hOurworld^®

From a member's perspective, the following is a brief summary of what I think are the most important differences:

• Ease of Use: TNTv2 has gotten very positive feedback wrt ease-of-use. Probably the best way to assess whether this is a significant enough factor for you would be to enlist the comments of some of the users who you feel might be most resistant to a change.
• Mobile Friendly: TNTv2 was created from the start to function well on mobile devices, in addition to the traditional browser desktop. All functionality in TNTv2 is completely available in the mobile environment.
• In-app Messaging: TNTv2 has a much deeper implementation of messaging between members in various contexts. In addition to simple member to member messaging, conversations can be created based on service ads and announcements. The "Group" functionality is much more robust in TNTv2. The details of how this work are too much to go into here, but if you want a deeper explanation, let me know.
• Notifications: TNTv1 and TNTv2 are more or less on par with one another in this regard, however; web push notification will shortly be available in TNTv2. Mobile-only/mostly users have been agitating for this for a long time.
• Talents and Interests Matching: Several groups that migrated from Community Weaver requested this be implemented in TNTv2..., so we did. Further development will be happening in this area..., especially once web push is available.
• Inter-trading: Alrighty..., this is one feature that v1 has that v2 doesn't. The plan for TNTv2 is to implement federation, which will permit cooperating timebanks to establish relationships with one another that THEY control. This feature has been delayed owing to other features "jumping queue"..., so I'm hoping that we'll be able to offer federation sometime within a year or so.

• Post or reply to Announcements to the whole exchange!
• Receive an automated weekly newsletter of new announcements, offers and requests (or opt out)!
• Post or reply to messages to and from groups you have joined.
• Search Offers, Requests, Announcements, Members, Bios, and Help in one go!
• Add offers and requests and publish them to the home page and newsletter.
• Manage your contact information and privacy.
• Report your hours and view/print/email your statement.
• Add an image to any service offer, request or announcement!
• Translate page content into your preferred language or select your default language.
• [Contact Coordinator] or [Contact Tech Support] from any page after login.

• Members are copied by email whenever a message is posted to a group or another member.


• Members may indicate their satisfaction with a service, and endorse other members.


• Hours reporting supports one to many and many to one transactions.


• Members may delete any transaction they have provided, effectively issuing a 'refund'.


• Members may Search with multiple terms and include city or zip.


• Service descriptions are included in the content that is searched.

As an admin you may do all the tasks above for other members and then some.

• Communicate with, report on, and Map any cross sections of your membership using 30 built in reports wiht selectable criteria.
• Manage the Service, Attribute, and Group pick lists associated with member accounts and admin functions.
• Create and manage your own login/landing page content.
• Edit all automated outbound system notices and emails.
• Track applicant's join process with the dynamic Applicant Pool report.
• Access context sensitive help, search help or 'Contact Support' from any page after login.
• Manage a 'Paper Only' branch of your membership with printed directories and listings.
• Ebuddy feature where one member may Use Account As: (another member)
• Guardian Angel feature for admins or an assigned guardian to be coppied on all content created by, sent or received by the member who may be at risk or be a risk.

Whether you are setting up a brand new Timebank, or converting from your existing software, Time and Talents® offers simple, intuitive and user friendly tools to help you manage and grow your organization!

If you are using TimeBanks.org Community Weaver 3 or 4, we have coded a conversion engine for your existing data.

Conversion is a relatively simple process at your end. You notify your members of a cutoff date. We'll hold some training to get your admins up to speed with using the new system, and that will be ongoing via email and zoom as needed.

We obtain Admin Role credentials from you to your CW-3 Instance. We download ALL your transactions, ALL your offers and requests, ALL your members from all Roles, in any state (enabled yes/no, Applying Member, Russian bot accounts, all of it.) In the case of CW-4 you will be provided with a link to download your data in json format. We pre-process your data in 'holding tank' tables, then use our conversion engine to filter the silver from the dross, and load all of your data into the Time and Talents database. This will include members' profile photos, bios, attributes, transaction histories, offers and requests. We perform the conversion in a half a day.

You let your members know when they may log in to the new platform and provide them with links to a few of the videos (basic intro, recording hours) and together we manage the fallout as it happens! A few members will continue to use the old system regardless of what you have told them, so it will be important to have Timebanks.org take the old platform offline (for members) and remove it from their Directory of Timebanks.

Access to hOurworld, supported by Time and Talents® is and will remain FREE!

To date (Spring 2023) the system member side has been translated into 9 languages. Members may select their preferred language from their Profiles. The timebank may select the timebank wide language from the $btnI Organization Info $xS area. Members and admins may also use Google Translate built into the footer of each page. This will translate any content that is not a hard coded translation, like member or admin generated content not in the default language.

