Months after starting down this path, I am happy to announce (as you might have seen) the launch of a refreshed Betterhumans.com. The new site is lighter, less cluttered, more focused and more content-rich, changes aimed at expanding Betterhumans' position as a top destination for learning about and discussing issues and developments in ...

So a few days ago, I was ready to dump Betterhumans. I had planned to give members and visitors two weeks notice and then, if I couldn't find someone to take it over, just shut it down. Drastic, perhaps. After all, I've run the site for nearly five years now. But as I worked myself raw on the new site, I just couldn't stand how much time, energy ...

Hi All, I just wanted to let everyone know, particularly Pace, that we need to change our technology plans for the next version of the site. I looked at the new pricing strategy for Community Server 2007, and no version below the Enterprise Edition now allows an unlimited number of blogs. This is obviously a problem because we have thousands of ...

Hi All (and particularly Pace), With Community Server 2007 likely being released in the next few days, it's time to start thinking about our development of the new site. The steps as I see them are as follows: Complete mockups of unique pages (in progress). Develop Community Server 2007 site theme and skins based on mockups. Test ...

I'm pleased to announce that things have been moving rapidly with the next version of Betterhumans.com. We now have several positions filled and our volunteers are working behind the scenes on planning and development. I am also pleased to announce the addition of several prominent writers to our list of Featured Bloggers. These include: ...

Hi All, I just wanted to post a quick update here to let everyone know that things are moving with the new site and will be picking up momentum over the next few weeks. This is in part because I'm going to shortly be done a part-time masters that I've been working for two years, which will give me some additional time. So here is some good ...

For Betterhumans X, I'd like to see us reorganize the forums to improve usability and participation. I'd like to get feedback on what everyone thinks would work best. Here's a proposal: Discuss Infinite directions Move Literature threads into this forum; having a separate Literature forum hasn't been successful. Improve ...

Thanks Parish, I'd like to throw out some questions to spur some structured discussion about the new site. We can then take responses to these questions and develop a prioritized plan for implementing suggestions and making improvements: Do you like the design? Is there anything different that you'd like to see? What additional editorial ...

Hello to all staff, new and old alike! First off, greetings to all the new volunteers who have stepped up in the past few weeks. We look forward to working with you!Secondly, thanks for all the hard work from our existing staff. We appreciate all you've done, and hope you will continue to help us shape this site into new and exciting ...

Well, that was embarrassing. For the past few weeks, we've been experiencing some quite annoying error messages. I spent hours looking into the problem, and found that the likely culprit was some bad code, some bad processes, some inefficient server settings, and insufficient RAM. Well, I'm happy to announce that the site got an injection of 1 GB ...