If you have a blog, website, or use social software such as Twitter, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Flickr, Facebook, social networks and so on, you can mark what you are doing for the Earth, and sometimes what other people are doing. Here’s a quick introduction for using proxri-related tags, text markers and hashtags.
1. Proxri - A proxri is a reward which relates elements in the proximity. (More on proxri.) So, when you do something for the Earth related to climate change, we’re calling that a ClimateProxri (with no space). When you do something for the Earth that is green in general, we’re calling that a GreenProxri (with no space). GreenProxri can be a catch-all if you’re sure it’s green, but not sure if it relates to climate change. These two terms, ClimateProxri and GreenProxri, can be used as text markers, tags, and hashtags.
2. Text Markers - Anywhere you describe in text what you are doing for the Earth, you can use the terms ClimateProxri or GreenProxri in your text. Then, searches which include ClimateProxri or GreenProxri will find your text.
3. Tags - If you blog or use a social media site or service which supports tags (sometimes called categories, keywords, topics or labels), you can use the terms ClimateProxri or GreenProxri to tag what you are doing for the Earth. On services like Delicious and StumbleUpon, you can tag what other people are doing too! Then, searches using tags which include ClimateProxri or GreenProxri will find what you and other people are doing.
4. Hashtags for Twitter - If you use Twitter, you can use hashtags to mark your tweets, which then are searchable via the hashtags. So to mark what you are doing for the Earth, use the hashtags #ClimateProxri or #GreenProxri in your tweet. (You just add the “#” symbol to the front.) You can then find people using these hashtags with a search on hashtags.org, and via other search methods too. Some people post to Twitter and Facebook at the same time, so feel free to use these hashtags on Facebook too.
That’s it in a nutshell for ClimateProxri and GreenProxri. To learn more about marking your location, and also marking ProxMonitors and RelatePoints, see the What You Can Do section of the Proxearth proposal.
Why use these tags, text markers and hashtags? With the Internet, we’ve created the potential for global collaboration. Perhaps we need some global collaboration standards which relate to the global challenge of climate change. Some standards for tags and text markers could turn the whole Internet into a kind of web 2.0 application for climate change, by making what we’re doing more visible for searching and search engines. This could create the beginnings of a broad participation platform for information sharing and collaboration related to climate change.
