KnowledgeBoard has now been on its new website platform for a few days. Thank you for all your responses, ideas and suggestions; it is heart-warming to know that we are helping make everyone's lives easier.

The new website functionality is designed to make it easier for everyone to connect with eachother and share ideas across the community and beyond. Staying up to date will be simple and suggesting your ideas for publication is more direct than before.

This is a brief update of our status.

Your feedback

Thank you very much for your feedback so far; I am holding a list of issues which I will present to the technical team on 10 February. I need your feedback; please keep it coming - I cannot find all the issues, so please let me know via the contact form - all your issues will be logged and presented to Sift for fixing. (Thank you in particular to Patrick Murphy from Unisys, who made a particularly useful management suggestion at a particularly relevant moment).

Search engine

We are very happy with our new search engine which has excellent keyword searching, results production and is a big step on from our old one.

http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?

RSS feeds

As well as the main KB RSS feed, you can now subscribe to individual RSS feeds per SIG. It is also now possible to receive updates to the forums module.

http://www.knowledgeboard.com/rss/index.html

New links directory: Suggest a link

Click on 'suggest a link' and the KB content team will review it for publication in the links library

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http://www.knowledgeboard.com/knowledgebank/links/

KB library and uploading a paper as a member

The library holds all of our members' papers and free papers from our journal publishing partners. If you want to suggest a paper of your own (or someone else's with their permission), click 'upload a paper', fill in the form, and the content team will review it for the members' library

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http://www.knowledgeboard.com/knowledgebank/library

Contact KB members from their who's who pages.

The Who's who pages are now open to members only; this is in response to feedback we received last year about members being harassed by sales people who had been reading our boards. Sorry but it is fixed now- we hope it helps.

We have also introduced a new function called 'single-blind messaging'. This means you can update your who's who page to enable others to contact you - without showing your email address.

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http://www.knowledgeboard.com/profile

Stay updated to comments to articles

Another popular request was for members to receive email updates to comments to articles without having to make a comment.We are very happy to be able to offer you this option and thank you for your suggestions.  

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Organisations directory

This directory covers EC projects, KM networks and Event providers.The new organisations directory is much easier to use than our last one, and we have designed the site in order to offer organisational members a deeper link with the KB community in the future. We will be uploading the Corporate Members data from the old site into this directory. If you were a corporate member on the old site and have a query, please email the editor.

If you wish to publish your events on KB, you need to enter your organisation to this directory and apply for events rights (very easy). Information about that is on the events providers walkthrough page.

Forums update

We have introduced entirely new forum technology which has more flexibility than the old forums. At the moment, we are consulting with the SIG editors and will be introducing the new SIG forums in line with their wishes. This will evolve over the next 2-4 weeks. We will also configure the 'KnowledgeBoard' forums next week in order to open up the first discussions therein. Until then, please be patient - we do not want to configure them without a sustainable plan for the future!

Expert answers

The Expert Answers module will be introduced after we have established the forums. It is based on the same technology as the forums but has an rather different conceptual approach and extra functionality. Because of this, we have decided to establish the forums and familiarise everyone with them first. Once that is achieved, we will roll out the Expert answers area.

Links

It has not been possible to directly map all of the old website URLs onto the new website URLs during the recent data migration process. Moving four years of community data has been exceptionally complicated and the technical team's first priority was to make sure that we did not lose any of the articles (and related comments), documents and conversations from our five busy years of life. Thank you to the technical department for that!

Thus, we have not lost any of the pages, but they do have different references. We are keeping a 'master URL' table outlining these, and can assist you with updating your bookmarks within reason.

The first thing for you to do:

Please use the new and *much improved* KB Search Engine in the box just to the right of this text. It is great and if you put in the keywords for your article you are very likely to find it.

If that does not work:

Please email the editor with the URL of the page you cannot find and he will assist you with finding it as soon as possible.