Farewell ThirdGoal
March 31st, 2008 by ChristianandAlysia.After a year of blogging here at Third Goal, we have decided to make the move to another blog site. To those of you who have followed our blogs about our Peace Corps experiences in Mexico, we’ve appreciated your interest and comments.
Christian & Alysia
April 7th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Dear Christian & Alysia,
I’m sorry to see you go. I enjoyed reading about your experiences in Mexico (found here). Thanks for using ThirdGoal.com, I hope you check in on us from time to time. If you have any suggestions as to how I can improve the site, please don’t hesitate to say so here.
Sincerely,
Jason Pearce, Founder
April 15th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
The pictures are great, maybe we can find more or is it still flikr?
I found this at LJ. I think that Coyne got the institutional memory job. I’m not sure if s part time or full time.
Peace Corps Wiki
I just got an email about making an RPCV wiki. What do you think?
Dear RPCV,
For the first time in its almost fifty year history, the volunteers themselves are happy to announce the creation of a wiki based website dedicated to collaborative work.
http://www.PeaceCorpsWiki.com/
An institutional memory of this complex organization is being built day by day creating a bridge to an exciting future. This is an effort, lead by recently returned volunteers, to positivity develop the concept called Peace Corps - the history of Peace Corps and the projects that volunteers have done in over 139 countries around the world, ever since Kennedy announced ‘And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.’
There are now a handful of administrators volunteering their time to the project and regular users (both registered and anonymous) have added almost a 1,000 pages of contributions.
However, we still need your help!
The ultimate goal is to have everything cross referenced, searchable, and freely available to anyone interested in the Peace Corps; countries, cities, sectors, volunteers - all relating to the Peace Corps service and its history for the past 47 years. We’re hoping that eventually volunteers would be able to read what progress has been made in Tamali, Ghana (for example) in the past 40 years. Which volunteers were stationed there? What did the Education volunteers have to do differently in The Gambia then Education volunteers in Senegal, Guinea or Mauritania? What projects did volunteers in Malawi work on 10 years ago, were any in Mzuzu?
You are even encouraged to create a page about yourself! What country did you serve in? What projects did you work on? What was in like serving in Venezuela in 1962, or being one of the 21 total volunteers who served in Bosnia-Herzegovina from 2000-2002? We even made it easy for you - on the main page is a ‘Add Volunteer’ box - just type in your name and the hard part is done for you!
Served in Farafenni, The Gambia or Gyumri, Armenia? Want to make a page about your town or village? Please do. Think the page for your country of service needs a few pictures? Welcome to upload them and post them. (As of now we’re using roughly the same standards as Wikipedia) The page for Ukraine has pictures of what the electrical outlets look like!
You can’t break PeaceCorpsWiki - anything can be fixed or improved later. Don’t be afraid to edit - anyone can edit almost any page, and we encourage you to be bold! You do not need to register as a user to contribute; anonymous legitimate edits/suggestions are welcome.
More than 190,000 people have answered the call to serve, and the PeaceCorpsWiki site provides the tool necessary to capture and disseminate this valued knowledge. You are welcome to join us and contribute your first-hand knowledge to this collective public information exchange.
Thank you,
-Mike Sheppard
RPCV / The Gambia (’03-’05)
http://www.PeaceCor psJournals. com/
http://www.PeaceCor psWiki.com/
This e-mail can be forwarded and distributed freely to other RPCVs who may be interested in this project. We only ask it remain intact, in full. Thank you.
Disclaimer: PeaceCorpsWiki (.com/.org) and PeaceCorpsJournals (.com/.org) are not affiliated with the United State Peace Corps. The contents of these websites belong to the group’s members and do not reflect any position or policy of the U.S. Government or the Peace Corps.
WANTED VOLUNTEER WEB DEVELOPERS:
If you are a web developer we are interested in your help. We are working on including several Web 2.0 applications to complement Peace Corps wiki and blog sites. Currently, we can only offer kundos and karma, in true Peace Corps spirit, but the Peace Corps Wiki (.com/.org) and Peace Corps Journals (.com/.org) are filing for 501c (3) status, and around the beginning of next year, should have it. So, if institutional memory building and creating connections across the world to build a more sustainable future is close to your heart, WE CAN USE YOUR PROGRAMING HELP = GIVE YOU A STAKE IN THE FUTURE OF THESE SITES AND THE NONPROFIT THAT WILL MANAGE THEM. The project has been carried forward on volunteer spirit; we have great plans for the websites that are developing and the Nonprofit that will manage them. Functionality of the sites needs to be increase with new sets of tools for better search, organization, and filing. With close to +200,000 RPCVs, it likely these sites will be swamped with people sharing stories and tips about their service and sites…we welcome you this massive experiment in free information sharing.
SOME SKILLS, we would like:
Let us know if you are interested in any aspects of the project, either as a contributor, promoter, or web developer. (or any other field!) This position is not limited to those that served in the Peace Corps.