Wazing area managers working as a team
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We Minneapolis / St Paul area managers wanted to show you how we are using the Waze Wiki to better collaborate.
But first, as the newest area manager, I want you to know about the strong team we have here in the recently un-frozen North. OscarC (aka Mr No-Sleep) just streaked to number 5 of the top wazers list. Look out Shorty! OscarC just owns St Paul and it’s suburbs. Lemon is our pioneer. He was fixing roads long before the rest of us even knew Waze existed. And not to forget Honda_Insight, Chroma and, especially for me, sota767, who showed me how to become an area manager, in the first place. The team decided we wanted to a) divide the work better and b) avoid stepping on each others toes, if you get my drift.
So, we set up a Waze Wiki page. We called it the Area Manager To Do list.
If you have never visited the Waze wiki. It is option 9
We have prioritized the road work, starting with the most traveled roads (US Freeway, US highway, Mn Highway, the crossing roads). We have an initial definition of what it means for a road to be ‘done’.
See the top of the Area Manager To Do lists page.
Did I say lists? Well, just scroll down.
Yes, we thought we’d give other US cities a starting point. If you are interested, you may find a copy of our page with some minor tweaking under a link for your city. If you other area managers decide to use it, you’ll just need to add the names of your roads and get going. Plus, I apologize in advance for other cities and countries (yikes!), but you should feel free to edit the to do list wiki page and add your country / City (probably best to start a country specific to do list page for non-US cities).
If you have a bad case of wiki-phobia, you are not alone. So did some Twin Cities area managers but it is not really all that scary. If you can edit a text file with Notepad on a PC, then you can edit a wiki page. Here’s a cute short video, from www.commoncraft.com, that can help you understand wiki’s.
It is found on the Area Manager’s FAQ wiki page...
Hey! Wait a minute.. yes, we even started a FAQ wiki for area managers.
It has some area manager stuff that we have learned. Non-Area managers, who want to edit within a mile of their travels, may find it useful as well. And, please feel free to record your ideas / best practices there.
Oh yeah, and if you want more info on editing a wiki page, you can find it there … uh here.
Thanks for listening and happy Wazing!
rtwolfe and the TC Wazers
As a part of celebrations of Israel 62nd Independence Day, waze has added some road goodies for Israeli drivers. Check out these cute banners, hammers and sprays. (For Independence Day many buildings and cars are decorated with banners with Israeli flag on it, and children play on the streets with plastic hammers and foam sprays.)
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