What would make Ned.com a better experience and allow you as a community member to get more done? What features have you seen on other sites you like that might work well here? What other new things might you like to see?

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1. Month 2008 Sponsors - nine text links middle top site, all linked to one workspace. text links the grey color of (my groups, my discussions, etc)
2. Syndicate groups capability allowing content to run on other sites, but managed from ned.com so web masters can embed threads/groups into their existing sites
3. Port over o/net certain groups/threads to Ned into existing/new groups thread. Also allow users to pull o/net profile news items into their profiles too. Will need permission from active users that did not "sign" the CCAL to use content at Ned. Users may have to pay a small free to port (or suck) content over to help defray tech dev time for this
4. Fix broken "|" formatting feature
5. To Personal links: add: facebook, kiva, youtube, twitter, amazon wish list, netflix queue rss, linked-in,
6. Standard sized member picture in profile
7. Have/Want listed in profile that also feeds to single page and expires over a 30 day period. Perhaps limited to 1-3 have/wants per user, most recent at the top.
8. Under personal profile add: address, phone, email (as options) (maybe shared with just people a member has given points to)
9. Rotating Ned "tagline" written by members under logo that is then linked to their profile (which is where the line was pulled from to begin with)
10. Make need to join a group to makes workspace changes turned off as default
11. Would be nice to add entire personal profiles to my watch list, so any new messages pop up username/profile additions
12. Twitterish-like feature, ala Facebook..ohh, maybe even goal/action related...today I want to, today I, today's action it...
13. Now that o/net is closed, lets remove vertical green stripe on left of site
14. Would be cool if when a member posts to a group for the first time there is a default turned on that would automatically have them join that group too. This could be turned off under settings, but this feature would help members find their own posts/content again.
15. Dedicated hosting with nightly backup to different DNS/box/location

Other changes...

1. Add to titlebar: ned.com - Ned is an all-volunteer, member-governed, online social network with members collaborating and taking action locally, nationally & globally, in order to make the world a better place.
2. Could or should Who's Online include and XXX/number unregistered guests?
3. The help, my watch list, footprints, groups i own, my other groups, who's online all could have expand/fold collapsible triangle icon
4. Main page index design that allows for 7 content modules that each lead to an inside Ned group/thread, maybe?
5. Perhaps change PM's from Administrative User to read Nedster
6. Make the "join" button for groups have better UI visibility
7. Non-members would be nice if the "Join Now" had a graphic color starburst pop, to be more easily seen
8. Would be pretty cool if mousing over a member user name brought up tags that had been assigned that member, would it?
9. Easy propogation/sharing tools: Stumble It!, Share on Facebook, Digg This!, Save to del.icio.us, • Email this, Technorati Links, see image map on propogation tool at AboutUs http://www.addthis.com/
10. RSS feed of what's new, and people
11. Open the "bug/tracker" tab on all groups

l2. HBAB (hit by a bus) backup plan for Jim & Mark

13. WYSIWYG (aka TinyMCE) workspace editing (anne marie bellavance)
14. Written DOS plan of attack, steps a-z
15. Track RRS feed in nightly User Report

17. Central mass shared calendar Nedsters can add events they are attending
18. See WiserEarth Latest Updates
19. Threaded inbox discussions at Facebook are nice
20. What would Mobile Ned be like?
21. Today's date
22. User driven color palette selection
23. profile percentage done meter, ala linked-in
24. birthdate, but not year in profile
25. Log meter, a tab that shows Monthly/ongoing accumulated time members spend on the site, in days/hours/minutes
26. Have the option to split personal news into private AND public viewing categories. Example - my "Does my bum look big in this photo?" thread stays private (!!!) but my "What is the best mistake you have ever made?" thread can be viewed publicly. (Gayle)

Design

• A workspace with the advisory board information, pictures and such
• Ned Flash tour: finding content, how to use the website

Private group space with: 1. group calendaring 2. project management/task tracker 3. customizable group home page 4. group member usage tracker/reporting tool - rss/exportable data