My suggestions for the new FreeCharityCars Website

So as we all know Brian announced a short time ago a new Website in the works for FCC and said to send suggestions to them at info@freecharitycars.org.

Well I sent my list of suggestions and wanted to share them all with you and please let me know if you sent your suggestions I would love to hear them.

My suggestions:

1. I think there should be direct hyperlinks that members can just click and be taken right where they need to go to contact people to promote FCC.

2. A generic type letter that people can copy/paste and use as template to make their own of it to send on behalf of FCC. As it seems many have told me they just do not do it because they do not know how to word things or what to say.

3. A script of sorts for members to use when they call dealerships or other people would be an excellent idea to. I think a lot more people would be apt to call if they knew what to say as again some have told me they are not good on the phone either.

4. A Free Charity Cars blog I think would be an amazing way to get out pertinent information to members and allow members to give feedback in an organized fashion which will result in less emails to your Staff as well.

5. A discussion board for members could be very beneficial in giving everyone a place within FCC to post ideas, advice, support and help one another as well as alleviate many emails directly sent to the Staff of FCC for issues that members could address themselves in their own forum.

6. If possible adding a cast vote button to our friends within our friend list so that we could vote for friends without having to open each page to do so would cut down on time it takes to vote and allow more time for promoting! :-)

7. Add a block user button on everyone's profile so that when issues arise and members get their feathers ruffled those members can just click block user themselves on the other's profile page and then that person can not contact them. I think this will stop a lot of the bickering and ugliness and people won't have to deal with it or bother you about it.

8. I think you should institute and inactive member policy so that when a member has not signed in to FCC in a certain amount of time like for 30 days their account is temporarily disabled until they sign in again and give them the option to reactivate once agreeing to the active member TOS, if they have not signed in for a significant amount of time like 6 months their account should be removed. This would allow us to have a clearer idea of exactly how many members are truly ACTIVE members in need on FCC and allow members who are active to have their rightful places in line on the waiting list.

9. I am sure you do not want to allow members to customize their profiles and use html coding or CSS etc, because it may slow down the server. However if you could allow at least sections on our pages where we can have one for our story, one for what we are up to or doing so we can post our personal promotions etc. I think it would make the pages more streamlined and easier to read than the way we have to separate everything with dashes or symbols which makes for some messy and hard to read profiles at times.

10. With the "Blue List" I think this should be overhauled in some way. Perhaps instead of the blue list appearig upon sign in, maybe add an area to our page which says something like Votes Received that we can click on each day and see where are votes came from. That way we know exactly what we are getting votes for. It should contain daily votes, profile view votes, transferred votes, pay it forward votes, Mgive votes, Paypal votes, Video votes etc... I think that would be a great addition and allow us to keep an accurate track of our votes and thank those who have helped us on our way.

11. With deleting friends I think that should be made a little easier. As now when you remove a friend it takes you back to the first page and you have to go find your place and start over. Sometimes it is necessary to clean up a friend list when people are not active and have not signed in for a few weeks or months for that matter and being able to click that x and remove them and stay on the same page and just continue would make it quicker and easier to do.

12. Offer Incentive votes! You could add a section under Earn Votes on our Profiles that says Incentive Votes. I am not sure how it could be done but perhaps you could once a month or so have some sort of contest that awards votes to the winner for whatever you need to get done or want members to do so the one who goes above and beyond or accomplishes the task etc wins the votes. Or you could offer an incentive of votes for supporting the sponsors. Like every so many sponsor ads clicked a day gets so many votes or something like that. It is voting based here and votes are what we all need and want and really what better way to get members motivated and get things accomplished for FCC than by a vote incentive?