How to use this website

The Leonardo Energy (LE) website and its blogs, Sustainable Energy Blog and the Electricity Blog, provide you with a broad pallet of information in various formats. The website is structured in such a way that the same content can be reached via different paths. Below is a short manual on the routes that can be followed to LE content.

How to look up information?

• Home page. This page contains the most recent articles posted on LE. Articles remain on this main content stream as long as they continue to attract 100 views per month after the first month.
• Unique URL, tags, streams, syndication, lists. Each article has its own page, with a unique URL in the form of 'http://www.leonardo-energy.org/drupal/node/XXXX' with 'XXXX' the article number. E.g. http://www.leonardo-energy.org/drupal/node/988 for this page. The page for an article can be opened by clicking its title. This offers a few additional features:
• Below the article, you will find a series of tags, for relevant topics, content types, countries/regions or keywords.
• Each of this tags represents a content stream in its own right, which can be opened by clicking the tag. This will open a URL in the form of 'http://www.leonardo-energy.org/drupal/taxonomy/term/XXX' with 'XXX' the reference number for the stream. For example http://www.leonardo-energy.org/drupal/taxonomy/term/17
• Should you use an rss-reader, you can subscribe to each content stream by adding '/feed' to the url of the stream. E.g. http://www.leonardo-energy.org/drupal/taxonomy/term/17/feed
• To obtain an alphabetical list of articles in a content stream, add '/list' to the stream's url. For example http://www.leonardo-energy.org/drupal/taxonomy/term/17/list
• Topics. In the left column of the website, you can see a list of topics. Click on one of them and you will receive a list of content related to that topic.
• Content types. The top menu 'library' gives access to a variety of articles, briefing papers, reports, … In particular, the eLibrary allows to download all our publications onto a searchable archive on your desktop, and keep it synchronised.
• Interactive area: in the spirit of 'short didactics', a variety of minute lectures, quiz, webcasts and software tools.
• Choose a blog. At the upper right corner of the website, you can see links to the Sustainable Energy and Electricity blogs. Those blogs provide the subsets of the content of the website:
• Sustainable Energy blog: distributed generation, climate, energy efficiency, eco-design, green building, …
• Electricity blog: electrical networks, power system economics, ...
• Power Quality blog: harmonics, dips, earthing, EMC, standards, ...
• Photoblog: royalty-free, high resolution pictures with explanations
• Search. Click on ‘Search’ in the block ‘More links’, to mine our library of close to 1,000 articles
• Tagcloud. In the ‘Tagcloud’, also reached via ‘More links’, the main tags are shown, with their size representing the number of content items they refer to. By clicking on a tag, you can view all content that is related to it.
• Archive. At the bottom of the right column of the website, you can find a monthly archive of posted articles.
• Subscription. Leonardo ENERGY offers over 20 mailing lists for subscription. After subscribing, you will receive regular e-mailings containing relevant topics of your e-profile (maximum weekly for subscribers joining all lists).
• Registration. In the left column, you can register as a user. This gives you more interaction possibilities, i.e. voting and commenting.

Definitions

• Application Note: a practical guide of typically 10-20 pages that can assist you in tackling a specific electrical issue in the field.
• Digest: monthly overviews of all published content.
• Minute Lecture: a short presentation, aiming to broaden your knowledge through an animated introduction of 10-15 screens, taking a few minutes of your time.
• Article: a one page news item.
• Tool: a software tool for calculation, simulation, training, or decision making.
• Webinars: a ‘virtual’ meeting to discuss a topic or to attend a presentation, using the WebEx system. Participants need to enrol in advance. During the event, they can follow the presentation via a browser (for visuals) and a conference telephone call (for sound). More information on webinars.
• Webcast: broadcast of a lecture that can be watched via the internet 24/7.
• Briefing paper: papers or longer articles treating a subject in depth.
• Report or discussion paper: in-depth reports to describe knowledge on a particular subject. They can be used as a starting point for discussion.
• Tagcloud: an overview of the most important tags (= keywords), linked to articles or other content items. The words are spread over the page in a ‘cloud’, their size representing the number of items they attach to. It provides you an overview on the content of the website at a single glance.

Giving feedback and participating

The Leonardo ENERGY website is not one-way communication. In various manners, you are invited to participate to give feedback or to add new elements:

• Vote: for most content items, you can assess the quality of the information by giving a 5-star rating (requires registration).
• Comments: most content items also provide the possibility to comment (requires registration). Comments are moderated, but comments are always accepted when they are on-topic, qualified and non-abrasive.
• Join a Community of Practice, such as the energy efficiency reflection group, or the energy technology watch.
• Participating to polls: the Leonardo Energy website regularly organizes polls in which you can give your opinion on one specific subject.
• Participating to web events: web events have a ‘presentation part’ and a ‘discussion part’. In the latter you are invited to ask questions and to participate in the debate.