Welcome

Welcome to the SolonDeer work site.  This site is not indexed by Google but it isn't secured yet, so sensitive material still needs to be sent via email.  Do make a comment on the appropriate post that there is sensitive material sent as email.  Also make a comment for posts that have file attachments.

Start by selecting a Label on the sidebar to see all posts within a category.

1. First Click the "Help" Label for an introduction to the web services
2. Start with the "Hot" and "WebNow" Labels.
3. Next Click the "Active" Label to see items requiring work.

Ideally active contributors can be given update access, this wold require a Google Account (either your own Gmail account or your email account registered to Google).

This working blog contains a post for each idea.  Anyone may comment on a post.  Registered users can add new posts and edit their own posts.  Contributors can read a post and offer suggestions as a comment.

The goal is to take the idea of the post and make it suitable for publishing (except Strategy & Tech labels which are for internal use).  Given our target audience we'll want to organize info in the following way, write a sentence or two to describe the main point, this will be on the main site, write a paragraph or two that will be displayed on the blog, the rest of the content may be below the summary after a "More... bar".  The site admin will put these parts in the right place.

If you are doing a major rewrite of a post, comment to it that you are working on it, make a new post, on the bottom by Labels, click "Show all", click "Active", an appropriate category, and an appropriate VerDraft status.  As you edit, others may comment on it.  When you are done, select the label "VerFinal" so I can notice it.  When I move it to the public site, I'll remove the Labels and replace it with "VerArchive".

Recent Changes

• Blog is now listed as "Articles"
• CommentsBlog renamed to NewsBlog
• Most News moved to NewsBlog

Tech Help

Here's the basic structure:

1. Main Site - https://sites.google.com/site/solondeer/home
   The first stop for the public
   
2. Blog - http://solondeer.blogspot.com/
   More detailed info
   
3. NewsBlog - http://solondeernews.blogspot.com/
   News, Letters to the Editor, etc.
   
4. Private Working Blog - http://solondeerprivwork.blogspot.com/
   A staging area for ideas, from rough draft to final
5. solondeer@gmail.com is forwarded to solondeer googlegroups which can be subscribed to by any contributor
   

Currently our working web site is not secured, when the city catches on, I will turn off "Anyone Viewing" and require a login.  I will invite you as a contributor to the working blog.

Take a look at Work Blog Label Help to see an introduction.

Take a look at Work Blog Label Tech to see descriptions to the Technical Structure of this group of web services.

The Work Blog contains 90+ ideas...  What's suitable for the web is different than what's suitable as written info.  There's also the Audience issue, much of this is written by Animal Activists and our target is the apathetic uninformed average Joe voter.  I see our goal as breaking this info into a hierarchy, major point, summary, and full detail.  Our target audience may not want to read a lot, so the Main site has to be easy major points.

See Labels WebNow , Hot , and Active for items that need work.

Feel free to comment on any post or to add a new post if you have a completely new topic or issue on the work blog.

Post any technical comments here.

General Help

What kinds of trouble do you have with the web services?

Have you found a better way to explain the various services?

Add your comments to this post...

Thanks...

Audience

We have the following audiences:

1. Animal Rights Activists
2. Animal lovers upset by killing
3. Average person who doesn't care about animals
4. People who believe "something must be done" and aren't aware of non-lethal alternatives
5. Hunters

Groups 1 and 2 don't need to be convinced, group 5 will never be convinced, so out true target audience are groups 3 and 4 who represent the average apathetic voter.

The audience can access the data in a hierarchy, several sentences on a Main Site page points to a several paragraph abstract on the public blog that has a "read more..." separator where multiple pages can be displayed.

We should keep content on the Main site within 2 screens per page so the average person doesn't get bored and just go along with the city.

At the bottom of every article people can comment, or they can view related articles by clicking a Label, or they can return to the main site.

Arguments that work on the first two audiences won't work on the next two audiences.

Labels Defined

Copy public list?  There needs to be some correlation with the Article Site Blog labels, but this site will have more Labels to categorize issues that are not for the public.

Clicking on the Label on the sidebar will subset the posts down to the specific category.

Working Issues

• Active - All issues being worked on, items needing discussion, strategy, but not really content destined for a public site (as ActiveArticle).
  Specifically excludes Labels - Ann, Help, Tech, and VerArchive
  Tag new posts with Active, when post content is complete, Active Label will be removed and VerArchive will be added
• ActiveArticle - All web content being worked on, as active, but items needing editing for publication.
• Ann - Announcement to working group
• Help - Help Info
• Tech - Technical Web details
  
• NewsBlog - News, Letters, Editorials, or Comments for the News Blog
• Hot - Hot / Time sensitive Issue
• Link - Info on URL Links to other sites
• Strategy - How we are going to handle an issue (vs the content)
• Web - General content for the web
• WebNow - High priority web content (from ActiveArticle)
• UnCat - Uncategorized, use if you are uncertain how to categorize, I'll periodically review these labels and find an appropriate Label.

Content Categories

• DVA - Deer Vehicle Accidents
• Garden - Issues related to deer damage to gardens or understory
• Hunting - specifically related to bow hunting
• Lethal - general all lethal issues
• News - News accounts
• Non-Lethal
• Research - Detailed research papers
• Video - Videos

Draft Version Status

• VerRough 
• VerFirst
• VerSecond
• VerFinal
• VerArchive - No longer requires action, Active/ActiveArticle Label removed
• VerUpdate - Designates that the post has been updated

Email vs Blogger

Email presents many organiztion challenges.

When email is copied over to Blogger or Sites it may contain formatting that isn't consistent with the other web content.  If you copy it with formatting than you must try to reformat it to be consistent, either with the WYSIWIG tools or by going into raw HTML and removing the inconsistent code.

