From the website: Opinion Space is a new online social media technology designed to effectively engage diverse communities, solicit and display their viewpoints, and highlight the most insightful suggestions. Opinion Space is designed to help organizations: * Engage their communities * Understand their communities * Solicit input from community members * Understand the distribution of views of their community * Discover insightful ideas and suggestions Opinion Space is designed to help community members: * Engage with other members * Understand their relationships to other members * Consider a diversity of other viewpoints * Express their own ideas Opinion Space is a tool out of the Berkeley Center for New Media at UC Berkeley.