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This area of the web site is where everybody discusses 9carrots, shares their experiences and decides how we make this project happen.
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It's easy to get 9carrots going. We even have a Starter-Kit for groups. If your group does not already have one then reserve one here. This area has great hints and covers things likes:
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explaining the model to your local group - approaching businesses
- advising on energy efficiency upgrades
- letting your community know
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How the model all fits together currently. The various stakeholders, motivations, money flows, and stuff. This is where we can extend it and play with it.For example, what happens when a business has installed everything it can?
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The not-for-profit business structure, how that deals with insurance cover, liability and legal things. You will find our Articles of Association here and details of our business model and revenue streams.
Also, 9carrots has MOUs (Memorandum Of Understanding) with other parties for implementing the scheme in other countries.
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Get involved in the development of our web site. If there's a new feature you think would be really useful, put it on the to-do list and discuss it with everyone.
Current priorities include:
- providing an environmental group finder
- improving the starter-pack
- improving the green upgrade complete registration process
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Resources quick links
- oct, 2010by anewholm- the contract
- images
- starter pack (with contracts, receipt books, explanations and advice)
- videos (coming...)
- MOU (Memorandum Of Understanding with foreign franchises)
- supplier contract
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A collection of thoughts from community groups around the world about the role that 9carrots has to play in the solution to Climate Change.
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Other positive projects we like
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9carrots built on
- 21, jul, 2011by anewholm9carrots.org proudly runs on
operating system. An ethical alternative to Microsoft Windows. The technologies, User Experience Deisgn and Graphic Design were and are developed by Annesley Solutions Ltd, a not-for-profit IT consultancy. Contact us for advice and work.
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Too much- sep, 2010by anewholm
I think that this main community page may have too much on it. We don't want to confuse ourselves. Any suggestions for re-organising it?
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Aims- sep, 2010by anewholm
This community section is very open. Every aspect of the 9carrots project can be read, changed and developed by anyone. But that is not really explained anywhere obvious. Maybe that is confusing for people. Do they realise?
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why is it called 9 carrots?- nov, 2010by cindyc
Why 9? Is there a reason?
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are we relying on people to log in and key in the receipt code?- nov, 2010by cindyc
when customers get their receipts, they can look up on the website how the business is doing, but are we relying on people to log in and key in the receipt code (to help us monitor the sales) or do we rely on businesses to tell us how many receipts they have given away? i.e. do we trust businesses to tell us the truth?
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A: are we relying on people to log in and key in the receipt code?- nov, 2010by anewholm
At the moment we are suggesting that groups (your group that is) visit the participating local businesses periodically to check their receipt books. Also, businesses will need to request more receipt books from you when they finish them, at which point you know that the book has been completely used and can register all its receipts. The receipt codes are sequential which means that you can tell which ones have gone from looking at the ones that remain in the book. There is a facility on-line for redeeming "up-to" a receipt. This facility is not available to group members at the moment but it will be shortly. I'll let you know when. It is really useful if customers do redeem their receipts on-line because, that way, we get their email address and also know which shops they have supported. That means we can send them updates to the shops progress and invite them to the installation event.
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what if some of their existing customers end up asking for receipts?- nov, 2010by cindyc
and I suppose one question that the businesses might ask me is what if some of their existing customers end up asking for receipts, for example if we promote the scheme very widely. How can we guarantee that it will be new customers? What if the majority of their customers end up asking for receipts? Then they have to 'lose out' on 10% of most of their sales. What can I say in response to that?
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A: what if some of their existing customers end up asking for receipts?- nov, 2010by anewholm
A very valid point. Firstly, you should point out that they don't "loose" 10%. They simply invest 10% in their business and cutting its costs. You cannot guarantee that they will all be new customers. I have talked with over 70 businesses now personally and I have never had any concerns about this so I would not worry about it.
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are there other groups in my area?- nov, 2010by cindyc
and my last question is, have you already sent starter packs to some other groups in our area and if so, which ones? Just so I can liaise with them so we don't end up talking to the same businesses.
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A: are there other groups in my area?- nov, 2010by anewholm
You can tell which groups are in your area by going to the groups list. This is to be found in the "my account" menu after you log in. It is called "join a group" if you are not currently a member of a 9carrots group or "groups" if you are. It will show all the groups within 50 miles of your registered location in order of distance. If it is empty then you are the first!
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guaranteed usage?- nov, 2010by gemma
Just wondering if we have to guarantee usage in the town with this starter kit or can we use it to tempt and exemplify for people etc.?
