June 23 Release Notes

Here’s what’s new in this week’s release:

Release Notes by Email

By very popular demand, we’ve created a simple way for you to get these release notes delivered straight to your inbox. Look for a form in the right sidebar of this post — if you’re viewing this from an email or RSS client, you’ll probably need to view this post.

Group Control

You’ve been getting some great usage out of the groups functionality, so we decided to make it a little easier to administer shared groups. The owner of a shared group is now listed in the group to make it easier to track them down when you need people added/removed.

The administrator of each Rypple account can now also edit shared groups, so track him or her down if you can’t find the owner. If you are him or her, then congratulations! You’re now a group editing master. Use your new-found powers for good.

Peer Reviews

We’ve updated the ever popular Peer Review feature to include ratings!

The key lies entirely in the innocent looking “Ask for ratings” checkbox at the bottom left of the form. Check that baby and your review will gain near-instant star-rating power:

One important Peer Review note: unlike regular Insights answers, feedback given in a peer review is never anonymous.

Post by Email

We’re seeing more and more usage of our cool Rypple-by-email features, and this week brings a considerable cleaning up and polishing. You’ll want to add post@rypple.com to your address book because that’s where the magic happens.

Send an email to post@rypple.com and you can easily post an update to your company’s activity feed (remember updates from last week?).

You can assign someone an action by including them on the To: line of the email. Note that you’ll need to be in a coaching relationship with them before you can give them things to do. You can also include more than one person on the To: line and they’ll all get their own copy of the action to complete.

Lastly, you can mix and match the various tags to create a full worksheet for someone:

Assorted Goodies

We end this week’s notes with a grab bag of goodness:

• You can now uncheck a completed action when you’re a little too early with marking it complete
• The number of characters for most responses has been raised to 1,000
• Speed improvements on the coaching page

Tune in next week for another seven days worth of updates!