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Here at Razoo there are groups and causes. Generally groups are for connection with people and causes for taking action on some issue. The groups have an interface mush like the groups at Facebook, whereas causes have a blog interface.

Members of this cause can reply to a blog post, for example this post, by adding comments to it. They may also start new discussions by making a new blog post.

Something that concerns people about the blog posts is that right now--it may change in the future--there is not a WYSIWYG composer, in other words no buttons for bolding, italics and inserting links. The link feature is what people really miss.

It's quite possible to insert links into these posts. One way is to use HTML. In this
blog post over at the Power to Make a Difference cause I describe the way I insert links. It's silly really that I've never learned the HTML code for inserting links. But in his comment Community Guru Ryan makes an good suggestion. He says to compose blog posts in a discussion thread in a group then copy and past it in the blog blank here.

There are many good features in the Razoo Causes page. One of the ones we might consider is making a Goal. Goals are tied to Acts. Right now one of the Acts available for all the Razoo community is to ChipIn for Kayiwa's computer. We can make it a goal--for example 20 new contributors.

Another really good feature is the Related Links. All members can add links related to this club. I particularly like that all the links require a short description. So people can tell whether the link is interesting to them even before clicking on it. Of course people can also ad links to videos in the Media spot too.

The blogs have an RSS feed so you can send it to your aggregator, eg. bloglines, i-Google, Google Reader, My Yahoo!, NetVibes, or any other of the many places where you can collect RSS feeds.

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Tags: blogs, computer, Kayiwa Fred, RSS


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Comment added 11/02/07
by Kayiwa Fred

Thank you very much for your prayers am ok now

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Comment added 09/02/07
by meadowlea withlove

Hi John and Jeff,
I really thank you for your contributions!
I'm wondering if this is the active blog or the
other one that John started. Suddenly I'm
very confused. :-)
If you want to work the other one, shall we
move these posts over there?
Would you be agreeable to moving everything
over to Kayiwa's group on Razoo?
He only has 20 min/day max to spend online.
He'll make it over to Razoo before too long. :-)
Just trying to think of how best to keep all this
focused while, admittedly still just learning about
how Razoo works.

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Comment added 08/28/07
by meadowlea withlove

Here's a (hopefully) clickable link to the group Kayiwa Fred's Computer Club:

http://beta.razoo.com/groups/kayiwa_freds_computer_club

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Comment added 08/28/07
by John Powers

It's funny, guys often can't see what's right in front of their faces. A friend calls it: "male pattern blindness." Anyway, I saw on the "what's new" thing that you'd added a comment. I came here three times before I saw it.

Okay so now there's a group <a href="http://beta.razoo.com/groups/kayiwa_freds_computer_club">Kayiwa Fred's Computer Club</a> at Razoo too :-)

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Comment added 08/27/07
by meadowlea withlove

Here is the new group with discussion options:

http://beta.razoo.com/groups/kayiwa_freds_computer_club

http://beta.razoo.com/groups/kayiwa_freds_computer_club/topics

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Comment added 08/27/07
by meadowlea withlove

OK. Sorry to be so all over the place in creating the Fred's Computer Club Group! I've been battling computer / online issues for the past week. I see I did indeed create the 'group' as a cause instead of a group. It's corrected now. Thank you for working around my oversight with so much patience!!

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Comment added 08/26/07
by John Powers

Jeff, I seem to recall this issue of the total amounts not being up to date in another campaign, and that there was a way to refresh the widget thing. Unfortunately I don't remember what the solution was and can't seem to find it now. I will say that I went to bed early morning here in the USA. Before I went I noticed that Lois Brayton had made a contribution. I went to my blog where there is a ChipIn widget and saw the correct amount there. So I think it's a matter of refreshing the widget at a particular location somehow, I just wish I knew how.

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Comment added 08/26/07
by Jeff Mowatt

News: Today I noticed that the Chipin totals are not up to date. $70 has arrived in donations but only $50 is showing.

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Comment added 08/25/07
by John Powers

Well, I'm not sure. I added a link at the Facebook group and also started a new discussion topic there. LOL it seems a bit redundant, but I don't thinkg right now there's anyway around that because it's not clear what tools and communities people from Omidyar.net will decide are best for them and best for which purposes.

My prediction is that Facebook will be a way that people maintain personal connections with one another and that other tools like Razoo will be where people go to do something. But my predictions are generally wrong ;-)

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Comment added 08/25/07
by meadowlea withlove

Thank you very much for creating this blog, John. Now the question is, how do we link this to the Kayiwa Fred's Computer Club so it can be linked to from there?

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