Christmas has come early to Recollective. Launched late on Friday 13th Dec, we've rolled out a huge release which introduces interactive word clouds, full text keyword searching and a brand new rich text editor.
Christmas has come early to Recollective. Launched late on Friday 13th Dec, we've rolled out a huge release which introduces interactive word clouds, full text keyword searching and a brand new rich text editor.
In the late September release we introduced the concept of summary views for the stream so you could see a photo and video wall or a dashboard of activity charts in addition to the standard newsfeed of responses and discussions. Interactive word clouds complete the set by representing text-based responses and discussions in a summarized, highly visual format. I have to say, they're pretty special.
Not only does each word cloud provide a visually stunning representation of popular words used by participants anywhere in Recollective, but it acts as a way to explore and analyze that content. Click on any word in the cloud to conduct a search and view all matched responses directly beneath the cloud. Drill down through words to go deeper into the content. You can even filter the cloud based on Activity, Task, Segment or People.
Interactive word clouds can be accessed from the Summary tab, or from the Response view of any activity. Here's the full rundown on the interactive word cloud feature:
Rather than being a simple dump of text data, the Recollective interactive word cloud respects the privacy of content too so it can be visible to participants, giving them even more engaging features to stimulate participant in and enthusiasm for your study.
Here's an example from a built-out study to illustrate just how rich the word cloud can be:
We now index all text responses, discussions and comments to deliver a fabulous full-text keyword search. Just type in any word(s) in the search field at the top of your control panel (or at the top of any existing word cloud) and Recollective will not only provide a list of matching content, but it will build the results into a custom word cloud for you.
Imagine typing in the perfect question that's formatted and written so beautifully you want to cry. Then your computer freezes and when you can finally refresh the page, it's all gone. That nightmare scenario is a thing of the past for Recollective admins. We're really excited to release a new rich-text editor with built-in auto-save functionality. Not only does it auto-save, but it's fully HTML5 compliant. That means it's faster, supports drag-and-drop embedding of media files into your text and you can even paste in a YouTube or Vimeo URL and it will auto-convert into a fully embedded and playable video.
Here's some more details about this great new tool:
We have some great new roadmap features planned for the early part of 2014 which further extend how Recollective can be used to disrupt the MR space. Intrigued? We think you'll be delighted when we finally reveal them! Stay tuned for more information next month. As ever, if you have suggestions for how we can improve or extend Recollective, give us a call or drop me an email. We love getting your feedback and every bit of it is taken into consideration as we prioritize and build out new functionality.