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Changes and fixes for the week ending 5/12/2012

• Help! We've added a new help page where you can send us a help request! Help page.


• If you've added a video to your project, the video will appear first, instead of your photos.


• When you complete a task, you will no longer switch to the Project Leader/Mile Marker 1 section. You will stay in the section where you are checking tasks off.


• We've added helpful reminders on certain pages and on certain actions that let you know about next steps you should take. For instance, if you've added a video for the contest, you'll see a reminder that tells you to complete your grant application.


• We've added City and State options to help donors and volunteers narrow down search results.


• Created a new badge: Maurice Sendak Tribute. Read all about it.


• You can now sort the comments within your project by Newest First, Oldest First, and by the poster's name (A-Z).


• Dozens of smaller errors from getting Team Members to appear correctly to fixing the alignment of content to comment dates and many more.

Many of those smaller errors we fixed were found by people like YOU!

We really appreciate all the phone calls and the emails we've received from our brave Early Adopters. The time you take to let us know of a problem really goes a long way towards making this a fantastic tool to help you plan your dream playground. Please keep those calls and emails coming-- and don't forget our new Help page too!

Hi Sherry,

I'm very sorry about the challenges you've encountered as you've tried to setup your project on the Our Dream Playground website.

We are still tracking down and working to squash the bugs, so I really appreciate you taking the time to let us know what wasn't working for you.

We are aware the site is slow, and optimizing the site for much faster page load times is definitely a top priority.

The "Oops" message you are receiving when you try to revisit your project is connected to a bug with the short URL's-- they are not routing to project pages correctly and it's the #1 thing our team will be working on fixing today.

The problems you encountered while editing your project are new, and we'll start investigating them right away. If you can email me the picture you were trying to upload, that would help me in the investigation.

For volunteers, there isn't a place where you can manually enter the names of your volunteers. When someone visits your project's page and presses the volunteer button, they will have the option to either RSVP for your scheduled Build Day or join your project as part of the planning committee. Becoming a Build Day volunteer doesn't require becoming a member of KaBOOM!, but joining the planning team does. Both groups of people are in your project's Manage Volunteers section. New team members will appear in Unassigned Members, and you as the project's leader can assign them to the various planning teams. Build Day volunteers appear on the Build Day Volunteers page.

Tasks are available on the Manage Tasks page. Tasks are organized by Mile Markers and Teams. Select a team on the left, and then move through the Mile Markers above to see the tasks throughout your project's timeline.

Again, I want to apologize for the problems you've encountered. We are working day and night on the site, because we care about the future success of your project, so we all appreciate your patience with us as we work to move from Beta to a finished product.

I've noticed you've already used our Help page to send us messages, and I'll be responding to them shortly. Please don't hesitate to use that tool or email/call me directly if you have any problems or questions about the website.

--Jason Cooper
jcooper@kaboom.org
202.464.6189

Changes and fixes for the week ending 5/4/2012

• You can now setup online fundraising for your project! Learn more about fundraising on our FAQ page.


• "Forgot your password" links are now working correctly.


• You can disable your own project, if you don't think you can complete it. Do this on the "Edit Project" section of your project.


• Your personal profile page will show the correct location, if available.


• "Somewhere USA" is gone.


• Your project pages now have Facebook's "Like" button and a Twitter button.


• We've introduced a Help page. Go to http://ourdreamplayground.org/help.


• In search results, your progress will be displayed by an orange thermometer. If you have donations enabled, a donate button will appear. Keep your project up to date, the more progress a project shows, the better chance someone will donate to it!


• Newest entrants into the Video Contest will appear at the top of the video contest page.


• You will see alerts when you've earned a new badge!


• Lots of miscellaneous bugs and errors have been fixed.

We have many more changes on the horizon! We want to make your dream playground come true, so keep an eye out here for more fixes and feel free to let us know when something needs improvement.

Hello!

I'm going to try and give you some help here amf2011!

First, that issue with the pictures should now be fixed. If you look at your project and you still set it, please let me know.

To make things easier for all our project leaders, we've significantly reduced the number of tasks. You are right, not everything transferred, because the old tasks didn't have a corresponding task in the new system. To move your project's progress forward, feel free to update the new task lists, but don't worry, we are well aware of your project's progress and it will not affect your grant status.

Anyone can continue to use their KaBOOM! username and password to get into the new site, so your team members should have little difficulty signing in and getting back to work.

I'm available if you or your team needs help, so please give me call or email! (202) 464-6189 or jcooper@kaboom.org.

Make sure you check out the FAQ for Our Dream Playground as well. There are lots of good tips there as well.

Today is the last day to vote! Vote NOW!

"Garden of eatin" is very clever-- that's great.

I've been voting daily!

Agreed! Happy (belated) International Women's Day to all the mothers, grandmothers, guardians, teachers, and caregivers that bring play to kids every chance they get!

I'm in! I added a a school photo from first grade.

Hi! Sorry you are getting that error message-- you shouldn't be seeing that for a regular jpg file. Can you email me the photo you were trying to use? My email is jcooper@kaboom.org.

Sorry again for the problem and thanks for letting us know about it.

It is unknown if any of the recreational facilities are open to the general public and what their hours might be.

Small, but not in a bad way, playground tucked away in a cute neighborhood. There is a beautiful mural on the east-facing wall of the playground too.

Rest assured, these awesome temporary tattoo's will soon be mine.

"Don't forget to play," tattoo's from Tattly.com

Congrats on the new blog Angie!