Mock up of advanced search options?
Andrius Kulikauskas
I'm going through Peter's letter with the specificiations for the Social
Entrepreneur Search Widget.
I don't see the mockup of the advanced search options. It seems as if
the mockup with the basic search options is shown twice.
http://groups.google.com/group/social-actions-dev/attach/40a6300a1f46e151/socentsearchmockup2.jpg?part=2&view=1
http://groups.google.com/group/social-actions-dev/attach/40a6300a1f46e151/socentsearchmockup2-1.jpg?part=3&view=1
Please, do you have a link to the mockup of the advanced search options?
Thank you,
Andrius
Andrius Kulikauskas
Minciu Sodas
http://www.ms.lt
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From: Peter Deitz <peterde...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:20:03 -0400
Local: Tues, Aug 18 2009 10:20 pm
Subject: Social Entrepreneur Search Engine and Widget
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Hi SA Dev,
Here's the second thread in the lead up to the launch of the Social
Entrepreneur API on 8/31/2009.
Jill Finlayson of SocialEdge.org and Social Actions are looking for a
volunteer developer to build out a very simple search engine and widget
that connects to the Social Entrepreneur API dataset. Unlike the Social
Actions API, the Social Entrepreneur API already has very rich
information (including location, picture, organization name,
organization URL, etc).
Below is the description of the task at hand as Jill has described it,
along with some mock ups (attached). Please reply all to let us know if
you're interested.
All the best,
Peter
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Project: Social Entrepreneur Search widget
Completion Date: Functional first pass by Aug 31, 2009. Additional
versions requested for during Mozilla Service Week (mozillaservice.org)
The Social Entrepreneur API is the first open source database of vetted
social entrepreneurs using real-time feeds of social entrepreneurs
awarded recognition from the leading funders in the field including
Skoll Foundations, Poptech, Civic Ventures, Draper Richards, and Schwab
Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. More info:
http://socialentrepreneurapi.org
This project is to create a search widget providing access to the data
in the social entrepreneur database via an open source api calls and
protocals based on the Social Actions API.
This widget will be showcased on Social Edge, the online community for
social entrepreneurs and a program of the Skoll Foundation, and on the
Social Entrepreneur API portal. It will also be available for anyone to
grab/add to their site. Additional widgets will be developed in the
future, but the intent is for this widget to be the primary general
purpose search tool for the dataset.
Attached are mock-ups of the desired widget showing the default
presentation and the presentation with advanced search options.
The default format has the following features and functions:
* Keyword search box
* Link to advanced search options
* View options - default - gallery view with pictures. List view would
omit or tiny thumbnail pictures and minimize text presented into 1-2
lines of text
* Sort by options - default - relevance (based on API identified results
for frequency of term in profile). Additional search options are Social
Entrepreneur (alpha sort on social entrepreneur last name, then first
name fields), Organization (alpha sort on organization name field), and
Funder (alpha sort by Funder name field)
* Individual profile boxes – social entrepreneur title field (bolded);
next line organization; next line intro-text field and then first 140
char of related text (based on key word) text. If no intro-text
available, slide up related text.; blank line; Awarded by line – this
includes funder and date funded – we may replace the funder name text
with thumbnail of funder logo
* Show 6 social entrepreneurs per page – preferably with option to show
more (pulldown menu – show 6, 24, 48 per page) and show how many pages
of results – with numbered next page links. Option to show list view
would include probably 20 per page – defer to web developer recommendation)
* Let’s add small text “Learn more.” near SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR SEARCH
with clickable link to http://socialentrepreneurapi.org
Note that to display images – the widget developer will have to resize
photos (from disparate funder sizes and resolutions) to standard pixel
size and resolution. Please maintain best quality resolution during
compression/scaling.
The advanced search format opens up a section above search results with
all fields checked by default (the user may uncheck those they do not
wish to include in their refined search). Sections for advanced search
include:
* Funded by –currently a list of 5 funders but this will likely scale to
a dozen or possibly more in the future. (For the immediate future, 3
funders are close to joining)
* By region –current list provided has 7 regions identified (may add 8th
– middle east) Note that this is based on a roll up from countries in
the api. Currently the plan is for country specific search to be handled
through the keyword search
* By issue – current list provided has 8 issue areas – also rolled up by
the api
Note that these searches currently refine or filter the keyword search
results. There is no “browse” by selected filters. If this is an easy
addition, please let us know.
Full description of API and field names/descriptions will be provided
upon request.
Future widget development includes:
* Development of different size versions of the search widget (standard
sizes for 1 column, etc)
* Development of versions with list view default
* Development of browse widgets with topic specific search results – to
provide contextual lists of social entrepreneurs (next to articles on
microfinance, health etc.)
* Customizable widgets
This volunteer project is managed by Peter Deitz/Christine Egger at
Social Actions and Jill Finlayson at Social Edge. To get started, please
reply all with an indication of whether you can have a first pass ready
by 8/31/2009.
All the best,
Peter
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Peter Deitz
Social Actions
Founder / Executive Director
http://www.socialactions.com
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