Tom,
You make some good points. Our old site was organized into Forums, the new site groups areas into Communities. Each individual community has its own list of questions, similar to how the Forums worked. You can see a listing of the communities we currently have at https://community.freescale.com.
We call Activity anything that goes on in the community. That is mostly questions and comments, but it can also be new files, status updates, etc. The "Activity Stream" is the scrolling list of everything that is going on, new people following the space, comments, files, etc.
Following is designed to be a way for people to focus in on specific things of interest. You can follow communities, people and discussions.
The What Matters: Activity space is designed to provide a single space for someone who is active in multiple spaces (like yourself) to go to see everything that is of interest to them. For example if you follow, 8-bit, Other Freescale Solutions and ColdFire all of the activity of all those spaces show up in your "Activity>>Followed Activity" area. In this area you can Preview, Share and Hide without ever leaving the page. Many users are finding this useful.
So a use case for you would be to follow all the communities you are interested in and just look at your Activity page. As things come in you are not interested in, hide them and they will drop from the page, leaving just what you are interested in.
With all of that said, what I think will be the most useful for you is if we can just show visited vs un-visited pages. The helpful solutions above might just be a little over engineered for what you are looking for. I am looking into what it will take to show links you have visited. This is similar to what the previous system did.
Using the "Activity" and "Inbox" areas (in the top menu) can help you with tracking activity of the people, places, and content you choose to follow.
The following are some helpful tutorials:
What Matters: Communications (Inbox) < can mark communications as read/unread here
Tom,
You make some good points. Our old site was organized into Forums, the new site groups areas into Communities. Each individual community has its own list of questions, similar to how the Forums worked. You can see a listing of the communities we currently have at https://community.freescale.com.
We call Activity anything that goes on in the community. That is mostly questions and comments, but it can also be new files, status updates, etc. The "Activity Stream" is the scrolling list of everything that is going on, new people following the space, comments, files, etc.
Following is designed to be a way for people to focus in on specific things of interest. You can follow communities, people and discussions.
The What Matters: Activity space is designed to provide a single space for someone who is active in multiple spaces (like yourself) to go to see everything that is of interest to them. For example if you follow, 8-bit, Other Freescale Solutions and ColdFire all of the activity of all those spaces show up in your "Activity>>Followed Activity" area. In this area you can Preview, Share and Hide without ever leaving the page. Many users are finding this useful.
So a use case for you would be to follow all the communities you are interested in and just look at your Activity page. As things come in you are not interested in, hide them and they will drop from the page, leaving just what you are interested in.
With all of that said, what I think will be the most useful for you is if we can just show visited vs un-visited pages. The helpful solutions above might just be a little over engineered for what you are looking for. I am looking into what it will take to show links you have visited. This is similar to what the previous system did.
