With an update to
www.DerbyCommunityHub.com 👀 You've got to see it - Plus learn more about these great new benefits for communities in Derby!
We're the first community on the planet to be able to install the
@TXTWRK!Documentation: All Activity! and feel privileged to educate you about this historical movements for the City of Derby, our nation and globally on the world stage!
TXTWRK really proves the reason in public, open & transparent character profiles.
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What does it all mean?
1. By adding your location at TXTWRK, you can become part of Derby's connected community network.
When you create your TXTWRK profile and add
Derby as your location, the public information and activity you choose to build through TXTWRK can become associated with that location.
That means we're not simply creating another local directory where somebody has to manually add every person, organisation or update.
We're beginning to create a
living community index powered by the people actually using it.
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2. Your public TXTWRK activity can become useful beyond TXTWRK itself.
TXTWRK isn't only about creating a profile.
Public TXTWRK records can include things such as:
•Your public profile
•Posts and updates
•Topics and categories
•Events
•Checklists and volunteering opportunities
•Feedback
•Questions and community activity
•Skills and contributions
•Projects and work
•Products and other public activity
•Location-connected records
The important idea is that these records don't necessarily have to remain on one social timeline.
Through TXTWRK's
Web API Kits, participating community websites can use TXTWRK's structured public information within their own websites and services.
Publish once. Build a useful public record. Let that record become discoverable in more useful places.
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3. That's what we've installed in Derby today. 🌍
Today we've installed TXTWRK API technology across:
www.Derby.support
and
www.DerbyCommunityHub.com
This allows our community websites to connect with TXTWRK rather than us having to manually recreate every piece of community information ourselves.
There are two important parts we want Derby to understand.
The Linking Menu
The TXTWRK
Linking API Kit helps connect people with locations.
By setting your location on TXTWRK, your public profile can become associated with Derby and made discoverable through our connected community services.
Our
Linking Menu can then help people explore and search the community using filters designed around useful local discovery.
Over time, this creates something much more meaningful than a list of names.
Location and profile information can help people discover others through things such as:
•Location
•Time in an area
•Languages
•Community involvement
•Volunteering interests
•Skills
•Career context
— where those fields form part of the appropriate public profile/search information.
It means a community website can start asking a much more useful question:
"Who and what is actually connected to this place?"
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4. The new All Activity API Kit takes this another step forward.
The
All Activity API Kit allows public TXTWRK activity to be featured through connected websites.
So rather than visiting Derby.support and only seeing information written directly by us, the website can begin reflecting activity created by people using the wider TXTWRK network.
Where that activity is publicly available and connected appropriately to Derby, it can become part of the local discovery experience.
This means Derby.support can increasingly become a window into what people are:
doing, creating, organising, offering, asking, sharing, developing and contributing across Derby.
And because this is delivered through an API Kit, the information originates from the TXTWRK system and can be presented through our own community website.
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5. Public does NOT mean everything about you becomes public. 🔐
This distinction is incredibly important.
TXTWRK is being developed around
public records with clear private boundaries.
The purpose of these community API Kits is to make appropriate
public information more useful and discoverable — not to expose people's private account information.
Private or protected areas can include things such as:
•Private messages
•Notifications
•Private to-dos
•Private saves
•Scrapboard information
•Wallet and balance areas
•Business dashboard information
•Purchase/address information
•Certain checklist application information
•Your registered email address
So when we talk about an open and transparent community network, we're talking about making the things intended to form your
public character, public activity and public contribution useful.
Your private working and account information remains a different layer.
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6. And what about Premium or paid TXTWRK services?
TXTWRK also has a separate
Premium/service layer and is developing additional paid tools and tiers.
That is different from the principle we're demonstrating here.
The community discovery idea is about connecting appropriate
public TXTWRK records to useful community services.
Private account areas, protected information and paid/Premium services don't suddenly become public because a community has installed an API Kit.
Think of it as different layers:
PUBLIC
Things you intentionally build as part of your public TXTWRK presence and activity.
PRIVATE / PROTECTED
Your personal working areas, account information and protected interactions.
PREMIUM / PAID SERVICES
Additional TXTWRK services, tools and capabilities provided through its service tiers.
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7. Why does this matter for Derby?
Because we're testing a different model for community technology.
Instead of every community organisation building another isolated database...
Instead of residents repeatedly creating the same information on different websites...
Instead of useful community activity disappearing down social-media timelines...
We can begin connecting structured public information together.
A person can build their public character.
An organisation can document what it does.
Someone can publish an opportunity.
Someone can volunteer.
Someone can create an event.
Someone can share feedback.
Someone can contribute skills.
And community websites can begin helping people
discover those records through the place they belong to.
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Derby is helping demonstrate what that future could look like.
Today we've installed these TXTWRK API Kits into
www.Derby.support and
www.DerbyCommunityHub.com.
This Friday, we're excited to show you more.
Add your location on TXTWRK.
Build your public profile.
Share useful public activity.
Connect with Derby.
And watch what happens when a community website becomes connected to the people who make the community what it is.
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Discover. Connect. Contribute.
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