New Features: Captions and Sort

We’re excited to announce our first batch of new features have arrived! You may have already noticed our updated look and feel. These additional improvements will make Keepstream more personalized and give you more presentation control.

Captions

As a curator, you need the ability to offer your perspective on the content you share! With captions you can do just that – by adding your commentary below the tweet or link. To take advantage, create a new collection – or go into edit mode for an existing one. Now there’s a Caption Button right next to the X!

Insert your commentary, and hit “Add Caption”.

You can always go back and edit it later by clicking the caption button again.

Enjoy great looking commentary on both your site and Keepstream.com!

Sort

Many of you have asked us about sorting your collections by time, and we’re happy to make an elegant solution available to do this. To take advantage, create a new collection – or go into edit mode for an existing one.

By default, there is now an advanced options toolbar on the right. Here is where sorting and deleting the collection live!

Choose a sort option from the dropdown.

“Sort Manually” is the default. You have complete control over where each item goes by dragging and dropping.
“Newest to Top” will always place items with the newest time stamp on top. Are you doing live curation of an event or news topic? This is the option for you!
“Oldest to Top” is best for telling a story or painting a narrative. People will see the oldest content first on top, so they can follow the timeline from beginning to end.

Hit apply to see the changes.

Don’t worry if you screwed up! Hit undo to go back to the way it was.

Hope you enjoy these features as much as we do! If you have any feedback, you can reach us at http://getsatisfaction.com/keepstream

  • http://www.twitter.com/openworld Openworld

    Glad to see Keepstream’s evolving capabilities!

    Can you support multilevel outliner/tree menu headings, so users can create topic lists and then drag in Tweets into subheadings?

    This feature will let users organize large collections of Tweets more readily.

    We’d love to use an outliner-based version of Keepstream for a pilot of web-based “narrative fractals” as, described in this Quora convo:

    http://www.quora.com/What-are-narrative-fractals

    Look forward to hearing!

    Best,

    Mark Frazier
    @openworld and @peerlearning

  • Tim

    Hi Mark! Happy to hear you like our expanded features! We don’t currently support subheadings, but we are toying with ideas for subtopics within collections, and maybe a higher-level management view – where you can just drop tweets or other content into different collections all from one view.

    I’m not very familiar with the idea of narrative fractals, but you’ve intrigued me. I looked at the Quora article and I think I understand a little, but maybe you could give it more clarity. Would you mind shooting me an email on what you envision for a pilot of web narrative fractals? I’m tim (at) keepstream |dot| com. Thanks!

  • http://www.twitter.com/openworld Openworld

    Tim,

    Thx for the reply and interest! The pilot could be a simple one to start – users could start with top level categories (personal, business, and civic interests) for their Keepstream items. Then they would have the ability – hopefully with a single click – to create a project with the following standard subheadings:

    - Attractor (items creating interest in the project)
    - Challenge (tensions/needs driving the project)
    - Opportunity (vision of a resolution)
    - Strategy (steps for moving from challenge->opportunity)
    - Test (issues affecting the strategy’s acceptance)
    - Decision (do, or learn more)

    If Keepstream can come up with a way to autocreate such standard subcategories for each project, individuals and online communities will be able to more rapidly organize and share Tweets, links, etc of value to their initiatives.

    Does this make it clearer? I’ll be happy to continue the thread here or by email as you’ve suggested. Mine is mfrazier [at} openworld {dot] com or Skypename openworld.

    Best,

    Mark
    @openworld

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