Continuous site improvement and innovation opportunities

Introduction

This is a starting page for Nexus stewards working together to make Nexus an ever more valuable resource and meeting place for all of us. A steward is anybody who steps up to the responsibility to tend our digital commons, articulate and respond to opportunities to continually improve and innovate the Nexus experience.

The opportunities that we list on the pages linked from this one can be responded to by anyone without technical savvy or deep knowledge of Drupal. Improvement opportunities of technical nature are listed in the Open Task Pool forum.

How to use the "improvements and innovations" pages 

The subsequent pages are organized by areas where we can improve/innovate the site. On the top of each page there are the open opportunities that somebody is not working on yet. When you decide to address one, put your name against its title. When you completed it, say it so and move the item to the bottom of the page. It is that simple.

To allow the at-a-glance review of all opportunities, open and met,  we don't mix  them with long conversations about them. Questions for clarifications, opposing views, related requests and offers can be posted in the Continuous Site Improvement and Innovation forum.

Areas of improvement and innovation opportunities

Beautifying

Examples: adding colors and visuals to content; inspiring silence and mindfulness online, with graphics and sound

Knowledge Gardening

Sub-areas: content development and editing (seeding, feeding and weeding); information architecting; hyperlinking; summarizing; creating special indexes for specific communities of users

Site Navigation

Social Architecture 

Examples: initiate the convening of a wisdom of council comprised of elders we respect and seek their advice about the direction and principles of our site development practice 

Usability

Examples: upgrade user guide, make it comprehensive and well-organized; insert blank lines when long  chunks of text run into one blob