Today we had a meeting about revamping our Project Pages. Here are some of the outcomes from our discussion:

- need to separate the public listing/directory of projects with the collaboration tools and create more incentive for groups to post their projects, so we can more effectively aggregate strong youth-led action projects happening around the world

- we established that there could be 4 types of project page options:
(a) FREE - public listing in project directory - to devleop a very basic template (info page)
(b) FREE - collaboration tools (project blog, wiki, discussion, member listing etc)
(c) $10/month for Custom Header & upgraded storage space for files + livechat
(d) $100/month for custom template + storage space + up to 20 affiliated project pages

- important to develop a series of template design options, possibility of allowing people to move elements of page around in design

- important to link the concept of 'best practices' or sharing lessons learned to be posted with projects/initiatives.

- need to merge functionality of TIGgroups (mailing lists) into projects. we also discussed revamping the TIGgroups functionality. since it is complex and heavy on our servers to manage, our thinking is that we rewrite the code to make the technology more efficient and then only have the mailing list functionality available to for projects/initiatives. We would then transform the current TIGgroups space to be more informal and into an online 'feed/bulliten board' posting of content that would send alerts to people but not actually contain the full contents of the message in the emails. this would ideally drive more traffic to the site and reduce maintenance costs. we currently have 3800 TIGgroup mailing lists.

- increase options of privacy levels so project page administrators can decide which sections are public/private

- change review process of projects to allow public listing/posting prior to approval on admin, but have a mention on the page that it has not yet been reviewed (to improve search results - as it is hard for editors to keep up with approvals on demand)

- Link to Global Issues section from project pages (ability to easily draw in useful links/resources)

- social bookmarking functionality within TIG bookmarks (ability to see who else has bookmarked the content & post comments on the bookmarked content) - ability to see your TIG bookmarks in other social networking spaces

- explore option of Text based live chat for the free version of collaboration space

- how can we more effectively promote collaboration and networking between projects and initiatives? suggestion of recommendations / search/tags visible to project members.

- need for ability to track impact - people can state goals + progress made towards goals (i.e. people reached, people trained etc)

- change project 'category' to project 'issue'

- add ability to relate commitments & petitions to projects and easily promote

- RSS feeds