Julie
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Brandon you say; “Making a page show up under about or organizer tools, or the start here menu – that appears for when people are logged in – is a good idea. But it may be worth just having a single page, rather than a whole menu – that then people can find a portfolio of pages.”
Yes its a good idea for logged in members to see pages too. maybe in a different way then Topics if Topics are Groups.
But, and, logged out people need to see pages not groups and again ina different way. Maybe network is not yet the right term to distinguish Groups from Pages.
I see what you mean about having pages on one page though. Might be helpful. I wanted to make them branded with same icon – Art Group and Art Page – like the Inn idea – so we know where we are – so pages and Groups need to appear both different form each other and also appear related.
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– Pages show default for people logged out in the main menu (AND logged in)
– Groups show default for people logged in.that was how I set up pages at first (In Network Pages menu). but logged in people need to see pages also so changed to Everyone can see pages. Groups were already set to logged in only. I did nothing with groups. Just wanted pages visible somewhere. And Topics only had groups (or a mix).
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Topics now has both pages and groups (some with the same name – Education, Art). What do you think of the pages under Network “Groups” (or what ever we want to call it, under About and visable to everyone?
I suppose you can also make pages visable only to logged out under Topics and other pages and groups in menus set to everyone but then the later has duplicates. or we name them “Page” or “Group”
Seems to make it easier on users (and us website ppl) to have Pages and Groups under different menus.
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How do we have hubs and guilds in the same place? Whidby and Whatcome are under Communites (Salish Sea). And Guilds are under Topics.
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Pages need to be visable. Topics show groups only now (was pages or a mix of pages and groups) to logged in members only (great insentive for visitors new to the site to want to join (to access Discussion (forums)). Website visitors (and maybe everyone, logged in members too) need to see the Networks Groups (Pages) to know they want to join the website or (for logged in joined members) be inspired to engage and cross pollinate. So I did an experiment (which I didnt have a chance to explain to Brandon today in both the website meeting nor the “admin” meeting today (Tues).
This Network Groups menu item IS visable with out logging in! It will make pages visable with links to everything a group needs (links that work for logged in members only in the case of Groups Discussion and Resources, etc. GDocs and other off site links are still obviously visable.
Problem I couldn’t solve, was the 4th Page (Seed Guild) would not show and I dont know why. Even changed the Mega Menu structure. Brandon can you help?
I put this under About (for now, or for good) just so it doesnt mess with Topics or the top level main menus. It did weird things under Topics (also probably an indication that I need to learn more about Mega Menus or something). Enlighten me Brandon!
And what does everyone think?
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@cascadiabrandon I “swept the floors” in the Entrance Hall (About Page). Deleted stray html and added an image and embedded the video lost in the html. Hows that look?
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Gotcha!
You mean Art & Culture shouldn’t have a page? (I made a place holder-page – oops) Did you notice my temporary Art & Culture Page and this is why you mention it?
I continue to note the way everyone, especially you, use terms. So a community will not gain a Hub status when it gets active and a Steward? I realized from this discussion that the reason a “locality”(?) or watershed gets a page is when they (the community group or maybe ecoregion) become active enough and have leadership like Whatcom and Whidby, but isn’t that called a Hub?
I starting thinking about how Page of a watershed (Hub?) can show outwardly and inwardly to the non logged in member and the logged in member. Maybe you have plans for this anyway and I can just wait and see.
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Agreed. I wont hesitate to disuss with you. something happened today that made me not communicate well. We will work it out. Good night dear amazing Brandon.
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Sure ok. Thank you Brandon!
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Aha! So not Community Pages. I was only thinking Guild Pages.
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Template Pack for the Style Guide. So we know where we are in the “Inn”/website/network. Love the Inn Analogy (here it is on Miro) to help make the journey thru the website warm and inviting as well as inspiring and , highly functional and intuitively easy to use. Tanja’s Tutorials will help so much! And also the Organizer Handbook – here is the <b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”>Working<b style=”background-color: var(–bb-content-background-color); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”> Document.
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Sure! Go for it.
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“Start Here” works in main menus (better then “Hi”).
And both the “Welcome Group” and “RC Intro Forum” goes to the Discussions (aka forum) and is better then going to the Group Feed.
I like that you put “Coffee House Convos” on same level as “RC Intro Forum” under “Welcome Groups” (plural!). People can come in and start connecting to humans, like the general Telegram channel. We will all be there to help welcome everyone. Good idea!
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I like the Hi menu to be renamed to something like Welcome or Start here, remembering Steven’s first feedback “Wheres the Welcome Group?”.
It is fine to have the Welcome Group being under a menu called Welcome but maybe that Welcome Group link can be renamed to “Start Here” or (to consider Tanja’s suggestion a bit) maybe “Start at Regenerate Cascadia Community”, but that may be too long? Just exploring here > “Regenerate Cascadia Community – Start Here”.
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Liking the shakeup of place identification toward land expressions vs cities (the dominant narrative). @cascadiabrandon this may be an invitation to rethink and rename our communities and their parent Bioregions when we make groups.
