IdeaJam features

Key features

IdeaJam has all of the features that you will need to conduct effective idea collection and management. Using the IdeaJam Control Panel features can be turned on or off. This allows you to use only the features you need.

Idea collection
Voting and commenting
Search
Idea dashboard
Comment moderation
Follow an IdeaSpace / Theme
Customizable "landing" page
Top innovators leaderboard
See who has voted on an idea
Duplicate idea checker
Suggested tags
Attach documents and images to ideas and comments
IdeaJams can be private and/or public
Graphical statistics and custom reports
Participant profiles/dashboard
See which ideas are "hot" using "What's Hot"
Ideas can be withdrawn at any time by the idea author
Idea linking allows one or more ideas to be linked together
Create an "implementation plan" for each idea
Mark ideas as "favorites"
Easily export data
Web site widgets - IBM Connections, Lotus Notes, Google Gadgets, Sharepoint and Websphere Portal
Tags
Embed any idea on web page
Widgets that allow you to surface IdeaJam content
and much more...

More IdeaJam features

IdeaJam includes many features that make innovation, idea generation and promotion easy and fun:

Statistics and Analytics

View charts of Idea statistics including daily votes by IdeaSpace, number of ideas by IdeaSpace, votes by day, votes by week, ideas comments and votes by IdeaSpace and many more.

Dashboard

View your ideas, comments, suggested ideas and more in the dashboard.

RSS content feeds

IdeaJam provides RSS feeds for IdeaSpace's (themes), a specific idea, a participant or for any tag.

Comment Moderation

IdeaJam has support for comment moderation which allows comments to be edited and/or removed.

Top Innovators

Easily identify who the top innovators in IdeaJam are using a set of weights that can be applied to ideas, comments, votes and votes cast for persons ideas. You can easily customize the innovator bands to your requirements.

Comments

IdeaJam participants can choose to be notified when new comments on their ideas have been posted. They can also modify their comments within 15 minutes after they have been posted.

What's Hot

You can see ideas that are popular in the last day, week or month, each with a single click, administrators can even control the rules for "hotness".

User Profiles

IdeaJam participants can view their ideas, their comments, and the ideas they voted on.

Security

Administrators can configure groups of people who have administrative access to edit ideas in each IdeaSpace / theme. IdeaJams can be private or public. Access is easily controlled using the IdeaJam access conrol list.

IdeaJam API

IdeaJam has a featured-packed JSON/JSONP and web service methods which can be used to extend IdeaJam programatically.

Views

Ideas can be viewed by popularity, recent ideas, most comments, recent comments or others. Each view also has an associated RSS feed. Participapnts can also choose to "follow" an IdeaSpace and receive notifications when new ideas are added.