A New Year, A New Design & Structure In Community!

@Dan Stevens​, I love that I can always count on you to keep me honest. Here's my answers to your requests and suggestions:

• Ideas -- We are adding Ideas as a drop down menu item under Discussions on the top nav. Due to Jive restrictions, I can't add it directly to the top nav menu. It will link to the Ideas page with which you're familiar.
• Employee blogs -- Yes, my job is now to encourage more of my peers to create new blogs!
• The Marketo Whisper blog will show up under Marketing Nation blogs. It was missed and is being fixed as we speak.
• Discussions -- We are fixing the link so you will see the Categories and action items, including Create a Discussion, along the left rail. I do need to clean up the Categories a bit. And, of course, you can always create a discussion using the pencil icon.

I think that covers everything for now.

Thanks, as always, for your feedback, Dan.

Janet

@Sanford Whiteman​, all your blogs should be published now thanks to @Justin Cooperman​!

Thanks, @Darrell Alfonso​!

@Sanford Whiteman​, yes, when we merged the Marketing discussions with Product discussions, Jive treats the merged discussions as "new." Nothing we can do about it but it should sort itself over time as these old discussions drop down without continued conversations. We're working on your draft blogs. It was because of the merge as well.

Thanks for your patience.

Janet

Here's another potential bug: The "Discussions" area is where I mainly live when I'm in the Community.  But I no longer see a "start a discussion" link that used to appear in the left column.  Am I missing something?

The same holds true for any discussion type - like IDEAS:

Now I know why I "failed" the usability session I had with Janet and team ;-)

I think everyone has a sigh of relief now that all discussions are contained in a central "Discussions" area - no more "you should move this from "Marketing" to "Product".  Although, I hope the date issue that exists can be fixed.

I'm sure the team will monitor/fix many of the early issues - especially since this has only been live for less than a day.  Below are some initial perceptions:

I participated in the pre-launch of this and one of my main suggestions was to give greater visibility to IDEAS.  As you can see, it's now under "Discussions", represented by a lightbulb icon.  Given that Ideas submitted by Marketo's customer base is what drives product innovation, is there a reason why it couldn't be added as a primary navigation item?  Also, I really miss the prior default page layout/format for Ideas:

Now it looks like this (sorted by top ideas):

Now that "Employee Blogs" have been surfaced to one of the top blog sections, is the idea that Marketo employees will be blogging on a more regular basis?

Today, when accessing this section, the most recent blog posts are from Jamie Lewis in October 2016:

BTW, how does one navigate/search for the Whisperer blog?  I just came across this as @Janet Dulsky​'s post appeared on one of the main pages.  When searching for various blogs, there are no results (Activity, Content, People and Sub-spaces all look like this):

I noticed this as well. All recent discussions are now buried within hundreds of migrated posts (some, several years old). Is there no way to change the date to the last post/reply?

Great job on this @Janet Dulsky​ and team!

So, some problems...

Tons of posts were updated as if they were touched today, even though they haven't had any replies for years:

Previously published blog posts were returned to Drafts:

@Chelsea Kiko​, thank you. And, thanks for joining yesterday. Have a great weekend.