Update and publish user org site listings
For the user org site listings at these URLs:
created with this View:
consider these updates and publish the listing:
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add State/Province and ZIP/Postal Code to the test search View. For example, I did a search for Albany as City and US as Country, and get both Albany, Oregon and Albany, New York as results. See the screenshots below. So adding State/Province to the search would be very useful.
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add in State/Province for some records since it's not required at https://civicrm.org/register-your-site?src=iam&sid=test_mode
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State/Province should be required at https://civicrm.org/register-your-site?src=iam&sid=test_mode if the user first chooses the US, Canada or another country which has those.
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ZIP Code/Postal Code should also be required at https://civicrm.org/register-your-site?src=iam&sid=test_mode , and I don't know of a Country that does not have those
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figure out a way to do ZIP/Postal code radius searching. That way a user can find other orgs in a metropolitan area, not just another city.
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besides updating data, etc, de-duping will be needed - for example, Citizen Action of New York appears twice, which is probably totally my fault.
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add a contact e-mail for the user org profile (not expose an e-mail address directly, but a link to 'Send an e-mail to the CiviCRM contact for this organization' that hides the e-mail address)
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show a street address for the organization
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might want to not include Number of Employees
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In the Country drop down, make the top CiviCRM-using countries as shown at http://stats.civicrm.org/?tab=geography appear first, and then the rest, to avoid users unnecessary scrolling down the Country list - though that might be taken as being too US/UK centric/favoring.
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Consider a way to detect a searching user's location City and Country from the user IP address automatically, to save search time/steps, though that would probably creep out folks too much.
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Add a link to join an existing or create a new Meetup for the chosen geographic area, and to attend CiviCons, CiviCamps, CiviDays etc based on a ZIP code radius search
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display Partners in the given geographic area, again based on a ZIP code radius search
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check that the people on the list of sites have given us permission to publish their (organisational, not personal) data
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as a courtesy remind the orgs that we are publishing their data (we already told them that we might publish their data when we collected it)
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give people a chance to say if their org is not using CiviCRM any more (and ask if not, why not?)
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give partners a heads up on publishing the listing and give them an opportunity to preview the updated version before going live and publicizing the search capability