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Greenvoice Updates

We’ve been very busy at Greenvoice.com, adding more features and improving the whole site in general. I thought I’d tell everyone about some of the new stuff we have added just recently and what we are planning to add in the coming weeks.

Shoutboxes - Now you can leave comments on your friends profiles, its stupidly easy to do as well since the comment form in right there on their profile.

Social bookmarking - At the bottom of every campaign is a selection of links which if clicked will submit that particular campaign to your social bookmarking site of choice.

New friendship model - We have reworked the way that friends and contacts work on the site, now your not forced to become someones friend if they want to follow you, you have a list of friends (people you added) and followers who are people who have added you.

Appeals - To make it easier for people to change the world we have added appeals to the campaigns section, now you can ask people to promise to do something, or mabye not doing something to help your cause giving you an idea of how many people are interested and want to help.

Better discussion areas - conversation is important to us so we put in the time to clean up and improve the forums sections that are part of groups and campaigns making it easier and better to get your ideas out there or discuss an important issue.

Improved all pages - I’ve been working hard to bring the whole site (a good 250 template pages) up to the same level of quality as the main areas of the website and I’m very nearly complete, every page looks and feels better and I’m not stopping there, expect to see the usability of the site improve 10 fold over the coming weeks.

Running considerably faster - We have done a lot of optimization of our production servers recently bring the load time of the homepage down from 3 seconds to 0.3 (for the html) as well as a number of caching improvements, this is one area where we are planning to push rails really hard, we want to have one of the fastest rails sites on the net!

Some of the new features we are currently working on are:

1. Internal messaging
2. Greenvoice Blog
3. and big improvements to the news section

Thanks to all the people who made suggestions or pointed out bugs in the Greenvoice Feedback Competition, I thought it was a bit mean to just pick 10 people everyone who entered is going to get a brand new t-shirt! We are currently printing them up and we’ll be sending them very soon.

If you have not tried it yet why not signup and have a look around and while your there add me as a friend: http://www.greenvoice.com/users/155-andrew_nez and leave me a comment!