
- a more compact and cleaner design for the Welcome page which now includes: (i) service and general information announcements, (ii)details of  most active communities and (iii) details of new communities, (iii) details of featured/special communities.
- a “tag cloud” for quickly finding content and communities by keyword.
- the MyHome page has been changed from green to blue to ensure consistency with any personalised content pages (My Profile My Blogs, My Alerts, My Messages, My Contacts etc.)
- finding an existing Community of Practice has been made simpler by the addition of an A-Z index and tag cloud to the ‘Communities’ webpage.
- the Help facilities have been improved to ensure users can make the most of all the various features on the website.
- a new on-line process for setting-up communities enabling faster turnaround.
- the addition of ‘themes’ for Forum threads and Library files, enabling a blended approach between taxonomy and tags for organising content
- the Forum section now allows for ‘sticky’ discussion threads, where a topic can be marked to remain at or near the top of the list of topics.
- a facility for closing threads, for example where a discussion must be time-limited.
The best part about the launch is that Policy and Performance is the first “featured community”. Ta!