Cost/Numeric Component for Ideas 

I had a great conversation with a client (actually potential) about extending IdeaScale to provide for a costing model for ideas. As is typical with most businesses - feedback and enhancements are not FREE - everything has a cost associated with it. Currently with IdeaScale we are not focusing on capturing either the cost (or value) of any particular idea.

On internal sites, this can be referenced as "Cost Savings" or "Revenue Generation" - Users (both who are posting ideas) as well as voting on them should be able to quantify the cost savings a particular idea will produce.

In some cases, only the idea author may be able to define the cost/value, and in other cases both idea authors as well as voters can define the cost/value for an idea.

One solution to this issue, is to come up with a Numeric (Enter $ Value) Custom Field on IdeaScale and use this as a model for reporting median values etc.

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*XML Export of Data
*After our launch of the OpenGov initiative for the WhiteHouse, we've been
getting a lot of requests for FULL access to all the data that has been
collected under any particular site. In OpenGov initiatives, it definitely
makes sense. Furthermore we've also been contacted by a couple University of
Washington PHD students on getting access to the entire dataset so some
visualizations and clustering tools can be build upon the existing data.

Our current API Access limits the data to 50 rows - primarily for
performance reasons.

We'll be launching an XML export that is based on RSS 2.0 - and established
standard. We've been looking at ATOM and RSS2.0 - both I think could do the
job - since both of them support cusomized namespaces and extensions - which
will be required to represent all the data collected via. IdeaScale.

Here is a discussion thread on this:
http://ideas.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/21074-3339

*Search
*We plan on making the search box a universal item across all IdeaScale
sites. Currently this is a customizable Tag. We think, the best place to put
the Search is in the Universal Header (On Top above the logos's etc.) -
Thanks to Google, users expect search on any content site.

Furthermore, there has been a very healthy discussion around searching tags,
revised ideas, comments etc. We will be taking a crack at indexing all these
components and allowing for advanced search models to search different data
segments and blocks.

http://ideas.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/21109-3339

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