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CreativeCitizen.com, The Green Wiki, Launches its Public Beta
We started testing Creative Citizen (CC) in private beta about a month ago. With a substantial redesign, the company announced its official beta launch today.
CC is based on wiki platform that enables users to post and adopt green solutions such as Avoid Bottled Water, Buy Local Food, and Work from Home/Telecommute. Each solution is quantified in terms of how much water, waste, energy, and/or dollars it saves when implemented. A personal “greenage” total is tallied on one’s profile page, while the aggregate of the community can be found on the Citizens page. The community can contribute to or edit the solutions with research and links to further refine them, and one can attain “expert” status by proving one as such in certain areas.
Below is the official press release and video tutorial.
CreativeCitizen.com today announced the public launch of the action-based Green Wiki after a short period in private beta. Creative Citizen informs people about how to care for the environment and save money in the process.
CreativeCitizen.com is a new breed of collaborative website that enables users to create, share and adopt Creative Solutions for eco-friendly living. Creative Solutions are tips, green products, habits, and services that reduce environmental waste. Viewers can find solutions on a wide variety of topics that experts or the general community have posted such as “Kill Junk Mailers” or “Video or Teleconference.”
CreativeCitizen.com takes advantage of the competitive nature of humans for the greater good through a game-like interface where users can score points for various activities on the site – such as posting or updating Creative Solutions.
Anyone can use the site to facilitate the growth of knowledge for sustainable living, through its wiki-model platform and track the positive environmental effects of the solutions they pledge to adopt, also called their Personal CC Effect. Positive impact is tracked through savings of water, energy, emissions, waste, and money. The savings of the entire Creative Citizen community are tracked through a numerical indicator called the Global CC Effect.
Creative Citizen also encourages companies and organizations to post solutions featuring their green products or services in order to reach a fast-growing audience. A company’s solutions can be validated and reviewed by the community lending credibility to an audience frequently concerned with “Green Washing.” Creative Citizen is free to use and has plans to donate portions of its revenue to environmental philanthropies.
“Creative Citizen equips individuals and communities to become more efficient with their resources and therefore more responsible global citizens,” said Scott Badenoch, CEO of Creative Citizen. He added, “Our goal is to help each person see that little, daily acts have truly global effects and while we know that no one citizen can know everything about living responsibly on this planet, our goal is to harness the ever-evolving wealth of environmental knowledge available…and each Creative Citizen is essential to our success.”
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1 Todays Current Events in the Environment » Alert - environmental effect // May 20, 2008 at 2:36 am
[...] Creative Citizen: A Green Wiki Community By Max Gladwell Anyone can use the site to facilitate the growth of knowledge for sustainable living, through its wiki-model platform and track the positive environmental effects of the solutions they pledge to adopt, also called their Personal CC … Max Gladwell – http://www.maxgladwell.com [...]
2 Meryn Stol // May 20, 2008 at 4:29 am
It’s a good concept, but the design is far too noisy. It looks almost from the nineties. There’s obviously lots of interactivity, but it doesn’t look “web 2.0″. The design doesn’t make me want to interact with the site immediately.
I see in the video they even have a rich text editor. That’s just NOT in line with the current popular sites.
I wonder if the designer of this site uses blogs and social media intensively himself. And I wonder if he’s on a mac. He might be on Windows.
3 Meryn Stol // May 20, 2008 at 4:33 am
Found another “error”: User urls are based on userid, not username.
Please don’t tell me it’s written in ASP.NET.
4 Argam DerHartunian // May 20, 2008 at 11:02 am
Meryn,
Thanks for your comments. Our UI is ever evolving just like our database of Creative Solutions, so you can rest assured that we will perpetually improve the user experience.
Creative Citizen is written in Ruby on Rails and we have used the most current and innovative techniques for scalability and structure. The User urls are not an error, but a policy decision for user privacy.
If you have any other questions don’t hesitate to contact me at argam@creativecitizen.com
Thanks,
Argam
5 Make Your Pitch to Save the Planet | Max Gladwell // Jun 4, 2008 at 4:03 pm
[...] Already, there are at least three pitches from the green space: Creative Citizen, which we’ve covered; Zero Footprint, and Go Green Solar. Now you know what it’s like to be a [...]
6 morizongreen // Jul 1, 2008 at 12:23 pm
I appreciate the improvements made on the site since I registered some time back! I don’t have the time right now to really explore all the benefits of being a member, nor figure out how to enter in calculations (seems labor intensive, time consuming, no?), but what I have tested seems quite user-friendly. I haven’t encountered any glitches yet. Not sure how to acquire CC friends…another gander about the site, I guess.
7 7 Questions for Creative Citizen CEO Scott Badenock | Max Gladwell // Jul 10, 2008 at 8:15 am
[...] tracked the progress of Creative Citizen from its private beta to its recent launch. The green wiki platform has generated significant buzz on green and tech blogs, popping up on [...]
8 Ten (More) Ways to Change the World Through Social Media : Sustainablog // Oct 13, 2008 at 10:29 am
[...] Contribute to a Green Wiki: We’ve written about Creative Citizen and Huddler Green Home, both of which offer wiki platforms where you can learn about green products [...]
9 | Your Daily Thread // May 7, 2009 at 7:41 am
[...] very few are green in practice. Why is that?” asks Scott Badenoch and Argam DerHartunian of Creative Citizen. They are bring together green thought leaders (including your daily thread co-founders), green [...]
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