I'd like to have the ability as an admin to send out announcements via the private message tool to the entire community population or groups of members.  I realize I can make use of the announcements module, but it'd be much more effective to message the entire community from time to time.

I'm sure some within the Lithosphere will be view this as spamming members.  But I'm just referring to sending instructional messages to take advantage of certain features or to select an avatar or to participate in a brand new forum. 

It seems like this is a rather common feature in other communities and would be a great tool to help engage the member base.

We have identified that allowing users to actively share their own content or that of other members could help grow the community and add value for our members.  Having seen the social bookmarking icons in the Ideas tool, how can we utilize this within all threads, or better yet, all posts? 

I envision this as either part of the signature, i.e., check box "Add Social Bookmarking Bar to my Signature," or embedded in the User sidebar of each post (again, maybe an opt-in feature).   Alternately, if not available on a post level, add the bar automatically to the title-bar area (on right?) of the first post in a thread. This perhaps would be a community-level auto-opt-in setting with an opt-out checkbox for the message composer.

This is about choices on how to share content - both at the community level and the thread/post level.  

My users would like to see a better way to see new idea comments.  On the category page, you see how many ideas there are and how many things are new.  If you read all of the new ideas then you are left with the comments in the new column.  You then go to the Idea exchange itself and the number of new comments per idea are hard to see because they are just a small link below the idea itself.

I have a number of users that basically read every message.  On a forum board, they come back each day and the messages they have not read are at the top of the board and are indicated by a bold thread title.  On the idea exchange there is no equivalent.  One suggestion they had for this problem is a single RSS feed that includes comments to all Ideas but there is probably a better way to do this from the UI.  Perhaps the subject-only view of ideas makes the number of new comments apparent in the UI but I have not seen it yet.

Perhaps there is a good way to do this already and I have not seen it.

We need a feature that allows us to report on the Ideas that have been posted and their number of Kudos.  It should also include the label and status of each idea. 

This will help us make sure that each idea is being followed-up by the appropriate group in our company.  Right now, there is no way to see a list of all of the ideas and export that list for tracking purposes.  We're worried that things will fall through the cracks as we already have 141 ideas posted in just one week.  I have been able to use the advanced message search in conjunction with the "import from web" feature in Excel but the table it exports is very ugly and not that useful and is missing idea status and labels.

I apologize if I submitted something like this before - I tried searching to see if I did but I can't find it.

I just wrote this and it lost it...server timeout, so this is the abbreviated version.

Current Functionality

If an idea has the incorrect label or is missing a label, you can only change it by going "Edit Idea" > Edit/Add Label > Post idea.  This isn't as intuitive or obvious to Ideas facilitators/product management, because they're more focused on commenting on ideas and updating idea statuses.  Plus, if an idea doesn't have the right label on it, then the business owner might not see it, so it's not helping ensure that ideas are getting funneled to the right people in the organization (e.g. think X idea needs X label to be seen by X biz owner).

Requested Functionality

Expand the idea comment/status change functionality to let facilitators/moderators/admins (basically, anyone with that permission) edit or add labels to an idea.  And not have to go into Edit mode.

Business Impact

• Expand Ideas facilitators' role in the discussion.
• Make it easy to get ideas to the right place in the company & in the Ideas app
• Save time
• Reduce click-intensiveness point of moderation

Would it be possible to change the response/comment form on Ideas to be the same as the "New Idea" editor and normal forum editor?  It currently does not provide the same Rich Text Editor options that we're used to (in the "New Idea," "New Post," "Reply Post").  But if you make a post/comment and go back and edit it, it will open it up in the response form that we're used to...with all the Rich Text Editor options, etc.

Having the comment box on all pages of an Idea is causing problems because people do not necessarily read the rest of the comments before posting.  It's resulting in a lot of unnecessary repetition (especially since they also are having trouble finding the next page of comments).

I've noticed that the H1 tags on the blog articles and Ideas post are attached to the names of the blogs rather than the individual articles.

On this post, for example, the H1 tag says "Suggest Your Ideas" rather than "Tailor H1 Tags on Blogs and Ideas". That's the same H1 tag as the board, and all the articles within it.

Since H1 tags are so important for SEO purposes, should the H1 tags on each article matched the title of the article?

Hi there,

I'm working to implement Lithium Ideas & trying to figure out how to configure it to meet our various business requirements...so you can guess why I'm here...I need to do something that's not currently possible.  

Current Functionality:  Create predefined list of labels and let users add their own freeform labels

Requested Functionality:  Drill-down labels...create sub- or secondary level of labels associated with the top-level labels.  The secondary level of labels wouldn't show unless you clicked on the top-level label and then it would display the secondary labels associated with that category.

Use cases:  To use the Lithium product as an example, you could have "forums," "ideas," "blogs," "chat" as the top-level labels (probably would want something like "core" to address functionality that spans the entire product suite) and then have a secondary-level of labels that apply to specific areas of the product.  So secondary level of labels for Ideas could be "statuses," "reporting," "labels", etc.

In my situation, I want to use a single instance of Lithium Ideas for our users and developers, so I'll link to Ideas from two places...in the customer site and in the developer site.  Then I want to be able to drive the developers to developer-specific ideas, so when they click on "ideas", I could direct them to the "developer" (or whatever we would call it) label and they could click on secondary level labels on specific areas of our developer platform and tools.

I'm sure there's a lot in this idea that I'm not thinking about, so let me know what you think!