posted by John_Boyd

During the past month, we upgraded the site to Ruby on Rails 2.0 to provide a faster, more reliable, and more secure website. We also implemented the following enhancements:

Simplified Invite terminology

There are now only two invite types to choose from:

• Public Invites - These invites are published on the site so that anyone can review and accept. However, you can approve or decline any acceptance received from another user for any reason since it's your meeting. You can also invite friends to your proposed meeting and/or describe the type of people youd like to meet. You control who attends your proposed meeting.
• Private Invites - These invites are only emailed to the contacts or friends you select and are not published on the website. Invite your friends to coffee, lunch, or any proposed meeting.

Important Improvements to your Profile Page

• Display Your Posted Invites. Your posted public invites will now be posted in your profile page and viewable by anyone viewing your profile. If they cannot make one meeting, this will allow them to see your other meetings they may want to accept.
• Export your Public Invites. We added a tool to allow you to easily export your public invites to another site (e.g., your blog, another website, etc.). Our simple "widget-builder" lets you customize what it will look like. You can then copy-and-paste the code into your website or blog.
• List your Meeting Interests. You can now list your Meeting Interests on your Profile page to describe the types of meetings or the types of people you're interested in meeting. Interested in meeting other Michigan alumni? Want to network with others in your industry? Looking for new clients or customers? This will allow other users who have similar interests to know to invite you to their meetings.
• Your New Simple Profile URL. We've simplified the URL for your Profile page to make it easier to share with others. We now allow http://meetingwave.com/p/username as well as the current http://meetingwave.com/member_profiles/show/username.
• Facelift. Finally, we've given your Profile page a facelift and added more flexibility for you. You can now create new profile boxes for additional information you wish to include in your profile and can also organize your profile boxes however you want. Let us know what you think. Don't forget to create your Profile. It helps at either end of the invite! Whether someone is deciding to accept your public invite or deciding whether to approve your invite.

We can now send Reminders and Invite Notifications to your Cellphone.

Just enter your cell phone number into your My Account page and we will send your scheduled reminders and notifications when you're invited to a meeting to your cell phone. The number entered into your My Account page will not be disclosed to others.

Improved Facebook Integration

You can now manage your guest lists, see your invite activity in your news feed and view your Facebook friend's invites! Don't forget to check out our Facebook application at http://apps.facebook.com/meetingwave.

We'd like to thank everyone for their feedback. Watch for our improvements in the future.


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