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Beta-testing community.ciaris.org

Thank you for your feedback.

Please give us your feedback in [email protected]

... Or to [email protected]

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Choice of technologyThe new CIARIS site has as its foundation the content developed in the old

CIARIS site. At the same time it incorporates the social networking philosophy of current technology developments.

Our online space aims to use the potential of new technologies to bring together people from different parts of the world who share in the endeavour to combat social exclusion, as well as helping them to stay in touch with the themes and information about social exclusion, and in different languages.

Originally we were going to adapt an existing technology to create the new CIARIS site. However, as we did not find one that addressed our specific multilingual needs, that combined both new social software principles with the need to promote content, and that had an easy-to-use, instinctive user interface, we have created the system from scratch. For people interested in web development we are using Ruby on Rails: http://www.rubyonrails.org/

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The aim of this point show is to help you getand overview of the CIARIS community site before

you explore it. However, there is no substitutefor “clicking about” and experimenting. Please

experiment and give us your feedback.

This is the betaversion, which means that it is under

development and changes arehappening everyday on the site.

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This is main CIARIS

page i.e. http://ciaris.org

We continued with the ideaof the old CIARIS site to have

different colours fordifferent parts of the site.

So every page in the librarywill be the brown theme. In

community the theme is green.

This entire beta site is in English.When this site is finalised,

it will be mirrored in Portuguese. On every page

you will be able to select/switch to

the language you want.

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This is the navigation of the current beta site. The site is

divided in two. One is Community and the other is

Library.

The Library is still underconstruction.

Community consists ofthree elements:

workspaces, people, personal blogs.

These aredirectories of the three

elements of community.

There will be “n” numbers of workspaces. Each workspace will

have a group blog, a place for uploading workspace files, and

links/fotos of the people participating In the workspace.

There will also be abutton for uploading documents created inthe workspace to the

Library.

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You are not testing the library of the CIARIS site (yet).

However, for your information, in the library there will be three Sections in the library:1. CIARIS produced resources: Guide for action, Concepts and Strategies, Social Assistance, L.E.D.2. Resources that are produced/authorised by the ILO.3. Resources shared or produced by CIARIS members (possibly from their workspace).

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This is a widgit that stayswith you across the site. It helps you navigate through your personal spaces, the entire site and the particular page you are on.

This is the Community Dashboard, with an overview of Workspaces,People and Blogs. You can see the last people who were on the site; the latest blog posts and the latest updatedworkspaces.

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All the workspaces in CIARIS, with a one description of

each one. You will be able to listthem alphabetically or in

date order.

In the right column willbe the latest workspaceand a seductive button

which says:“Create a workspace”.

Navigation through yourown and all workspaces.

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You will be able to order thesenames alphabetically,or according to

country

Click on a tag and it takes you to someone

whose profile is tagged with this label.

In the right column will be “latest members”And a button “Become a member”.

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From someone’s Personal Profile I can chooseto add them to “My Friends” by clicking here. At

any time I can easily take someone off “My Friends”.

My Friends list is like a private directory of the peopleI know in the CIARIS network.

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All the blogs, which you will be able to order alphabeticallyor in order of date created.

There will also be a tag cloud widgit.

Click on a tag andit will take you to the

blogs that havethis tag.

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This is how your blog appears. It has a simple interface and it is easy to write a new post from

this page.Click here to

write a new post

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When you comment on someone’s blog, your photo appears next to the comment.

I tagged Magda’s comment with “life”.I will always be able to find this post - and

others that I have tagged with “life” -when I click on “life” in my tag cloud.

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Composing a blog post- WYSIWYG

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In the people directory you can seethe people in the CIARIS network.• Click on their name to read their profile. • Click on the country to findother CIARIS members from that country.Click on a tag and you will

find all the people who used this keyword to describe their experience or

expertise, It helps you to locate someone with the expertise you are looking for.

Search for people by country.

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This is your Personal Dashboard that you got to from your widgit. It is a summary of all your participation

across the site. Only you can Access your dashboard.

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This is how your profilelooks to someone else, depending on how muchof their information they

have made public.

At the minimum you have to show yourname and country.

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This is where you arrive when you click on “Edit

Profile”. You willbe able to choose

which of this informationappears on your public

profile.

The keywords you put herein your profile will appear in a “tag cloud” on the People Directory. This will make iteasier for people to locate

People with specific interests and expertise in the CIARIS

network.

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Phase 1 beta-site questions• How fast or slow do you find the page

download?• Do you like the colours? Do they invite you to

stay or make you want to leave? Perhaps you feel neutral about them?

• Is the functionality of the site intuitive? Or is it difficult? What suggestions do you have?

• What type of learning conversations or training could help you to use the site better?