Thanks to the (much-appreciated) feedback of J.K. from ClappingTrees, I’ve instituted some new features that should make searching for posts and browsing past posts much easier.
The first feature is a new refinement in search, called simply ‘Uncommon Knowledge’ (it can be found at the top of the search results page, beside the other search refinements, which are ‘Knowledge Management’ and ‘Technololgy’). Clicking on this refinement after entering a search term will allow you to search just this site — thereby allowing me to still make my knowledge management and technology search engine available, but also allow you to actually find stuff on this site.
The other features I’ve added are a list of recent posts (thanks again J.K.), as well as a listing of monthly archives, in case you want to browse through past posts that way. We’re up to around a hundred posts here, so these features should make it easier to find things I’ve written about in the past.
One other feature that’s in the works right now is a listing of recent comments in the sidebar. That way you can see what other people are commenting on without having to browse through all the posts. Enjoy the new features — and thanks again to J.K. for the great suggestions. Update: This feature is now up and working in the sidebar and showing the last 5 comments.
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March 19th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Cool additions. I recently went through a major overhaul of my guitar blog and introduced an updated Google search function as well as a Recent Comments section.
The customizable Google search is excellent and I’ve been toying with some ideas on how to expand it beyond its current functionality. I’m surprised that its not better known.
How has your success been with the addition of Recent Comments? Do you find it driving traffic through your site?
March 19th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Thanks Robert. I don’t know that the addition of recent comments has really had too much of an impact on traffic — but I think it provides a good entry point to other people’s comments and helps build a sense of community. While this is a tough thing to measure with actual stats, it’s certainly a soft benefit of adding recents comments to the site.