Bruce Elgort

Idea Jam Blog Sidebar Plugin
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Here is the first incarnation of the Idea Jam blog sidebar plugin. Simply cut and paste this code into your blog to show the 8 most recent ideas from Idea Jam. You can replace "all" with your name (if you are registered on Idea Jam) to see ideas you posted on Idea Jam. So to see my ideas I would replace "all" with "Bruce Elgort". You can see the plugin in action on my blog by looking in the right sidebar. You can also adjust the inwidth and inheight to size the plugin for your particular needs.



So now we have two ways to add Idea Jammy stuff to your site - the embedded idea plugin and now the sidebar plugin. We will soon place a page on Idea Jam for all users to see how to share the Idea Jam love.

Enjoy and please spread the word. Oh and the Sametime plugin will be available tomorrow :-).



 
Comments

Comment posted by Franco van Vuuren12/04/2007 08:13:57 PM
Homepage: http://www.autumnleaf.it/


Excellent, Bruce! I am going to add it to our blog immediately!


Comment posted by Bruce12/04/2007 08:29:27 PM


Franco,

I see it on your blog. It looks great! Thanks for spreading the word.


Comment posted by Dan Sickles12/04/2007 11:07:19 PM
Homepage: http://dansickles.blogs.com


Bruce, I added it. Not that you'll get much traffic from my blog but it's there and it prompted to me to make my "annual" post


Comment posted by Niklas Waller12/05/2007 06:19:58 AM
Homepage: http://thinkgreat.blogspot.com


Nice!
It's on my blog as well!


Comment posted by Bruce Elgort12/05/2007 06:26:37 AM


@All,

Thank you for placing the widget on your blogs. It looks great and doesn't stand out too much. Let us know how we can make it better by using Idea Jam to post your ideas.


Comment posted by Rob Wills12/05/2007 06:41:12 AM
Homepage: http://www.inter-weavers.com/


Hi Bruce,

Very nice and easy. I just entered my own ideas onto my site as a test and it worked just fine. One useful thing when doing this might be to exclude "closed" ideas? Just a thought.

Keep up the good work!


Comment posted by Bruce12/05/2007 06:44:03 AM


@Rob,

Great idea. We will modify the code to exclude closed ideas. Thanks again.


Comment posted by Vince Schuurman12/05/2007 07:09:32 AM
Homepage: http://blog.vinceschuurman.com


I want one based on Idea Space (i.e. OpenNTF)


Comment posted by Bruce12/05/2007 07:18:00 AM


Only if you say please

Actually let me see what we can do to make one where you can select which Idea Space you want to show.


Comment posted by Stuart McIntyre12/05/2007 08:26:26 AM
Homepage: http://collaborationmatters.com


Bruce/Vince, yes please from here too... It will be really useful if we can select the idea space we want to see ideas from...


Comment posted by Vince Schuurman12/05/2007 09:20:56 AM
Homepage: http://blog.vinceschuurman.com


Pleeeeeeeeeeeease


Comment posted by Slawek Rogulski12/05/2007 11:07:33 AM


When I put in my name to show my ideas after refreshing it changes to showing the last 8 of all ideas.


Comment posted by Slawek Rogulski12/05/2007 11:08:44 AM


Oh and could the withdrawn ideas also not be shown, please?


Comment posted by Alan Lepofsky12/05/2007 01:58:33 PM
Homepage: http://www.alanlepofsky.net


Cool. Added to my site!


Comment posted by Phil Randolph12/05/2007 02:59:57 PM
Homepage: http://philrandolph.com


Widget now added over here! This is awesome...


Comment posted by Mike Smelser12/05/2007 09:17:42 PM
Homepage: http://www.lotus911.com/blogs/smelser.nsf


Bruce,

Added to my site as well, but I have 1 request. The background of my site is dark and the IdeaJam logo doesn't look so hot. Any chance of updating it?

Thanks and great work.


Comment posted by Mike Smelser12/05/2007 09:22:00 PM
Homepage: http://www.lotus911.com/blogs/smelser.nsf


** UPDATE TO MY PREVIOUS COMMENT **
The widget initially loads with a transparent background, but when you click on the "update" link it turns white and then the logo looks fine.


Comment posted by Bruce12/06/2007 06:00:02 AM


hmmmmmmmm..........

Can you set the color of the block on your blog to have a diff background Mike?


Comment posted by 12/06/2007 06:30:57 AM


Mike,

I think I know what the problem is and will see if I can fix it later today. I think my Photoshop skills got the best of me.


Comment posted by Craig Wiseman12/06/2007 09:10:56 AM
Homepage: http://www.wiseman.la/cpw


Very cool!
Two questions:
It only shows the last 8?
and
Is there any way to add the vote & comment counts?

Yes, I'm looking the gift horse in the mouth... 8-)


Comment posted by Ben Langhinrichs12/06/2007 05:56:59 PM
Homepage: http://www.GeniiSoft.com/showcase.nsf/GeniiBlog


Very cool. I added it.


Comment posted by Martin Vereecken12/06/2007 11:57:20 PM
Homepage: http://www.bizzybee.be


Added it (while silently hoping and praying that this idea will be implemented too: http://ideajam.net/IdeaJam/P/ij.nsf/0/88CD64E2AE8521A7862573A90044C9E9?OpenDocument

But thanks for the wonderful job!


Comment posted by Mike Smelser12/08/2007 08:17:46 PM
Homepage: http://www.lotus911.com/blogs/smelser.nsf


Bruce,

Thanks. It looks fantastic now!


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