SezWho announced the release of version 2.0 of the SezWho platform. The new release offers wider reach, allowing users to rate posts as well as comments, and expands its blogging platform support to Google’s Blogger.com (beta), Drupal, and WordPress 2.5. In addition to blogs, SezWho users can now engage in social interactions within SezWho-enabled open source phpBB communities, including bulletin boards and forums.

The SezWho service captures valuable information about the history and expertise of individual contributors, encourages more thoughtful commentary, and cultivates community engagement. Community participants use SezWho to rate each other’s posts and comments by indicating whether the content was useful or not. This rating is added to cumulative rankings, providing an overall score associated with individual profiles and allowing visitors to demonstrate their expertise and knowledge throughout all SezWho-enabled sites.

SezWho 2.0 features enhanced user interface flexibility, allowing users and site owners to personalize the look of their SezWho-powered discussions with full CSS support and customizable templates. A number of pre-packaged options and support for template modifications help community managers and users achieve a look that complements the community. Cross-platform support for avatars lets users import their existing avatars from such services as Gravatar, further reinforcing their social identities and simplifying the creation of SezWho profiles. Identities can also be URL-based, allowing users to build the reputation and credibility of their own websites.

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