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i am a digital librarian. WE is one of my *bestest* digital communities ;)
WISERearth serves the people who are transforming the world. It is a community directory and networking forum that maps and connects non-governmental organizations (NGOs), businesses, governments, and individuals addressing the central issues of our day: climate change, poverty, the environment, peace, water, hunger, social justice, conservation, human rights and more. Content is created and edited by people like you...
Here I have found people from all over the world whose interests intersect, and whose drive motivates me to learn more and do more. I have followed and dabbled in a variety of social networks, but WE is different. WE is a community AND a repository of information on a vast array of social issues. I encourage anyone interested in knowledge management, information management, and/ or social justice and networking to step in and join WE.
For a digital librarian, to come into a project that is wrestling with taxonomies, user interfaces, community networking, semantic connectivity, and the inherent issues of database maintenance and wiki editorializing is sheer bliss. Everyone else will probably realize that the research capacity and the organizational capacity of the system is extensive and overwhelming.
My homepage on WE, in case you are interested in visiting!
turtle 13 is a community of friends that have decided to use the web, and my atrocityarts services, for their own nefarious purposes.
 I am currently helping out with content management systems, learning management systems, basic web pages, database development, research, corporate intelligence, archiving, and galleries.
turtle 13 is an extension of my development and testing environment, and it is a labor of love! I run various demo installs of open source applications and community tools and do walk through training sessions on the back end. It is a more intimate situation than a demo on the application's site, and I believe I am a little more coherent than most manuals. This may not be the big way to get more joomla!, b2evo, FlexCMS, FMYI, whathaveyou users, but it is a good way to get wonderful people and their passions out into the world.
What started out as a project about "ahistoricity" and the problems that rise out of dislocating images and texts from their original contexts has turned into project that lets people overcome time and distance to make connections and recontextualize. I do hope to bring the writing on ephemera and metadata back into focus through turtle13, but I am content for now to help foster the good use of such a charged and hideously expensive technology. Perhaps I will take my statistics jaunt at luck rubs off and use it to look at the truth of the digital economy and its infrastructure. Still thinking.
Washington State University Vancouver
I currently work for the College of Liberal Arts at WSUV as a weblackey. I have very little at WSUV that currently shows my proficiency with certain web-technologies, but the CLA has been my home ground for developing my skills and my interests: technological literacy, technology planning, models of integrated librarianship, digital librarianship, organizational politics and policies, academic communities, interdisciplinary project development, and a host of other related topics.
I am currently learning Drupal while waiting for the technology revitalization to occur. I make do by using my own systems to promote Faculty projects. Because, when you need a database, you need a database. The latest project is for Dr. Gordillo's class on Immigration
Vancouver Food Cooperative, Clark County CSAs, my local food network
A digital community is wonderful, but it is even more wonderful when you have both a digital community and a hands on community that you admire and respect. I have watched Clark County come alive over the issue of food and farms, and I am working hard alongside many others to make sure that Clark County grows green and strong and just.
Vancouver Food Cooperative is a project and community of heart. It is small, and slow, and hard pressed by ill luck in random companions and economic timing, but it is growing. And it will grow, because Vancouver is changing as a community and finding it does have an identity. Being in the shadow of P-town and the historical growth of the town coupled with its insane periodic expansions has had its toll. I am excited to see this endeavor grow to fulfill all of its aspirations. No matter how long it takes.
Buy local! Support YOUR cooperatives!!
VFC is only one part of the food issue spectrum. Through WE and through listening and talking, I am also hoping to help the local first initiatives for businesses and entrepreneurs get some needed attention: supporting your locale is not just a carbon offset high-falutin'effort. It is the only way that economies can be scaled to normal and be sustainable and healthy. Really!
And there is no getting around how cool Glenn G. at Clark County Food & Farm really is. It is wonderful to have this coherent and active voice to listen to as we pull the threads of our community together.
Corporate Ethics International and the Business Ethics Network
About BEN
Our mission is to help transform the role of corporations in society by building the capacity of our members in their corporate campaign work, by providing education, facilitating collaboration, and increasing recognition of their campaign successes with the funding community and the public.
I have had the great fortune to work with CEI/BEN for over a year. I am currently the webmaster/archivist/technologist for this organization. I get to learn from and contribute to the Corporate Campaign University project that is being developed for BEN members, and I am excited about connecting with all of the member organizations to collect their contributions to the available resources. Sharing what works is phenomenal.
Finding myself able to work in a professional capacity in the social activist community is a life goal that I am profoundly happy to have accomplished. I strive to learn and do more to keep myself more useful for these endeavours. Plus, the people responsible for CEI/BEN are just quite grand.
FMYI
I started watching FMYI in grad school (2003). Just by watching this group develop, I have learned a great deal about technology, activism, community, nonetheless organization. I am a believer. And for good reason.
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