As you’ll already know if you attended our Ideas Bazaar, we’ve entered Phase 2 of the Open Ventures Challenge. This is when we hope you, the Open Ventures community, will take some of the great ideas you’ve posted and start making them a reality.
That’s an ambitious goal. You’ll need to team up, to find people with all the skills a successful venture needs. You’ll need to work closely together and coordinate your efforts.
That’s why, on Monday, we released the new version of the OVC website, with some new features that we think will really help with this phase of the Challenge.
- Avatars! You can upload a photo of yourself, to help people put a face to your name.
- Create ventures and invite people to join your team.
- Share resources such as documents and bookmarks within a team.
- A team action list so you can keep track of your venture’s progress.
- More information on the home page about how the Challenge works and where we’re going from here, including face-to-face events we’re planning.
We’ve also made sure the site works much better for anyone unlucky enough to have to use Internet Explorer 6 as their browser. If you can, though, please do upgrade to a modern browser, as there are some features we just can’t support for IE6.
We’re still working hard to bring you even more features and make the site even easier to use. I’m going to provide fairly regular announcements on this blog when we add new stuff.
As ever, if you have any comments or suggestions we’d love to hear them!
