This week, Herdict is proud to announce the latest addition to its bundle of fantastic tools…the Herdict Discussion Board (a.k.a. Herdict Commons).
Herdict Commons aims to serve as a haven for discussions that go beyond the comments section of the Herdict Reporter; as a place to answer the “what” and “why” of an inaccessible report.
Take www.maktoobblogs.com, a blogging platform, for instance. The site has been reported inaccessible in Saudi Arabia a number of times, but almost none of the reports have comments attached, and nobody knows why the site is blocked. Or maybe non-Arabic speakers don’t know what the site is.
Enter Herdict’s Discussion Board…From the Herdict report, you can click a link to be directed straight to existing reports on the subject (or if there are none, a new report opens up for you):
Once you’ve arrived at the Board, you can make a report, like the one shown below. Reports and tags can be added in any language.
Other users can add comments and replies to the original post. For example, users can translate comments if they have the skills!
We think the Herdict Discussion board can be useful for all kinds of folks – activists might use it to find out more about Herdict Reports they see, and Herdict users around the globe might use it to discuss their experiences with filtering. Anything goes!
As the holidays near, like many of you, we here on the Herdict Team are thinking about those less fortunate than us…so when the perfect opportunity to give came up, we couldn’t resist:
Heifer International allows you to supply a sheep for wool to a family in need
The Herdict Team chose to contribute a sheep, via Heifer International, to a family in need. As the Heifer International web site states, “Entire communities depend on wool and meat from sheep. Struggling families use sheep’s wool to make clothes, or sell it for extra income. Sheep often give birth to twins or triplets and can graze even the hilliest, rockiest pastures unsuitable for other livestock.”
We’re pretty sure our own mascot, Shep, would approve!
The Herdict development team has been hard at work these past few months putting together fantastic new features for the herd to enjoy…the latest of these features is an alerts system that will allow users to register for e-mail alerts for their favorite site or country. To sign up, click the link on the front page or go directly to the Alerts page.
Once you have arrived at the Alerts page, there is a variety of settings to choose from: you can select a country, type in a URL, and decide whether you want inaccessible or accessible reports (or both). You can also choose the frequency of reports.
If receiving e-mail updates isn’t your thing, you can always subscribe to one of several RSS feeds to receive updates on specific Herdict reports. Just click the RSS icon in the URL window of your browser then select:
Look out for other new features coming this week and beyond!
