We've been very busy rolling out upgrades to the CM Organizer and CM Bookfinder over the last few weeks. Here is a brief summary of the recent changes. As always, we're eager to hear your feedback on the new features and other suggestions you may have.
Shared tagging—Now everyone can add tags to any resource, even on resources you didn't enter. Those tags are then visible to everyone. Each tag has a link that shows all of the resources assigned that tag, which is a great way to share groups of resources with each other. Resources can also be found in search by their tags. The CM Organizer home page displays the top 40 most used tags so popular tags should appear there automatically.
We think tags are a great way to describe or group resources by things like subject (e.g., "history"), event (e.g., "Civil War"), part of a curriculum or series (e.g., "Math U See"), or just about anything else. We hope tags will be a great way for our little community to share in making the resources we list easier to find and even more useful.
Public sharing checkbox—There is now a checkbox on resources you add to allow that resource to be shared publicly. We encourage you to start marking resources you've entered as shared even though they won't show up for everyone right now. When we finish the sharing feature then these resources will be available for everyone to use. Of course, resources you don't mark as shared will remain private.
This feature along with tags will be a great way for groups of CM Organizer users to work together to add resources and categorize them. Maybe there's a niche curriculum a few of you use and we haven't entered the needed resources into the Organizer. Now you have a way to collaborate on that work. Feel free to use the forum as a way to coordinate your efforts.
Redesigned search listings and resource details—The design is a little cleaner and clearer, and hopefully easier to find what you want. Tags are now displayed and we switched to more obvious buttons for scheduling, Amazon lookup, etc.
Improved historical settings—Entering and searching on year ranges for historical settings is much improved.
Little Tweaks—We've made a whole bunch of small tweaks and bug fixes that should make using the Organizer and even more pleasant experience.
