Weekly release notes: July 29, 2009

New and improved this week:

• To keep up with our good friends on the GWT team at Google, we’ve upgraded from GWT 1.5 to 1.7. This will improve the performance of Rypple and give us greater cross-browser support.
• We’ve improved the load time of the non-logged in adviser and public URL response pages. When we say FAST, honest, feedback, we really mean it. This means the people answering your Rypples will have a really snappy experience.
• The types of feedback you can give are now clearer than ever:
  • Freeform: the old Advice box has now become a free-for-all of feedback. It’s completely up to you: say what’s on your mind in whatever format you’d like to use.
  • Like/Improve: the previously-ambiguously-named Feedback tab gives you the structured to tell your advisers what you liked and what you thought needed improvement.
  • Start/Stop/Continue: the ex-Coaching tab, which made a very recent appearance in Rypple gives you three fields to tell your advisers what they should start, stop, and continue doing.

• The Leaderboard is a great tool to help you decide who to ask. Check out who has asked the most questions, and who has been the most helpful in all of Rypple, at your company, and now by your domain. You’ll find the Leaderboard in the sidebar of your Home page.

• If you’re stuck thinking of a question to ask, the Suggested Questions community is the place to be. Search through questions added by other people with the same domain as you, vote the best ones up to the top, and ask any of the questions with a single click. Check out what your teammates are asking!

• Tag your TouchBase objectives with skills. This will help you know what type of questions to ask so you can get the proper feedback to complete your objectives.

Stay tuned for next weeks notes! Same time, same place.