Arik's dashboard

We have been using socialcast now for about 2 months. It is serving well for improving our internal information flow by posting all kinds to information snippets and insights. Some of these posts are only relevant for a limited period of time. However, other posts contain valuable knowledge that ought to be preserved. Hence, I would consider it valuable, if a topic could be flagged (or proposed for flagging) as "permanent". Once a post is marked as permanent, a classification of the content should be requested (i.e. where it fits into the table of contents of the current information structure in the data repository) and subsequently be entered in a wiki-like repository, which allows further editing and adding of related/complementary information.

This approach may overcome the hurdle of traditional wiki systems, which initially are empty and thus it takes quite some work to get a wiki started. By allowing simple adding of content from socialcast, multiple starting points are naturally emerging and thus allow easy growing of wiki-like content around it. The only challenge remains in creating a proper structure that the content is entered into so that the data repository can be easily navigated. Categories (as defined for socialcast classifications) as well as tags could form the starting point for the structure. By enabling to add sub-categories, the category-approach could be further refined so that relevant information/topics can be found more easily.

I was on the road for a week. After coming back, I had trouble identifying, which post and comments I had already read. Hence, I suggest labeling both unread posts and comments. One way to reduce clutter could be to collapse already read comments (e.g. only showing name and posting date and "show" link; somewhat like how Digg collapses comments by importance rating) and posts (e.g. only showing first 3 lines).

Instead of the current filter methods, it would be helpful to be able to auto-filter the live stream by category (not only via drop-down, but permanent filter in live stream), team (not only following individuals, but groups of individuals, e.g. the marketing team consisting of 5 users) and content groups (i.e. any formed groups under your new groups feature). The intent is reducing the "clutter" of information that is not relevant to me as an individual, but to focus on the information topics (i.e. categories & content groups) and groups of individuals (i.e. teams) that I select.

In terms of implementation, I would consider it logical as a user to be able "to follow" any of these entities.