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Announcing latest version of Aliveworld beta

Aliveworld is pleased to announce the availability of our second beta release at http://www.aliveworld.com/. We've worked hard to listen to your feedback and make Aliveworld the place you need to help you change your future. We believe beta 2 brings you a long step towards that goal. Please remember when you visit to clear your browser cache, otherwise your PC will show you its memory of the old site not what's now there! Instructions on how to do this are at the bottom of this email.

Here are a few of the highlights:

  • New dashboard. Now every member lands on a personalized dashboard when they log in.  It has direct access to what matters most in Aliveworld: your change projects and practices. It also provides you a customized news feed from your friends and communities, so you are always in touch with your friends, supporters and mentors.
  • New change projects. We have completely redesigned the change project pages, reducing them to a single page and focusing them on sharing. All the basic functionality remains, but we have streamlined the ability to share your change project with supporters and use Aliveworld to keep them involved. Supporters can now leave you messages in your change project and Aliveworld can monitor your progress and ask your supporters for help when you need it or for cheers when you deserve it.
  • New change project graphs. Change projects now have status indicators to let you know how you're doing at a glance, just like practices. There's also a new graph that shows your progress though any Aliveguides associated with the change project.
  • Better support for coaches. Aliveworld has been optimized for coaches who may be supporting many people at once. It monitors all your clients at once for you and picks out the ones who most need your help at any time. It balances support between the coach and client's friends so the coach can set the level of involvement they want without sacrificing the support a client needs.
  • Images in change projects and blogs. Now a personal image can be associated with all blog posts and change project items that appears wherever they are displayed. If a picture's worth a thousand words, that will sure cut down on typing!
  • Comment practices. Sometimes you need to write a brief journal entry whenever you practice. We have now added a new practice type that lets you record your thoughts whenever you practice.
  • Use your own calendar. We have added iCal support to our calendar. This means you can use the calendar and task manager you already have to keep track of your Aliveworld appointments and tasks. Outlook 2007, Windows Calendar, Mac iCalendar and Google Calendar are some of the many supported calendar applications.
  • Easy reading fonts. We've made the text larger and darkened the fonts to make the site easier to read. No more fumbling for the reading glasses whenever you visit us!

And much, much more. In total, we've made 387 enhancements on the outside and under the hood since beta 1. We hope you find Aliveword a better place to be, and as always, welcome your feedback. 

Please note: the help files are not yet fully up to date, however you can check the FAQs for updates and feel free to log a support call or email support@aliveworld.com with any issues or queries.

To clear your cache, in Firefox, go to "Clear Private Data" in the Tools menu and empty the cache. In Internet Explorer 7, go to "Delete Browsing History" from the Tools menu and get rid of your temporary internet files.

Thanks for taking this journey with us,

In gratitude,

The Aliveworld Team

Published Aug 20 2008, 08:08 PM by Ivan Sokolov

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About Ivan Sokolov

I have been involved in change management in some form for thirty years, starting out in family counselling and communications skills training. For a while I combined co-Directing (with my wife) the UK's first major parent education charity with training members of the helping professionals in communication skills. I was a founding member of the Community Building in Britain group that introduced the Scott Peck Community Building workshop model to the UK and was one of the first trained facilitators for those events in the UK in the early 90s. I was a partner in two successful organisation change consultancies during the 90s, was an early pioneer at taking spirituality into business management, as well as developing effective use of collaborative development workshop models in organisations large and small. I balanced corporate consulting with consulting to voluntary organisations and community groups, including facilitating large scale processes such as Future Search conferences and Open Space events. I have trained extensively in Client centered counselling and consulting, NLP, Gestalt psychotherapy and various models of group dymanics. I have a MSc in Change Agent Skills and Strategies from the University of Surrey. I have written extensively on various aspects of change, development and communications over the years and been involved in the publication of books and magazines both in print and online. I emigrated to New Zealand in 2000 with my Kiwi wife and 3rd son, leaving behind two grown up sons by my first marriage. I have been involved in Aliveworld since shortly after its inception and have worked full-time at bringing it to fruition for five and a half years.