K20 Online Communities Project Plan

profile display

display all content in mock ups

real time chat

logged in users can leave messages on the profile.  profile owner gets a
e-mail notification.

mulitiple image upload & display

share this profile to a friend (viral marketing opportunity)

ability to crop uploaded images

basic geographic display of people by interest tags and profession.  display organizations by type and connectivity profile (connected to I2, bitrate) 

create/edit

all functionality shown on the mock ups

relate connectivity information to organization.  build relationshiops between organization and connection to I2.

ability for users to invite others to join

associate an image with an organization (to be used for displaying,

privacy settings - user can control who (friends, groups, network, global) sees their email, phone, virtual office hours, and ip address.

content settings - user defines how they want to receive notifications of new content (people, projects, news stories, events) associated with their interests.

static description of the benefits of joining MUSE

collect parent/child organization information (school - district, library - system)

project display

display all content in mock up

upload and crop multiple images

logged in users can leave messages and tag project descriptions

share this project description with a friend (viral marketing opportunity)

project create/edit

all functionality shown on the mock ups

if limited time, add funcationality allowing leaders to add subscribers later on

privacy settings - user can control who (friends, groups, network, global) sees the project description

content owners can tag their project description, personal profile (interest tags), news stories, events

fina a place for users to submit research and reports

system users can tag project descriptions, news stories, events

search results will include an aggregation of people, projects, groups, news, and events. 
regional users should be able to search within their region by default but also expand the
search globally across MUSE 

advanced search functionality - search by one or more of the following:*  PEOPLE

• • organization type
  • occupation
  • text box searching all fields
• Projects
  • status
  • text box searching all fields
  • by region, by group
    

individual logged in users can leave threaded messages on user profiles, project descriptions,

if demand is appearent, implement

logged in users can invite other to join MUSE (see linked in)

all pages can be linkable and bookmarked with human readable urls

all pages have print friendly versions.

logged in user can invite someone to join muse or email content from any page to friends - email text
should encourage them to join muse.

ability to login, edit, delete any account or content item

user behavior stats - logged in (daily, monthly), new accounts, new projects, new news stories,

ability to manually send an email to all or select users in muse, subsribers to groups, or channels, or those with
specific interests -  this will be the mecahnism to announce new features, events of interest, etc.

google analystics, awstats

ability for the system to automatically email (montly to begin?) displaying new content that matches a person's interest tags

integrate existing data display into new site (wrap our new branding
around the data?)

during account creation process, detect and
store information on organization's connectivity
relationship with Internet2 and its connector
ex.  k12 school -> district -> state ed network -> abilene
      public library ->system ->state ed network -> abilene
      community college -> state ed network

This process integrates the existing I2 detective (as an applet
or re-written to work as Flash)     

perhaps re-organize the existing display of the survey data to better
answer users questions