Digital Ocean: Check Out the New Look
Greetings Fellow Ocean Enthusiasts:
Over the last few months we have substantially updated the Digital Ocean platform. It’s now easier to create a compelling profile that reflects your efforts toward ocean sustainability, and to, share images, videos and publications. You can now set up public and private groups to collaborate with your associates in a much more fluid way than email. And the improved user interface makes it easier to invite your associates to Digital Ocean, where they can highlight their own work.
Another new feature enables you to *publish your content to Google Earth.* With this feature, we can help build collections of information around the globe that are easier to locate, share, and use. Google has provided significant support for our efforts at Digital Ocean, and we’re grateful to them for that support.
We encourage you to invite more people to join us and to share media. With more people collaborating on the platform, we can accelerate our collective efforts to help solve our oceans’ challenges.
We also invite you to take a tour on the improved home page, and to update your profile to reflect your best work. Accurate profiles will play a major role as we add new capabilities. It only takes a few minutes and will help to expose to others what is being done today to help improve our oceans.
Digital Ocean has been developed in partnership with the University of California Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management under the leadership of Dean Steven Gaines. We are working with Steve and his team to develop new methods for funding and more effectively collaborating around ocean Issues (and later, we hope, other environmental concerns).
We look forward to hearing from you and others in the community regarding what features to add to the platform. Please join the conversation by clicking the “feedback” button on any page of the web site. With your feedback and encouragement to others tojoin Digital Ocean, we can more successfully build a platform that is not only for, but also of and by the community.
We expect to share many more announcements of partnerships and collaborations in the months
ahead. I’d also like to gratefully acknowledge the efforts of the Outhink team that helped to move Digital Ocean toward increasing effectiveness as a tool for ocean sustainability: Edward Zwart, Nicole Argyropoulos, Laura Militello, Janice Banser, and others including Lucie Moses, John Melack, Paul Wicks, Richard Hutton, Cathy Boggs, Kerry Tremain, John Hanke, Jenifer Foulkes and so many others.
-Dave Toole
