a lot of files we’d like to make generally available to the public and a few, like our contact sheets with everyone’s name and number that we’d like to limit access to. These aren’t top secret documents, just files we don’t want to have indexed on search engines.

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