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Here’s what’s new in Rypple from today’s release.

It’s Aliiiiive! Real time updates in the feed

Customers are using Rypple more and more and it really shows in the feed — almost. Up until today, you had to keep refreshing your page to see the latest feed items appear. Refresh no more! The feed now includes a real time notice about new items at the top:

You’ll also see a little red badge on tabs that you aren’t on when there’s new items there.

Personal reports are the new black

People are digging all the reports we’ve been adding and using them to report on all kinds of things. Today’s release sees a new ‘thing’ you can report on: specific team members! The activity report just got a whole bunch more useful, making it simple to kick out a report on one person’s kudos, actions, insights, and coaching notes.

You’ll find the new report in the same place as the previous activity report — just look for the “Select people” option under the Team Activity report, click over to “Choose”, and then specify one (or more!) people:

Hot dates for everyone

You might also notice the swanky new date picker while you’re in there. Most reports turn out to be of the “this week”, “last week”, “last month”, and “last 3 months” varieties, so we’ve saved you the date-clicker-clicking and made them a fixed set of hot date options. The date ranges are still there for when you need even more fine grained control.

Everyone loves CSV

Last, but certainly not least (and by very popular demand!), reports now include an “Export to CSV file”, which does exactly what the name promises to do.

Give us feedback!

As always, we’d love to hear what you think of the new features. Stop by the comments for this post and share your thoughts! (RSS/Newsletter readers: you’ll need to click through to the full post to do so).

Tags: activty, csv, dates, feed, july 21st, personal, real-time, Release Notes, reports, Rypple, team

Jay has been providing a human side to technology for over ten years, as a technologist, user experience specialist, and visual designer. Jay is the author of The Facebook Cookbook for O’Reilly Media.

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Here’s what’s new in Rypple from last week’s release.

I think we’re being followed

So much great stuff flows through Rypple that it can be tough to pay attention to the things that are most important to you. This week saw the introduction of our “following” feature to help you keep tabs on what you need to see. You can easily follow people and tags by clicking on the new follow buttons you’ll find on profiles and tag pages:

You’ll get an email whenever the followed person receives kudos, commits to action, or shares a question. Following a tag will get you an email whenever items are tagged with it. Here’s an example of what a notification would look like if you were following Tihomir, one of our awesome developers, and David, our Co-CEO (note the unfollow links at the bottom).

You’ve got mail

The more you use Rypple, the more email you get. Fact of life or awesome news in your inbox? We think it’s the latter, and we want to make sure you do too.

We’re redesigning and streamlining all of the emails you get from Rypple to ensure that they’re packed full of useful info and armed with easy ways to comment and become part of the conversation. Now you’ll be able to consistently reply to the email when you want to add your $0.02, or a click a link to visit Rypple on the web and see the full thread. As you can see in the follower notification above, we’ve also made them much simpler and more text-focused so they’re easier to quickly scan and read.

Here’s another example:

Battling multiple email address disorder

Turns out there are lots of you folks who have more than one email address at work. I feel your pain — I’m jgoldman, jay.goldman, and jay so there are a bunch of ways to find me too. Good news for all of you: this week brings email aliases to Rypple! Now you can add new addresses to your account settings and consolidate your various addressed into a single Rypple account (as long as they’re all at the same domain, like rypple.com).

Custom kudos for everyone!

Seems everyone loves their custom kudos. So much, in fact, that we had no end of requests for the ability to make them available to everyone on your domain. Requests granted! Domain admins can now create custom kudos that everyone in their domain can give from their admin dashboard:

Tags: address, custom kudos, domain, email, follow, follower, july 16, notification, person, Release Notes, Rypple, tag

Jay has been providing a human side to technology for over ten years, as a technologist, user experience specialist, and visual designer. Jay is the author of The Facebook Cookbook for O’Reilly Media.

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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!

Tags: june 24, Release Notes, Rypple

Jay has been providing a human side to technology for over ten years, as a technologist, user experience specialist, and visual designer. Jay is the author of The Facebook Cookbook for O’Reilly Media.

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Get your Rypple release notes delivered straight to your inbox! You can now subscribe to our Release Notes email newsletter and you’ll get an automated breakdown of what’s new sent straight to you on Tuesday mornings. Just fill in this handy form:

Email Address:

You can still check back here every week or subscribe to the Release Notes RSS feed.

Tags: email, newsletter, Release Notes, Rypple

Jay has been providing a human side to technology for over ten years, as a technologist, user experience specialist, and visual designer. Jay is the author of The Facebook Cookbook for O’Reilly Media.

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Here’s what’s new in Rypple for the week of June 15th, 2010.

Updates

Sometimes you just want to let people know what you’re working on, how a project’s going, or what kind of sandwich you had for lunch. Good news! The previously-kudos-only box on your company home page has been transformed into a Kudos and Updates box. Now you can post updates right into the company feed for everyone to see (stay tuned for them to appear on worksheets in an upcoming release).

Easier Activity Reports

Our newly launched activity report, which first saw the light of day in last week’s thrilling June 6th Release Notes, has had a very minor face lift. Gone are the zeros that were cluttering up the columns, making it much easier to scan at a glance. On a related note: anyone want to buy a truckload of zeros? Looks like we don’t need them anymore.

Upgrades Galore

A smattering of lovely Upgrade buttons have appeared throughout the app, all wearing the same delightful shade of this season’s hottest color: look-at-me-red. Check them out and click away for a very quick and simple way to upgrade your Rypple account.

Tags: activity reports, plans, pricing, red, Release Notes, Rypple, updates, upgrade buttons

Jay has been providing a human side to technology for over ten years, as a technologist, user experience specialist, and visual designer. Jay is the author of The Facebook Cookbook for O’Reilly Media.

