Alright, so I’ve made a few changes over the last 48 hours (basically, I hit the easy stuff):

• Creating this blog (hey — what do you think of it?)
• Simplifying the homepage
• Removing the Google Ads

Bigger, more system-related things will take a little longer, since there are some things about our content management system that are fundamentally, um, dysfunctional. My working scheme is to migrate the content over to something like Drupal, so it’s connected to a community of developers that is constantly improving the system. But that will take some time and probably cause some hiccups, so I want to make sure we do it right.

Here are some of the things I’m looking at:

• Non-broken email notifications
• The ability to tag/categorize our writing based on what kind of feedback we want on it (via JulieK)
• Sorting tools that reduce workshop clutter and allow readers to focus on the stuff they care about (via JulieK)
• The option to post writing privately so that only a select group of people can see it (because some publishers won’t accept writing that has already been put out there to the public.)
• A branding and design facelift, including the development of a logo

What are your thoughts on these?

What else are you looking at?