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Creates custom post types for the various data feeds from https://data.interserve.org and automatically 
imports data from those feeds once a day.
Shortcodes
<ul>
<li>[isdata_contact_list link=”type”] shows an unordered list of office names in alpha order.</li>
<li>[isdata_contact_map] shows a google map with pins for each office, linking to the office detail page</li>
<li>[isdata_contact_nearest link=”type”] shows a link to an office in the same country as the user IP address. Needs the geoip extension installed on the server.</li>
<li>[isdata_job_related n=”10″ location=”locations” profession=”professions” duration=”durations”] shows a table of jobs that are similar to the current displayed job or search terms, or if there are no current terms it shows the newest priority jobs. Each job links to its detail page. Each taxonomy term links to a related search.</li>
<li>[isdata_job_list n=”10″ location=”locations” profession=”professions” duration=”durations”] shows a table of jobs exactly matching the currently displayed job or search terms. If there are no current terms, it shows the newest priority jobs. Each job links to its detail page. Each taxonomy term links to a related search.</li>
<li>[isdata_job_search] shows a search form with location, profession, duration and a free text field. It is aware of any pre-set taxonomy terms and will automatically set them in the field values. 
Use this with an [isdata_job_list] field to implement a job search page.</li>
<li>[isdata_story_related n=”10″ location=”locations” profession=”professions” theme=”themes”] ditto for stories</li>
<li>[isdata_story_list n=”10″ location=”locations” profession=”professions” theme=”themes”] ditto for stories</li>
<li>[isdata_story_search] ditto for stories</li>
<li>[isdata_profession_list] shows an unordered list of the profession taxonomy, with counts</li>
<li>[isdata_location_list] shows an unordered list of the location taxonomy, with counts</li>
<li>[isdata_duration_list] shows an unordered list of the duration taxonomy, with counts</li>
<li>[isdata_theme_list] shows an unordered list of the theme taxonomy, with counts</li>
<li>[isdata_statistics] shows a two column table of random stats about Interserve. 
Use [isdata_statistics name=”Updated”] to show the date and time the stats were last updated on data.interserve.org. 
Use name=”Jobs” to return just the number for the count of job openings. This works for any of the other numbers reported by the bare tag.</li>
<li>[isdata_child_pages] shows the pages that are children of this page. It is not related to any of the isdata data sets: it is included as a utility / tool to help build navigation of your site.</li>
</ul>
In the above, shortcode parameters are
<ul>
<li>n=”10″ means restrict the number of items in the list to 10. Range 1..50</li>
<li>location=”locations” means display only items matching the taxonomy slugs for locations. You can use a comma 
separated list like location=”central-asia,india” if you want more than one location. 
If it doesn’t work as expected, check the spelling of the shortcode slug by hovering over a link to that 
term on the public part of the site. Omit this parameter to show all locations. 
A slug is a computer friendly rendering of the human friendly name eg the slug for “Central Asia” is “central-asia”</li>
<li>profession=”professions” as above eg profession=”education,other”</li>
<li>duration=”durations” as above eg duration=”elective”</li>
<li>theme=”themes” as above eg theme=”Prayer”</li>
<li>contact link=”type”: type can be “direct”, which makes a direct link to the office web site (if provided); “donate”, which links to the donations link (if provided). Anything else (or omitting the argument) links to the contact detail page / post for the office.</li>
</ul>
Widgets
<ul>
<li>Job Openings: shows a context aware list of related job openings with links to view them. You can set the number of openings to display.</li>
<li>Stories: shows a context aware list of related stories with links to view them. You can set the number of stories to display.</li>
<li>Child Pages: shows pages that are children of the current page</li>
</ul>
Settings
The Plugin settings page is in the Settings menu: Settings: Interserve Data
Styling
The html tag surrounding each content type has a isdata_job_meta, isdata_story_meta etc class applied to it to help you customise styling. Where relevant, inner elements also have isdata_* classes you can use to further refine your styles.

Interserve Data Feeds

Interserve Job Openings, office contact details, stories, and other goodies automatically pulled from our data feed and displayed on your site.

Paul Fernhout

cfkurtz

NarraFirma is companion software to the textbook <a href="http://www.workingwithstories.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Working with Stories in Your Community Or Organization: Participatory Narrative Inquiry</a>.
Participatory narrative inquiry is an approach in which groups of people participate in gathering and working with raw stories of personal experience in order to make sense of complex patterns for better decision making. PNI focuses on the profound consideration of values, beliefs, feelings, and perspectives through the recounting and interpretation of lived experience.
<h4>What is NarraFirma?</h4>
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It’s a checklist. NarraFirma provides practical guidance as you work, with questions for you to answer, recommendations based on the conditions you describe, activities that help you make decisions, and just-in-time advice.
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It’s a journal. NarraFirma helps you keep careful records about what happened in your project, and it gives you places to reflect on what happened. This reminds you to keep learning as you work, and it helps you to document your project for future reference.
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It’s a kiosk. NarraFirma helps you collect stories, on-line and/or off-line, based on question forms you design (with sample questions you can copy). Because story collection is integrated, there is no need to export or import data.
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It’s a workstation. NarraFirma helps you explore and interpret patterns in your data (stories and answers to questions about stories), creating annotated visualizations you can use to make sense of the stories you collected.
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<h4>Why choose NarraFirma?</h4>
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It’s portable. You can install NarraFirma anywhere, as a WordPress plugin or a Node.js web application. Web hosting is inexpensive, popular, and well supported. You can also install NarraFirma on your local computer and use it off-line. (Whichever installation method you choose, we strongly suggest that you set up SSL security on your web site before collecting or entering confidential or important information. Many hosting providers can help you with this task.)
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It’s a team player. With NarraFirma your team can work on projects together in real time without having to hand files back and forth. You can plan your project, collect stories, discover patterns, and reflect on what you’ve learned – together.
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It’s an open book. NarraFirma is open source software. So if you have a question about how something works, you can just look at the source code to find out. If you need the software to do something it can’t do, you can add new functionality yourself or ask someone else to add it.
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It works in the real world. One NarraFirma installation supports multiple projects, forms, data sets, and reports. Why? Because real-life story projects are rarely simple or predictable. So go ahead and make a mess. NarraFirma is ready for it.
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<h3>Donations</h3>
We have spent a lot of time developing NarraFirma. We appreciate donations, and will use them to keep working on it. You can donate at <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=DGVVDT2D49QA8" rel="nofollow ugc">PayPal</a>.
<h3>Need some help?</h3>
I offer training in the use of NarraFirma and consulting for PNI projects. If you are interested, check out my web site at <a href="cfkurtz.com" rel="nofollow ugc">cfkurtz.com</a>, or send me a note at cfkurtz at cfkurtz dot com.

NarraFirma

Participatory Narrative Inquiry in a box. Gather stories and make sense of challenges and opportunities in your community or organization.

Interserve Data Feeds vs NarraFirma