Smart.fm home page update

Sun 17th May 2009

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I recently had a chance to meet with Russ, Kirk and Dominiek from Cerego to talk about smart.fm. They were all very busy and only had a short time to chat but I came away with lots of ideas. So I sent these ideas to them a few days later.

They liked what I suggested and Russ has written up details of the new user home page and how my ideas were used. That puts a big smile on my face and I hope other community members continue to help by sending in their ideas.

Although the initial launch was a little shaky, smart.fm is now stable and gradually maturing into a great community and set of tools.

Comments (imported from the previous Wordpress site)

Deas said on Sun 2009/05/17 19:18 JST:

Awesome! Nicely done, sir. Retweeted.

Chris Gaunt said on Sun 2009/05/17 19:42 JST:

Thanks!

Alex said on Mon 2009/05/18 00:00 JST:

Great job!

Unfortunately, I've fallen out of love with Smart.fm. But, then again, I think it's a good choice for certain learner-types, and especially good for lower-level students.

I'm experimenting with a new compilation of study methods. (which I talk about every now and then on victorymanual.com)

Chris Gaunt said on Mon 2009/05/18 00:19 JST:

Cheers. I used it for the Kana and it was great, but I've not used it since. I'm going to start putting some vocab lists on there soon and I think the RTK lists might be useful.

Always enjoy reading your articles btw.

rainbowhill said on Mon 2009/05/18 10:46 JST:

I've just started to spend more time on smart.fm, and have just put my first list up. I like how you're able to embed video and text with the list, and think the auto completion for list items is really clever.

Glad to see you back in the swing of things Chris.

Kobukuro said on Mon 2009/05/25 18:17 JST:

Wow, that looks nice!

Jonadab said on Mon 2009/06/15 07:29 JST:

I tried using iKnow, but I found that it was very difficult for me to learn and retain words when I didn't yet know the kanji from which they were constructed. I suspect I will probably give it another go after I've got a few hundred more kanji under my belt.