I’ve started looking around for sidebar widgets for the site. These can be seen on your Site Admin | Presentation | Sidebar Widgets setting.
The most recent is “About Me” – this gives you the opportunity to upload a photo and say a few words about yourself.
Additionally there is now a sidewide RSS feed – at http://blogs.conceptmapping.org/wpmu-feed – if you have an RSS reader you’ll now be able to track goings on for the site without actually visiting it: our postings will be merged into your incoming internet conciousness 
I know the site’s not perfect. I do what I can in what limited time I can spare.