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Language editing will soon be table based for easier access to complete unfinished transalations (marked 'no' in the table below)

Language	Member Area	Admin Area
Arabic	no	no
Czech	yes	no
German	no	no
Greek	no	no
English USA	yes	yes
English UK	yes	yes
Spanish (Castilian)	yes	yes
Estonian	no	no
French	yes	yes
Hebrew	no	no
Italian	yes	yes
Korean	yes	no
Macedonian	no	no
Spanish (Mexican)	yes	yes
Polish	yes	yes
Swedish	no	no
Thai	yes	no
Ukrainian	no	no
Chinese	no	no

• Automatic email and login notification on member's join date anniversary.
• Automatic debit of hours if any, and placement in the Accounts Receivable report queue.
• Report and mark paid or collect hours or forgive as responses come in. A thank you letter is automaticall sent. Embed PayPal if you have it.

(v1) Report Types (listed by frequency of use):

Contact List (*may be mapped)	Accounts Receivable
Transactions by Provider (*may be mapped)	Email List
Applicant Pool	Newsletter Recap
Transaction Count Between Members	Transactions by Service
Hours of Service Provided by Category	Services Provided by Hours
Transactions by Receiver	Count of Services Proviced by Category
Services Offered by Member	Services Offered by Service
Last Member Year Transaction Hours	Donations Report
Birthday List	Members Without Services
Services Provided by Count	Mailing Labels
Members Without a Bio	Member Attributes
Services Offered by Count	Members Without Photo
Members Without Contact Info	Members Without Attributes
Ebuddy Report	No Attribute in a Categroy
Members Without Groups	Members Without Address

Any of these base report results may be customized in real time using a query by example form to narrow search results to a specific cross section of your membership or transaction history! Easily meet your Outcomes Reporting and Grant Funding requirements.

Our service provider, Top of Third, manages our servers at secure data centers in New Jersey, USA.

hOurworld^® / support and setup:

Backups: Daily/Weekly/Monthly backups of files and databases with roll over archiving of daily backups for two weeks.

Servers: All servers are RAID 1, mirrored storage, with multiple processors. They are providing us with a Virtual Server up to date with standard OS and web server LAMP stack upgrades.

hOurworld^® - Time and Talents Maintenance and Upgrades

Upgrades and New Features are available to all exchanges immediately when pushed from the developement platform to the live system via a private GitHub repository for version control, etc.
The source code is proprietary and written in PHP, MySQLi, HTML5, JS, Ajax, CSS, Bootstrap 4.6
We operate in an arena of 'open innovation': co-producing and implementing our members and coordinators best ideas! Think 'open source', but in a corral!
Easy integration of Time and Talents® into your existing web site, so navigating between the two is transparent. (Though no website is required for startups.)

hOurworld^® derives funding from trainings, personal investment, brokered agency software, RPF research data access, grant funding and member gifts. Access to hOurworld^® for local 'mom and pop' timebanks is and will remain free.

Linda Hogan, Terry Daniels and I (Stephen Beckett) co-founded hOurworld^® in 2010. We have member helpers and consultants that are participating in software development projects, training and research. John Saare, a 'Silcon Valley Refuge' and Enterprise Software Developer has become a co-founding member of hOurworld^® and together we are creating a new software platform TNT 2.0 which will be ready for early release mid 2023! We expect the two versions will live sisde by side for some time. There will be no push of users from one platformt to another.

Speak with BJ Andryusky at the
St. Pete and Tampa Bay Timebanks in FL:
or Beth Thorpe, Communications Chair and Webmaster, Louisville TimeBank:
or Steve Bosserman, Columbus Ohio's Care & Share Time Bank:

They'll share honest reports about their conversion process and how they are doing now.

Here's a list of the many timebanks that have converted to Time and Talents from Community Weaver

Once logged in there is context sensitive help throughout the admin side of the system. Click [Help] for help about where you are in the software.

Searchable Help (Knowledge Base) built from answered support tickets and an original more verbose copy of the help system is available throughout.

[Contact Us!] button in the footer of every member page to activate the member help ticket system.

[Contact Support] on the admin side to activate the admin help ticket system. Many responses are archived and searchable.

We're here! Contact Us!

The user will login..., which is required to determine the identity of the user agreeing to the TOS. Before they are permitted to do anything else, they are prompted with the TOS agreement page.

This page will always refer to the hOurworld TOS and Privacy agreements/pdfs. If the specific timebank has provided its own TOS..., that will be presented as well.

The user must check the two (or three) checkboxes and click [I AGREE] before they are permitted functional access to the system.

Whenever any of the 2 or 3 docs are updated, the affected users will be required to 're-agree' to the affected terms.

If the user clicks [I DECLINE]..., nothing is done, the session is terminated, and they are redirected back to the login page.