It would also be great if CSX could recommend people for me to "friend", or "frolleague" based on who we have friended in common, our proximity within the organizational hierachy, if we've commented on the same blogs/discussions/documents, contributed in the same communities, downloaded same documents, etc...

Maybe show me a person's pic/avatar, then give me something to click or hover over that lists all the public points where we intersect or connect to one another. Perhaps assign a "connectedness" rating to it as well. For example, I log in, and I see a widget - "Would you like to connect?" - that displays a person I should be connected to, but I'm not. I click something or hover something, and I get a pop-up of all the public data that we have in common. (IBM Research is working on something like this, but it makes sense that this kind of feature should be common in all social software solutions, IMO.)

Ooo, even better: show me people who are statistically "different" than me (opposite of the above paragraph), who perhaps could give me a completely different point of view on something. Research (I'd cite it, but don't have time to find it at the moment) tells us that folks tend to come up with more innovative ideas when they collaborate with people who have different backgrounds, different experiences. These folks are usually in completely different parts of an organization, and are tucked away so far from us that we would never stumble upon them ourselves.

And, just to extend this idea even further, check out Dave Hersh's idea on my blog... very cool!

We are looking at using Clearspace X for ad hoc collaborative projects

You should check out the 2.0 beta, projects are turned off by default for ClearspaceX but you can turn them on and then give your users the ability to create projects.

Cheers,

AJ

I would love to have projects that functioned like this! Projects that are contained within a department are fine that everyone in the space can see them. It so nice and easy to segment departments into spaces based on the pre established groupings in active directory and everything is happy until the topic of cross-department projects AHHH!!!! The permissions model jut becomes too big of a nightmare to think about controlling the show fom the admin slot. I've thought about just making all projects open, you know the whole kumbaya the mre minds the better theory, but for certain projects (and users) this just isn't appropriate. User controlled permissions to the project would be ideal. What I'd really like to be able to do is make a space where any of my users can go in and make a project and have that project be locked down to just them. Then give them a way to invite people to collaborate on that project which gives those people access.

I as well would like to see this level of granularity, even for Spaces/Communities.  Being able to make the Community visible, and requesting to be added would be great for many internal and external use-cases.  Fishing for participants is always a big element from our perspective....awareness is expensive...self-discovery is ideal in every respect. =)

the ability to set a status updates

You should check out 2.0, personalize your homepage and add the status update widget to it.

Cheers,

AJ

hey Steve,

All the documentation for Clearspace 2.0 (which is still beta) is over here:

http://www.jivesoftware.com/builds/docs/clearspace/beta/index.html

I looked at this quickly just now and didn't see anything specifically about projects, what were you looking to do?

Cheers,

AJ

Forgive me for being critical but you guys need a tech pubs writer as a gate keeper

We've got one, his name is Steve (seriously)

I'm pretty sure that when 2.0 comes out we're revving our website at / around the same time, so the website should have some good stuff on what 'projects' are as well.  Thanks for the feedback!

Cheers,

AJ