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A: guarenteed usage?- nov, 2010by anewholm
No, you don't have to guarantee anything. 9carrots is a very attractive scheme for businesses though so it should not be difficult to get them interested. 9carrots is a collection of groups around the country sharing ways on how to strengthen community. We will help as much as we can but don't need to be in charge at all :)
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RE: Why 9 carrots?- jan, 2011by michael pettit
Hi All! Michael from Milwaukee here. Just wanted to share, when I first asked the question "Why is it called 9 carrots?" The answer I got was (from Annesley) that it is an approach that presents as an enticement; a carrot as opposed to a stick. From there, I associated this with the fact that we are asking businesses to invest 10% of money from new customers. So we are bringing them bunches of carrots, in the form of money from new customers and 9 out of 10 in each bunch, they get to keep for free (free advertising), so long as they set the tenth one aside to do something good for the planet. This is only how I personally rationalised it to make sense of it for myself, but people here seem to accept this explanation.
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Website Widget/embedding- 25, jul, 2011by rebel gardener
Can the map widget be installed into a Facebook FanPage, if so how as we no longer have FBML but iframe, I use Static HTML: iframe tabs application for Facebook and I cannot get it to load. Is the map built into your code or is it just the overlay. I also use tumblr to blog and wondered if there is any advice to embeding it there. As if I just plonk down the code on a custom page nothing loads. Maybe I am missing something obvious as I have been at the comp all day and feel pretty frazzled.
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IFRAMES- 25, jul, 2011by anewholm
Embedding an IFRAME should work. The source should be set to the map page. Can you paste in the code you are using?
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<xmp> <iframe name="9carrots" src="http://cardifftransition.9carrots.annesley.is-a-geek.com" width="800" height="600" frameborder="0" ></iframe></xmp>
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http://cfhub.tumblr.com/9carrots
Its only a test tumblr account I have for our green network in Cardiff but I wanted to test it on tumblr
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Dev link- 25, jul, 2011by anewholm
Oops! Where did you get that link from? The SRC points to the development server (which is off). You need to point it to <group>.9carrots.org, not <group>.9carrots.annesley.is-a-geek.com.
My mistake that the development link is obviously somewhere on the site. I'd better update it...
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Facebook fanpage- 26, jul, 2011by rebel gardener
This code works on Cardiff Transition but it is not live so I cannot link but here is an image of it. http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loyfk5A3b11r08y1zo1_500.png It was installed on Facebook fanpage using http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?api_key=190322544333196 Static HTML application installed on the page. I dont understand tweaking all the numbers but I played with it and it fits without scroll bars with these settings, it is small but hey it fits :-) Maybe Others who understand coding better know what can be tweaked better. **The map page is a little awkward as the map area is small, is there any chance the right hand column can be programmed that you can tuck it in if you want to thus increasing map area.** http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loyfnzWtuM1r08y1zo1_500.png _____________________________________________________ Code was just placed completely into the window of the app. _____________________________________________________ <style> #wrap { width: 500px; height: 500px; padding: 0; overflow: hidden; } #frame { width: 800px; height: 700px; border: 0;} #frame { zoom: 0.63; -moz-transform: scale(0.63); -moz-transform-origin: 0 0; } </style> ... <p>Some text before the frame</p> <div id="wrap"> <iframe id="frame" src="http://cardifftransition.9carrots.org"></iframe> </div> <p>Some text after the frame</p> </body>-
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I took the "zoom: 0.75;" out and still works fine
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Cardiff Transition Page is live but needs editing still just in case you wanted to see page.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cardiff-Transition/111599572270206?sk=app_160430850678443
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Compact style- 27, jul, 2011by anewholm
Try this: http://9carrots.org/consumer/search?1=&2=&3=&style=compact
Maybe with the cardiff subdomain part too
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https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cardiff-Transition/111599572270206?sk=app_160430850678443
This is the link with the link you gave and scaled iframe to have map and left colum in view and right column out of view but scrollable.
<style>
#wrap { width: 700px; height: 700px; padding: 0; overflow: hidden; }
#frame { width: 905px; height: 900px; border: 0;}
#frame { -moz-transform: scale(0.73); -moz-transform-origin: 0 0; }
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<p></p>
<div id="wrap">
<iframe id="frame" src="http://cardifftransition.9carrots.org/consumer/search?1=&2=&3=&style=compact"></iframe>
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