Voices
of Humanity - Order out of Chaos
finding
our common humanity across
all
national, religious and cultural boundaries
Getting
Started, 123
Read down the list in
the Forum.
Vote on the item you
are reading if it is significant in any way. Use thumbs up or
thumbs down to vote.
Write a message of your own. Use the "Add my
voice" button to start a new topic or click the "comment"
link to reply to one of the items.
Tips
Use
the "Me & My Friends" button
to get to your profile and email settings.
The
"Order Out of Chaos" button
at the upper left takes you to the forum.
The
"Voices of Humanity" button
at the top of the Order Out of Chaos page displays the winning
messages overall and by gender and age..
Click
the title of a message
to expand it. (The + sign in the upper right will also expand
the message.)
The
short version
of your message can be edited separately to give people an idea
of what they will get if they expand the message..
A
"thread" is
a root message plus comments. The "Options" button in
the upper right gives you control over how each thread in the
forum list is displayed. The "Unthreaded" option shows
every message in the list separately, whether root or reply, so
in combination with Sort by Date, it is useful for finding the
latest entries.
The
geographic levels
on the right allow you to filter the messages according to the
location of the author. To take full advantage, be sure to enter
your state/province, metropolitan area and city/town in your
profile. So, for instance, if you are from Oakland in
California, you can set the geographic level to see only
messages from fellow Oakland residents, or up a level to San
Francisco Bay Area residents and so on.
Communities
are designated by the @ sign.
@VoH means the Voices of Humanity Community. @UN_goals means the
UN Goals Community. Click on a community name to go to the list
of messages written by the members of that community, where you
may join the community if you want. You can create a new
community for yourself on your profile. Then it is up to you to
do outreach to persuade others to join your new community. Use
the Communities button on the upper left to see a list of your
communities.
Hashtags
are designated by the # sign.
You add hashtags to the text of your messages. There is an easy
way to search for messages with a particular hashtag -- look on
the right of the forum list.
There
is a tricky feature to notice here.
If you go to a community and then add a message or a comment,
then the system automatically adds a hashtag corresponding to
the community to the text box that it opens for your message.
You can remove the hashtag if you prefer, but the notion is that
if you are writing a message while you are at a community, then
that message probably should be marked as of interest to that
community. For instance, if you go the @UN_goals community and
click "Add my voice" the edit box that opens will have
"#UN_goals" already in it.
If
you are a member of a community,
you can easily select that community on the right of the forum
list. But notice that you can also select the hashtag that
corresponds to the community. There is a good reason for this
dual selection for the same community. To use @UN_goals again as
an example, members of the @UN_goals community are also members
of other communities, so if you select only @UN_goals, then the
list will show messages that may not be of direct interest to
@UN_goals members. So if you select both @UN_goals and
#UN_goals, then you will get a list of messages written by
@UN_goals members and meant to be of interest to @UN_goals
members.
The
Together & Apart button on the left
takes you to a list of collective conversations between
communities. Together & Apart is a “both/and”
strategy designed to overcome the us-vs-them mindset that makes
international cooperation on global issues so difficult. How
does it work? Voting on messages gives each participating
community a collective voice of its own. For every T&A
conversation, there will be a monthly Together phase followed by
an Apart phase. Winning messages for both phases will be
available online and emailed to the participants. In the
Together phase, messages from all participating communities are
mixed together and voted on by everyone. In the Apart phase,
messages are elected separately by each community.
Something
to realize about Together & Apart:
When you go to a community that is part of a T&A
conversation, you are taken to the conversation with the
community as your “perspective”. If you want to go
to the community outside of the conversation, use the “Leave
Conversation” button at the top right of the page.
About
Voices of Humanity - Order out of Chaos
Voices
of Humanity (VoH)
is a project of Collective
Communication, Inc. (CCI), a California non-profit. Roger
Eaton is Founder of CCI and Executive
Director.
Our new President Bronwyn Galloway is looking for women to be
active Board Members.
The
mission of the VoH project
is to build an online community that will heal the world,
bringing order out of chaos.
The
Voices of Humanity community
centers around the "Order out of Chaos" discussion
which gives a collective voice to the genders and generations
and to humanity-as-one. These six collective voices are referred
to as the "Voices of Humanity": Voice of Women, Voice
of Men, Voice of Youth, Voice of Experience (middle-aged), Voice
of Wisdom (seniors) and Voice of Humanity-as-One.
The
six Voices of Humanity will
always have something new and inspiring to say. The winning
messages each lunar month at
the new moon
will weave a tale of love and wit, remaking humanity's vision of
itself in the process. Through this new lens, the human race
will see itself as the intelligent, generous and capable species
that we know
we can be,
giving us the trust and confidence we need to cooperate on
pressing global matters. At
each full moon winning messages are displayed which are marked
for nonviolent action, making VoH an “action oriented”
online platform.
Step
by Step
If
you use facebook to register, then it is a little easier and in
the future you can log in with a single click. The software
does not use or save your list of friends, in case you are
wondering.
If
you do not register with facebook, then go to voh.intermix.org
and begin by clicking the "Join" button on the left.
After you register, you will need to click in from an email
that will be sent to you, just to confirm it really is you.
Now
you can read, rate and comment on the messages that have
already been entered by others, as many of them as you have
time for.
Start
a topic of your own by clicking "Add My Voice".
Be
sure to click the "Save" button at the bottom after
you have written your message. That's
it!
Make
Your Gift Work Twice
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