Boston Community Change

Almost every page in WiserEarth has a Network section (except wikipages) which allows you to connect and map related records (people, organizations, resources, solutions, jobs, events and wikipages). Here's what it looks like:

Here's what shows up if you click the [Visualize] link for the organization Bioneers:

This is an interactive visualization where if you click a node, you will be taken to the network visualization of that node. Here is what comes up when clicking on the yellow "Biocultural DIversity Working Group" (yellow at middle left), which is a WiserEarth group.

Any WiserEarth record can be networked and visualized this way, allowing you to see and thread through the connection between a given organization and article and the article's author, this group and that organization and the organization's members, my event and your article and your organization, etc.

This network feature is the centerpiece of WiserEarth's ability to map and connect the many people and organizations  working toward a just and sustainable world, allowing the movement to see itself and more effectively connect.

The [List] view allows you to see and edit the description of relationship between any two entities.

How to add and map network relationship

1. Click the [Add] link to go to a search page which will allow you to search WiserEarth for entities you want to connect to an organization. This can be existing content, or new content related to an organization that you have just added to WiserEarth.   2. Click which entity you want to search and connect to.   3. Add tick marks to applicable entities in the search results. You can add multiple tick marks in multiple pages of the search results.   4. Click other entity type you want to search and connect to and repeat the above procedure

5. Click the Add Connections button to proceed and you will be taken to a page listing all your selection. You can specify type of connection for each entity in similar fashion to the [List] view above. Click Finish if you're done, and you will be taken to the well-networked organization page.