OneEyeDeer v0.5 Released!

OneEyeDeer is up and running for more beta-testing and boy have we made a bunch of changes!

We’ve included a list of all the changes below but, at a high level, the changes have focussed on making the site more engaging for you - the OneEyeDeer community member.

If you haven't already signed up as a beta-tester, jump on the site at www.oneeeydeer.com and register and we'll send you out details on how to participate straight away.

Exciting Times!

OneEyeDeer v0.5 - Release Notes
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LAYOUT AND BROWSER SUPPORT

• Support for 1024x768 added
• Support for ie6 and ie8 added
• Support for Opera 9.x added
• Support for iPhone browser added
  
• Support for zoomed text added

COMMENTS

• Cascading comments added
• Commenting and replies layout improved
• Anonymous commenting disabled

SIDEBAR FUNCTIONALITY

• Top Contributors table added
• Similar Issues functionality added
• Recommended "to-do's" added
• Tag cloud added

MYPAD

• Ability to view other members' MyPad added
  
• Add expertise slidebars as part of profile in MyPad
• Points and Awards system implemented
• Avatar scaling and pixelation issues fixed

SOLUTIONS

• Stage of solution slidebar added to solutions
• Potential of solution slidebar added to solution
• Stage and Potential of solution represented on Issues list
• Explanations for Stage (RIPPA) and Awards added (lightboxes)

INVITE FUNCTIONALITY

• Invite friends to OED functionality added to MyPad
  
• Invite friends to Community functionality added to every community

COMMUNITIES

• Community functionality completely revised - now act as self-contained, mini-sites with content feeding back into main site
• Community-specific navigation (including toolbar) added to communities
• Community logos/avatars added
• Community internal layout changed

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• "To-Do's" added to bring simple Project Management functionality to solutions
• Call for help red button removed
• Take it the next level red button removed
• Call for help process automated through recommended to-do functionality

VOTING AND RANKING ALGORITHM

• Voting buttons redesigned changed. Now more prominent and AJAX-ified
• "Bury" removed. Functionality retained in new down-voting
• Issue Ranking algorithm overhauled including addition of time decay

OTHER

• Vanity URLs added across site
• Discussions removed - functionality retained in comments
• General overhaul of site - tightening up of design and functionality
• Addition of Company name with link to company site in Company Representative user name
• Added password confirmation to Registration
• Issues per page increased from 10 to 15
• Recent Activity pagination added with 100 items per page
• Company page content cleaned up

Sydney Uni Entrepreneurship Students Do Their OneEyeDeer Presentations

Earlier on in the year, Sydney Uni Lecturer Massimo Garbuio and I sat down and spoke about using OneEyeDeer as part of his Global Entrepreneurship and Enterprise course.

As a result, OED was the focus of a group assignment for three separate groups of students.

Those 3 groups selected OED as the subject of their assignment, after seeing presentations from a few different orgs.

I had the pleasure today of hearing the students do their presentations, which were framed as investor pitches. In the audience with me were Massimo and a local VC.

It was great to not only see how the students grasped the concepts behind OED, but also to hear their suggestions for making OED successful.

A big "thank you" to Massimo and all of the groups for spending time on OED. Hopefully you all learned something from the experience and will go on to be avid users of the site ;)

If you do, you may even see some of your suggestions on the site in the near future...