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Here’s what’s new in Rypple for the week of June 6th, 2010.

Usage Reports

Managers and admins often ask us how they can answer the question “how are my people using Rypple?”. Wonder no more! This week brings the Rypple Usage Report that outlines exactly that:

If you manage a team, you’ll find this report for your team on the right side of the Team tab:

If you’re a domain administrator, you’ll find a similar section on the domain tab:

Activity Reports

The second most popular question we get asked: “what happened this week?”. Our highly esteemed Question Answering Dept. is going to have to find a new line of work, because this week also introduces the much anticipated Rypple Activity Report. Managers and and domain administrators can now see a list of activity in a selected week for everyone they coach or administrate:

Action Due Dates

You guys have been all over the actions feature in Rypple, tracking things left, right and center. That’s awesome, but we did hear a few existential murmurings even as the actions got tracked, discussed, and completed. “What good”, they said, “are actions without due dates?” (a.k.a. if a tree falls in the forest…). Good news questioners: actions now have due dates! Due dates appear on your actions page like this:

You can quickly set a due date on a new action as you’re adding it to your worksheet:

You can select a due date for an existing action by clicking the due date label on the action item:

Action Priorities

Up until this week, actions were listed in the reverse order you added them (i.e.: with the newest action at the top). That’s great for remembering when you originally remembered that you needed to do something, but not super useful for prioritizing. You’ll now see a little grabby strip on the left edge of actions, which you can grab and drag to re-prioritize:

Give Us Feedback

We’d love to know what you think of this week’s features. Give us feedback using Rypple.

Tags: actions, activity reports, due date, Feedback, priorities, prioritizing, Release Notes, Rypple, usage reports

Jay has been providing a human side to technology for over ten years, as a technologist, user experience specialist, and visual designer. Jay is the author of The Facebook Cookbook for O’Reilly Media.

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What’s changed? Everything. I’m not joking: we’ve literally changed everything from the homepage, to how you get feedback, to the entire application. Over the past few months we’ve been busy speaking to thousands of people at many different organizations to understand how we can make Rypple better. We learned a ton. The result: Rypple 2.0.

The new Rypple is three tools to turn managers into leaders and employees into high performers.

Rypple Kudos:

You work hard and so does your team. Recognizing and praising your team’s work and dedication is essential for creating and maintaining a motivated and hard working team. Enter Rypple Kudos. Rypple Kudos is a a social way to publicly praise teammates and recognize them for a job well done. They’re fun too. You can award badges and personalize the design of your kudos. Check out Rypple Kudos for more info.

Rypple Insight:

Rypple Insight is the new way to get feedback. We’ve made getting feedback social to help increase collaboration within your team and make team members more effective. Get immediate, anonymous feedback on quick questions. Gather ongoing insights from trusted advisors. Improve! Check out Rypple Insight from more info.

Rypple Coach:

Great leaders coach their people to help them learn, develop, and improve. That’s why we created Rypple Coach. Coach helps managers become leaders and makes it easy to have ongoing and productive 1:1 conversations with your team. Check out Rypple Coach for more info.

Rypple’s New look

We’re very excited to announce these new tools and the new design of Rypple! We think the new design is much cleaner and does a great job of explaining what the new Rypple is all about. Of course we want your feedback, so let us know what you think of Rypple 2.0

Tags: Release Notes, Rypple, Rypple 2.0, Rypple Coaching, Rypple Insight, Rypple Kudos

Community Marketing

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This week brings the ability to followup on a piece of feedback as many times as you want and to filter your feed to show only unanswered feedback requests.

Feedback Followup

What do you do if a piece of feedback is unclear? Maybe you’d like someone to elaborate on their advice? Only one problem: anonymous feedback makes following up a little difficult. Not any more! You can now followup on a piece of feedback as many times as you like: clarify what you didn’t understand, ask for more suggestions, or even just say thank you. Don’t worry! It’s still completely anonymous. Check out the exchange below in which I asked for feedback, received a response, and then followed up for more info. The identity of my adviser is never revealed.

Filter Your Feed

Your feed contains the feedback you’ve received and the questions you’ve asked. When you’re taking a minute to respond to feedback requests, you can filter your feed to only show the unanswered requests. This is a great way to help you respond to all your colleagues requests. Use the Give filter in your feed, then sort by Unanswered to see them bubble to the top.

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

Tags: anonymous, clarify, feed, Feedback, Release Notes, reply, Rypple

Community Marketing

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This week, we simplified the Get Feedback process to one step and added a summary report to TouchBase.

New Get Feedback

Once you add your advisers and write your question, click Ask Now and your question will be sent. We’ve also made it clearer that there are additional actions you can take on your question. Look for the standard Rypple action button (with a ‘gear’ icon):

The top one is for actions related to how you choose to ask your question (as a URL or as widget to embed). The bottom gear is where you add ratings to your question, a personal message, or make it a peer review.

TouchBase Summary Report

One of the (many) problems with the performance review is the need to summarize into standard reports for quarterly or yearly reviews. Who has time to go back through all their notes, emails, and random scraps of paper to recreate twelve months of work? We’ve solved this problem with the TouchBase summary report feature. When performance review time finally rolls around, click View Summary Report and Rypple will summarize all your previous TouchBase work sheets into one report. No more trying to remember the last six months, or gathering all that lose paper you’ve accumulated! TouchBase does it for you.

Tags: execution, Feedback, get feedback, performance review, Release Notes, Rypple, touchbase, vimeo

Community Marketing

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Ever wanted to quickly share a piece of feedback?

Now it’s as easy as sending an email. Giving feedback by email lets you share advice and feedback with anyone, at anytime, from anywhere, all without having to login to Rypple. Just send an email to give@rypple.com and we’ll anonymize your feedback and pass it along.

Community Marketing

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