Fostering Collaborative Knowledge … In Private
by lacy - August 12th, 2008
Some quick updates for all you klusterers out there. We added a few small things to private klusters that should help both administrators and users alike to generate and filter out the best of the best ideas.
In no particular order other than that from which they spill out of my brain, they are:
- Project editing ability for admins. Change the name of the project, the description, its criteria, and when it ends. Whenever, to whatever. No more perfect typing necessary on the first try.
- Admins can also remove projects from the list of completed projects if so desired.
- Comment threads for submitted ideas. Think an idea sucks, bam, comment. Love another idea, bam, another comment. Want to riff on a half-baked idea, bam, done.
As always, if you love ‘em or hate ‘em (or us), please let us know.
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Any updates on when the $200 limit will either be moved or lifted for cardholders?
(By the limit being “moved”, I mean raised higher than $200.)
Could you explain what a “private kluster” is versus an ordinary kluster?
Private kluster is what we’ve been calling ‘em internally since we started out with kluster projects that were open to the world when we first launched back in February. Sorry if that was confusing. No difference really. Klusters are klusters and there’s only one type for the time being. And it’s as private as your invite list makes it.
Thanks
Btw can we also have a survey tool and a member count per tier ? that would greatly help
More power to you guys xD
matthew, great ideas. I just assigned tasks to lacy/matt to this effect.
I just want to say thank you for these new features. Now, I can come back and participate in naming again. I think there’s this phenomena that happens when you crowdsource. If you ask the public to participate, they want to participate all the way, even in how the participation you had in mind is organized. me, I think that’s a good thing.
Thanks ben
hopefully by the end of the month I have more than 100 members already xD
One more question. What does one do to get a gift from Kluster. I could sure use some watts?
Great ideas guys!! I have a question though, does anyone else not see the last two completed projects?
@Tiffany - I confirm that the last 2 completed projects are NOT viewable.
I think it takes a while for the programme to analyse the watts when the projects are completed. The results are usually up some time after the projects are completed.
Two things I’m running into in kluster:
1. Though projects are editable, suggestions are not as far as I can tell. It is possible to allow submitters the opportunity (perhaps even a timed window of opportunity) to edit their suggestions?
2. When new criteria are added they don’t extend to already submitted suggestions. In my case, it’s likely that my class will decide on some additional criteria to assess the solutions, but we’d like have them be retroactive.
Otherwise it’s working pretty well so far. I can’t wait to see what happens when I open the kluster to my class.
nice work!
Just stumbled across your blog though a search, pretty informative. I’ll be bookmarking it!