Add "Latest News" section to dashboard with list of latest blog article titles

[niemyjski]

@jmoeltjen commented on Tue Jul 14 2015

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@niemyjski commented on Wed Jan 20 2016

@jmoeltjen do you think a link to the blog would be enough or having an actual view with the feed?

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@jmoeltjen commented on Thu Jan 21 2016

@niemyjski I would do a truncated list of the three most recent posts from the feed, or just a twitter feed, which will also have it and promote people to follow on twitter and click through to the site. Should be some pretty quick & easy code snippets out there to steal if you don't want to write your own.

[natehitze]

What about something like this?

The news section would rotate between the 3-5 most recent blog post titles. Probably could also pull in tweets to the rotation as well. I'm thinking the filter, when focused, will cause the news section to disappear, so the filter input can take up the whole width of the nav.

[ejsmith]

If we do this, I'd want to just do an alert icon on the right and have it show a drop down list of news items. Maybe even a badge with unread count if we want to track that on a per user level.

[natehitze]

How about something like this?

[ejsmith]

Yeah, that looks good!