Comments on: NetworthIQ Tweets for 2007-10-24 http://blog.networthiq.com/2007/10/24/networthiq-tweets-for-2007-10-24/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:43:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: MrSmith http://blog.networthiq.com/2007/10/24/networthiq-tweets-for-2007-10-24/#comment-18474 MrSmith Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:06:12 +0000 http://blog.networthiq.com/2007/10/24/networthiq-tweets-for-2007-10-24/#comment-18474 *Taglessness: lack of experience of the users. Networth or Personal Finance is ultimately in many users mind. Perhaps tabulating or listing the most common tags visible on the questions page might encourage it's use. *Taglessness2: I vaguely recall there was a link once where I saw a cloud of tags. ...trouble was; there were so many tags which seemed the same it made the choices too cumbersome & confusing. *PageRanks: While PageRanks might be the result of a popularity of a web site, it's ultimately the usefulness/compellingness/accuracy/intuitiveness of the web site which drives it's popularity. ***** random suggestions: 1) maintenance: purge invalid/stale users/accounts that throw off the results 2) highlighting existing features: certain features like the "comparison reports" are really awesome; but it takes a few clicks to find. Comparison Reports to me are the lifeblood/motivation of what drives a new initial user to keep using it. Make it easier to find! 3) improving the frequency of traffic: since the users are naturally attuned to input entries monthly, the avg user enters only monthly. While your use of questions, tips, journals, even drawings to entice users, your web site still has tremendous potential of being a truly analytical tool leveraging the data you have as a way of: 3.1.1) forecasting, 3.1.2) what-if-scenarios, 3.1.3) more detailed level 2 self comparisons & peer comparisons. 3.2.1) surveys: many of your users are already putting many "survey-ish" questions out there, but the current blog format doesn't allow the data to be gathered and summarized, analyzed. 3.2.2) survey results: this should correlate to your "tags" which you seem to like to use; which again you can leverage. 3.2.3) User driven survey/cumulative survey/seasonal financial issues survey...possibilities are endless. 4) Graphics & Charts: I think more people in this world are visual then spreadsheet & tabulated numbers oriented. Not that spreadsheets are wrong, but more graphical of the users data; the more interesting it gets for visual people. ....just think "USA-Today" type info visuals. 4.1) pie charts of asset classes. 4.2) current versus monthly/annual goal charts. (% completion) 4.3) graphical comparisons of month to month of each individual asset category. 4.4) more flavors of badges: pie chart badges, bar chart badges, dots, lines, circles, curves... hope I've thrown out enough ideas out there for you to latch onto or come up with your own. Again, hats off, kudos, digg it, and a big thanks!!! *Taglessness: lack of experience of the users. Networth or Personal Finance is ultimately in many users mind. Perhaps tabulating or listing the most common tags visible on the questions page might encourage it’s use.
*Taglessness2: I vaguely recall there was a link once where I saw a cloud of tags. …trouble was; there were so many tags which seemed the same it made the choices too cumbersome & confusing.
*PageRanks: While PageRanks might be the result of a popularity of a web site, it’s ultimately the usefulness/compellingness/accuracy/intuitiveness of the web site which drives it’s popularity.
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random suggestions:
1) maintenance: purge invalid/stale users/accounts that throw off the results
2) highlighting existing features: certain features like the “comparison reports” are really awesome; but it takes a few clicks to find. Comparison Reports to me are the lifeblood/motivation of what drives a new initial user to keep using it. Make it easier to find!
3) improving the frequency of traffic: since the users are naturally attuned to input entries monthly, the avg user enters only monthly. While your use of questions, tips, journals, even drawings to entice users, your web site still has tremendous potential of being a truly analytical tool leveraging the data you have as a way of:
3.1.1) forecasting,
3.1.2) what-if-scenarios,
3.1.3) more detailed level 2 self comparisons & peer comparisons.
3.2.1) surveys: many of your users are already putting many “survey-ish” questions out there, but the current blog format doesn’t allow the data to be gathered and summarized, analyzed.
3.2.2) survey results: this should correlate to your “tags” which you seem to like to use; which again you can leverage.
3.2.3) User driven survey/cumulative survey/seasonal financial issues survey…possibilities are endless.
4) Graphics & Charts: I think more people in this world are visual then spreadsheet & tabulated numbers oriented. Not that spreadsheets are wrong, but more graphical of the users data; the more interesting it gets for visual people. ….just think “USA-Today” type info visuals.
4.1) pie charts of asset classes.
4.2) current versus monthly/annual goal charts. (% completion)
4.3) graphical comparisons of month to month of each individual asset category.
4.4) more flavors of badges: pie chart badges, bar chart badges, dots, lines, circles, curves…

hope I’ve thrown out enough ideas out there for you to latch onto or come up with your own. Again, hats off, kudos, digg it, and a big thanks!!!

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