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Whats coming next on Idealist

•  (30-40 minutes)
• The goal of this first session is to tell people
  what to expect to see in the next few months.

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Index

• Main challenges.
• What are we going to do?
• How is it going to look?
• Preparing the site for the change.
• When is all this going to happen?

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Main challenges

• To reinforce the process that our organization
  is following (AWB 3.0)
• To communicate to our users more clearly what we
  do
• To improve our users' experience
• To have a nicer website
• To support multiple languages effectively
• To anticipate and be prepared for substantial
  growth
• To link our users (building community)

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What are we going to do?

• New (unified) look and feel
• New home page
• New header (logo / session component / Index
  search / Drop down menus bar)
• Main paragraph Explain what we do in one
  sentence
• New members joining us (real time)
• Join us button
• Tabs Menu
• Main blog - Default (follow up what's up)
• Nonprofit news
• What you can do (summary by time you want to
  dedicate)

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What are we going to do?

• Change main user's flows. The single entry point
  as a user will be as MI user.
• MI control panel redesign
• Define/edit public profiles - Edite/Define
  EmailMe preferences - Create/edit and manage
  listings for their Organizations/Groups (Online
  groups, Outreach teams, Community points, etc.) -
  Use specific tools for registered users (i.e Find
  People)
• Other features (some samples with no specific
  order)
• Archive listings
• MI Events
• Speaker bureau
• Network of trust
• Integrated Forum (Community)

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Preparing the back-end for the change

• Page wrapper
• Character encoding (multi-language)
• Unified login
• New registration flow (forms)
• New index search
• Better caching
• Tool to link records in different languages
• Picture up-loader (flickr.com)
• Geographic normalization- XML/RSS syndication
• Translation tools
• Standardize the use of CSS client side
  interaction
• Automated testing tools

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When is all this going to happen?

• - We have been working on some parts of this
  during the last few months.
• There will be a big Release (41) during April
  that will include much of this changes (including
  New home page).

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