Last night, at the TrustedPlaces offices, we gathered together some TrustedPlaces users to discuss new designs, ideas, the site as it is now, and, most importantly, discussed what you, our valued users, want to see on the site.

We discussed many things, including lists, did you know that you can create your own? We’ve got some great ones on TrustedPlaces: Buraco’s “Englishman in New York“, sue’s “Sunday lunch out of London” and ricoeurian’s “Been there, no T-shirt“. Have you got personalised lists? You can have your own “brick lane curry list”, “camden pubs”, “indie gig venues” , whatever it is you keep an eye on. We also spoke about our widgets, available from your profile in two sizes and two types and our new blog badges, available on place pages in mutliple sizes for bloggers to add to their blog reviews.

It was a great session with a great mix of enthusiastic and informed people and lots of fun. Present were: chrisp, curlynewf, bellaphon, foodbymark, up_shiraz, DanWilkinson, thamshere, walid, sokratis and me, niamheen. Thanks guys for making it a very pleasant and productive evening! Check out their reviews

We’d love to have your ideas too: what do you like? what don’t you like? what’s missing? are there things you like on other social networking sites that you feel are missing here? Email niamh@trustedplaces.com

We retired to a local pub after, Smithy’s, to drink some wine chosen by one of our resident TrustedPlaces wine experts, up_shiraz (also of Bibendum) and some beers and ciders. There are photos, as always, in our TrustedPlaces flickr pool.

So, that’s our thoughts! Thamshere and foodbymark have posted about it on their respective blogs also.

Have you ideas that you’d like to share with us? What do you like about TrustedPlaces? What drives you crazy? Want to get more involved and attend our next user workshop? Email niamh@trustedplaces.com.

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