Happy New Year!

Team wis.dm hopes everyone had a great holiday season.  In between sips of egg-nog and rousing choruses of "Auld Lang Syne", our team has been busy with a few improvements to wis.dm.  In no particular order...

You'll see a new block on the main question pages that calls out some of the best questions we're finding on wis.dm, as well as helpful tips on using the site.  If you already know these tips, just click "don't show me this again", and we won't!  But for new wis.dm members, this should help get them oriented to the site.  All you veterans know the ropes, but wis.dm can be an intimidating place for first-timers!

Hidden behind the scenes, you'll find the new wis.dm Idea Lab.  Check it out, give us feedback!  There's a link at the very top of the page.  We'll let you all explore...

Finally, we've begun to make some important improvements to searching on wis.dm.  You'll find that our search functionality works more like a real search engine now.  You can search for multiple words, use combination searches with AND/OR, and you should get back more relevant results near the top.  Searching is important on wis.dm now that we're approaching half-a-million questions.  So watch for even more functionality to come in that area.

We hope you enjoy these changes.  As always, I'm sure you'll let us know.  And have a happy healthy 2008, on and off of wis.dm!