Once copied you can remove formatting with the Tx WYSIWIG tool.

However there may be some formatting you want to keep which means if you remove it you'll have to look at the original line by line and reapply the selected formatting.

By composing directly in Blogger the author applies the formatting with Google while writing it making it more consistent and not requiring more post-formatting.

Web Services

This is an introduction to web services, for a more technical discussion see this post.

There are three distinct public sites:

• Main Site - SolonDeer.com - The first place for people to see what's going on
• Articles (Blog) - More detailed information, people will be directed here from the Main Site
• News (formally Comments) - A separate blog to publish News, Letters to the Editor, Editorials, and public comments sent to SolonDeer@gmail.com.

Public Document storage is done on ScribD which can be embedded onto blog posts.

There are private facilities for those active in supporting our effort.  This blog is the main vehicle for that effort.  Google Docs will also be used for collaboration, stay tuned for more instructions.

Call for Work Help

Our Solon Deer Work Blog now has 100 posts, 71 are "Active" and need input and discussion. http://solondeerprivwork.blogspot.com/

Currently this work area is available for everyone to view and comment on, it is suppressed from Google Search but when the city realizes our effort I will need to secure it so they can't see what we're up to.  While that may sound paranoid, I know from past experience that the city DOES IN FACT monitor citizens posting on the web.  I have seen them discover my bainbridge road blog with a large spike as they caught up on what I posted, I have been critical of the city online and been personally contacted within 12 hours of a post.  We can expect them to monitoIr our Solon Deer web presence very soon.

I'd like to encourage everyone who hasn't already registered for a Google ID to do so.  This will allow me to invite you to private work forums so you can read and contribute to secured areas.  See http://solondeerprivwork.blogspot.com/2011/03/google-registration.html  to see the process.  You can use your existing email to register to Google, you don't need to define a new ID. 

Take a look at the Welcome Post to see http://solondeerprivwork.blogspot.com/2011/02/welcome.html

Many of you are already registered to the private blog, some of you are not.  For those who are not, send me an email when you have an ID and I'll send you an invitation to the private blog.  When you sign in to the blog you will have the option of defining a new post, editing a post you authored, or commenting on any post.  See this post for details http://solondeerprivwork.blogspot.com/2011/03/using-blogger.html .

The 71 active posts were derived from the nearly 500 emails I have on this topic.  The work blog is an organization tool that allows you to filter posts by VerDraft status, by subject, etc.  We have 10 posts that have moved to VerArchive status that have been acted on and moved to the public sites.  Our goal would be to make a substantial dent in the 71 active posts to move them through draft status to VerFinal and to the public sites.  The challenge is that information, especially written from an animal activists point of view doesn't translate to a Web Site or Web Blog format nor to the target audience of uninformed voter.  See this post for a discussion - http://solondeerprivwork.blogspot.com/2011/02/audience.html .

Those who are more technical may be interested in how the web services are set up, see http://solondeerprivwork.blogspot.com/search/label/Tech

Everything starts with registering to Google and the Welcome post, we look forward to moving forward with our web content to support our actions..

As always, feel free to contact me about any question or suggestions.

Using Blogger

Anyone can comment on a post, click on "n comments" or the Blog post title and you can see the whole post with an option to comment at the end.  You can see various categories of posts by clicking on a Label in the sidebar (or at the bottom of a post).

To post to Blogger you must be invited as an author and be signed in.  If you are visiting the blog, you can click "Sign in" in the upper right corner.  If not, you can go to blogger.com and sign in.  When you sign in you will be taken to a "Dashboard" showing all the blogs you can be an author to.  It will also say "Create new blog", this is to define a completely new blog.

You can write a new post by clicking "New Post" next to the corresponding blog.  You can also click "Edit Posts" to see a list of all posts, you can only edit your own posts, you can view all of them.  You can also click on "View Blog" to see the whole blog.

From the Dashboard or from the Posting Tab there is another choice - Edit Posts.  This will give you a listing of each post.  You can change the number of Posts Per Page in the upper right corner.   For each post you can View it (or Edit it if you wrote it), you can see if it has comments.  On the sidebar you can filter by Label (for example Active, VerDraft, or another category.  You can search for posts in the top left search box, you can also select All or Published to undo a filter and see all posts (top center).  You can also see the post content (without its final formatting) quickly by clicking the sideways arrow next to a post, clicking the down arrow collapses the post again.

Any questions, post them here as a comment or send me an email.

Google Registration

Most of the Web Services for Solon Deer are under the Google Apps umbrella.  The general public will be able to access services without logging in.  Contributors however will need access to more services and will need to be registered to Google.  If you use GMail that ID is already registered, if not you can register your own email account.

To register your email address to Google accounts go here https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount fillin your full email address then a password and follow the rest of the instructions.

Your email account and its password are secured by Google.  After you've registered, I can invite you to various services and you will get an email, you'll click the verification link and login with your email address and password.  Since most services are Google Apps, this one registration will allow you to access the variety of services.

Each service (Blogger,etc) has a display name that you can choose so that when you use that service that name will be used.  It can be your first name or a pseudonym.  When you are invited to join a service (Blogger, etc) you will have an opportunity to update that display name.

Letters, Editorials, Comments

I have a new blog named solondeernews.blogspot.com that is mentioned on the main site and article site.  If you have any items for that blog, you can post them here as new topics, labeled as NewsBlog and I'll move them to the public view and Label the item as VerArchive.  If the info isn't ready to post yet and you want to collect input then Label it VerRough or VerFirst (as well as NewsBlog).

If you don't have posting ability, then comment to this post or contact the site administrator for help.