I like to get emails regarding communities I am part of. It adds to the community feel and gives me a little insight into the inner workings of the beast behind the community.  I even went so far as to whitelist the email address, in case you are tracking opening rates - thought it might help.

I would really have liked to see some intros though - new groups and what they are about, new users and their contributions, featured content, popular content etc.

Something that extends the digest a little, kind of introduces you to content outside your subscriptions, prevents you becoming stagnant. I've found that a regular newsletter has been the single biggest contributer to user retention and the spawning of new activity.

Just reread what I wrote, and it doesn't sound positive - it was meant to, I must be having a bad day...

Would you like some "Tangler news" attached to the end of your email digests?

It might be a good way to introduce users to new content. I don't know. I guess you'll know the system better than me. I'm only going on what I'm seeing.

I was thinking it might be nice to know that there were a couple of new groups started recently - I know this already shows up on the home page, but (like most users I assume), I pretty much ignore the front page and either check out the groups dashboard or recent activity menu.

Maybe any posts of real note noticed by the team could be added as points of interest. For example if I wasn't following Marty's Tangle or Tangler Feedback I would not necessarily know that Marty was now writing for the age, or that Tangler was up for votes within the WebWare 100.

I'm just thinking it might be a good chance to get personal with your users. If you throw it at the end, those who want to could just ignore it. I might be old school, but things like that keep me interested and keep me coming back. Beta testers will come back for the content regardless, but it might be an opportunity to step outside the techie audience and capture regular content from the regular joe user.

Enough said. Sounds like I'm soapboxing... Besides the fact that I probably should have put this under Suggestions now that I think about it

Makes a lot of sense to me....

Good points, the reason why I ask is that we had designed the digest so that it could contain some kind of news at the end of it. So it's definitely a possibility.

Might mean that I pay a lot more attention to the digest as well...

If the digest was significantly more than a summary of the stuff I did in the past however long then I might see my way clear to signing up for it 

I want the digest to show me new groups and topics that I am likely interested in. Eg if I am subscribed to the group "Cars" then when someone creates a group like "International Motor Show" then it will tell me about it instead of me having to go trawl through the explore page looking for possible groups I like.

Guess that gets back to earlier posts about creating a directory of groups. Groups at a similar point in the directory could be seen as somehow relevant maybe...?

I want folders I can put my groups into myself.... I wanna get to pick what goes where

Nice! I'm for that...

I second De's suggestion.  I would like to have the option of creating my own folders

Then we'd eventually need to find a way to prevent duplicate folders  

Not folders but Tags.... at  topic level...that can roll up automatically to the group level.... with the capability of seeing just my tags or the folksonomy generated by everyone...please, please, please not a rigid hierarchy of folders...

Tags at the topic level?

Sounds like a lot of work 

@ Dekrazee1... it might possibly be overkill if you consider it easier to start a new topic than post to an existing one that covers the same ground...  (that is,  go with a model of conversation similar to that at a party.... the conversation is over in  a relatively short period and their is little archieval value) .....but I don't think it is overkill and perhaps of great value in some of the areas you are marketing Tangler towards (Software User Group; affinity groups etc) where the thread of a conversation is worthwhile over a considerable period of time...

The debate is always one of work vs the need for recall of course ...while  the two search functions somewhat covers the need where I did not know in advance what I wanted to track, tagging allows one to go back quickly on things that I have more than just passing interest in and want to be able to go back to effiiciently and effectively....

Either way, tagging (to the user) is less work than having to create their own folders, but more importantly  I don't think a fixed hierarchy of folders matches the concept of a Tangle particulary well! (especially if it was "designed in"  by some kind of moderator - group wide or system wide)

ps.... you might want to call Chris Saad on this .... he'll tell you that I'm just looking for control

hahahahaha

I get what you mean....

I was just thinking it'd be easier for me to throw groups into folders than tag em is all

I find tagging a pain at the best of times 

I've tried every filing system that I can think of.... and all have failed for the same reason.... for 'oddball items" I can never remember where I filed the damn thing and give up looking.... {even worse I can procrastinate on filing  because it is too much of a chore and too important a decision on where to file the damn thing to just do it). 

Years ago I read in one of Buckminster Fuller's works that he only used a chronological filing system (he kept all his concept notes, quotes he wanted to remember, ideas, and working drafts etc  in a daily journal and items that could not be fit in there he filed by date and cross referenced in his daily journal)...

I Tried this with a purely manual system and couldn't quite get it to work... but I now use a computer based "schedule-diary system" that effectively lets me do this... because I can put as many tags on anything as I need ... and don't have to remember if I filed something under "p" for politics or "C" for canada or "l" for liberal.... I can tag all three .  I can also use my memory for  where things happened in a timestream for example... I know that article by David Suzuki about The Prime Ministers comment was just after Christmas....and find it and things I was working on or interested in that happened around the same time...

Its starting to change the way I work and play through life... 

hmmmm.... maybe I should give tagging another go

Tagging is certainly the way we're looking at heading, as it provides quite a flexible way of organising stuff. I agree a fixed hierarchy can become quite rigid and may not always line up with how you'd like to categorise something, as there will be cases when you'd like to categorise a group in multiple areas.

Great feedback guys. I think Tagging is it.

Great... I wonder if I should then stop my discrete (I think?) tagging trials that seem to be successful rather than expand use of them for myself... and wait?

hahahaha

Very discrete

for a hint try doing a global search using the term "abricbit"

(You should get 4 hits... 5 tomorrow after your index update process runs)

I was cheating a bit of course but the tag could be anything such as the one in this entry tagging

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Nice one!!

So you see you already have personal tagging... just not something (yet) in the spirit of the Tangle just me pushing the limits as usual...(and of course without a proper mechanism I keep forgetting the tags I've used...)

hahahahaha

Ingenious plan Bric!