Making the site

This blog about Helpalot.org moved to helpalot.wordpress.com

Julius — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:02:50 +0000

This blog about Helpalot.org moved to helpalot.wordpress.com.

Should I switch to makingthesite.wordpress.com?

Julius — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:46:11 +0000

I have wordpress running locally, and it starts to run into problems with server settings and behaving strange in some browsers and such. I have no idea how to update to the latest version without risking losing all data and I have no idea if that would fix the problems.

It is probably easier to just switch to makingthesite.wordpress.com.. What do you think?

In Internet Explorer I am not able to add comments, so if you are running in to the same problem, put your feedback here:

http://helpalot.uservoice.com/

Feedback forum at uservoice

Julius — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:49:34 +0000

While we do have a (startingpoint of a) forum, I’ve set up this feedback forum at uservoice.com: http://helpalot.uservoice.com

As an experiment also created a feedback forum for our Dutch prime minister. People can add their ideas to what should be the main priority of the prime minister.
http://ministerpresident.uservoice.com/

Adding context to products

Julius — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:58:05 +0000

I wrote about an idea I had to put products into (social) context.

Perhaps this site does this, I haven’t had the time to check it out but it does seem to have this goal:

http://www.goodguide.com

Programmer needed

Julius — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:23:50 +0000

Hi all, we need help on the programming front.

Requirements:

You are a good programmer & know PHP and MySQL
Living in The Netherlands helps

We don’t pay as much as big companies can, but you get to help facilitate people to find charities they can trust

Interested? Leave a comment or contact me otherwise.

250 profiles

Julius — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:29:47 +0000

We now have 250 user profiles on Helpalot. A nice milestone

Helpalot Forum (soft launch..)

Julius — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:35:07 +0000

On Helpalot you can leave messages on the guestbooks of personal pages, but there wasn’t yet a good place to have a more general centralized discussion. We thought about adding groups and having different types of them (organizations, companies, soon to be non-profits, etc) and we might add those features in the future, but we felt it would change too much of the fundamentals of the site. We first want to learn more about the core of the site, before we want to alter the structure.

The now the plan is to have a forum somewhat seperate of the rest of the site. Then we will send a newsletter every month or two with some updates on what is happening on the site, trends we spot, and we will ask a question to the community. With idea to drive traffic to the forum and via the forum back to the site.

The idea is that using a newsletter people are more likely to be on the Helpalot site when others are too, making it more relevant for them to ask questions to each other and share their knowledge.

At the moment we have set up a forum, but its not fully integrated with the rest of the site yet (for instance the design and navigation part). So a bit prematurely I’ll give you the link:
http://www.helpalot.org/forum/

Introduce yourself over here:
http://www.helpalot.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8

You don’t need to register to leave a message.

Helpalot on Social Actions

Julius — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:45:30 +0000

Helpalot is now linked on the social actions site. Thanks Peter!

http://www.socialactions.com/meet-the-platforms

Another milestone

Julius — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:02:55 +0000

We now have over 100 projects on Helpalot. Mariana added a number of projects that pushed the site over the 100 mark.

This blog is back to speed again

Julius — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:00:49 +0000

This blog was very slow the last couple of weeks. Our host changed some settings and somehow that made everything slow. I just found out that when I deactivated a plugin I used, the site came back to speed so here we are.