2. Profile Elements
Along with the member's profile data, all of the member's content like
photos, blog entries, comments, groups, friends, statistics, and other items
can be displayed here.
This page is often used as a point of contact between members, so various
options are available such as "Send Message", "Add Friend", "Block
member", and so forth.
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3. Customizable Profile Fields
Information that your members will
provide about themselves will define
your online community.
Therefore, you should create profile
fields that make members provide
information that is relevant to your
social network's unique theme.
If you are building an online
community for businesspeople, you
might create fields like "Position",
"Education", etc.
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4. Multiple Choice Fields
You create a pull-down box or radio button
profile field, you can give it one or more
dependent profile fields.
Your pull-down box profile field is named
"Marital Status", it might have possible
values such as "Single" and "Married".
By creating a dependent field named "To"
for the "Married" value, members that
select "Married" can specify who they are
married to.
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5. Field validation
If the data provided by the
member does not match this
expression, you can choose to
display an error message of
your choice.
This ensures that members are
inputting their profile data in
the exact format you want.
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6. Keyword Links
If enabled, some
profile fields will be
"linked, separated by
commas."
This means that
whatever data the
member provides in
these fields will be
separated by commas
and linked to browse
pages.
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7. Birthday Fields
Date fields on your members'
profiles can be set to
"birthday mode".
You could use this to notify
members of upcoming
birthdays and send greetings.
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8. Personal Photos (avatars)
If allowed, members can easily upload a
photo of themselves, which is automatically
sized down and used as their personal
photo (also known as an avatar).
This is displayed on their profile, in search
results, when they send a message, and on
many other areas of your social network.
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9. Profile Privacy
If allowed, members can select
from several privacy levels when
managing their profile.
This limits who can view and write
comments on their profile.
You, the admin, can decide what
privacy options are available to
your members.
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10. Comments
This is an excellent way to encourage
members interaction.
If an inappropriate or unwanted content is
posted, the receiving member can delete it
from his or her profile.
Members also have the ability to choose
who can post comments on their profile
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11. Custom CSS Styles
If allowed,
members can
insert their own
custom CSS styles
to give their
profiles a more
personalized
appearance.
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13. Subnetworks
Your online community software has the ability to organize
members into "subnetworks" or groups based on profile
information they have in common with each other.
You can use this to limit access and privacy between
subnetworks, display subnetwork-specific content in your
templates, or to simply organize your members.
This allows you to serve them information or ads that are
specifically relevant to their interests or personal
characteristics.
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14. Several Friendship Structures
You can select from four distinct friendship
structures:
1) Nobody can invite anyone to become
friends,
2) Anybody can invite anyone to become
friends,
3) Only people within the same subnetwork
can become friends, and
4) Members can only invite their friends'
friends (second-level friends) to become
their friends.
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15. One-Way or Two-Way Friendships
You can decide if members have one-way or two-way friendships.
Example:
Member A adds Member B to his friend list.
With a one-way friendship framework,
Member B is Member A's friend, but Member A is not member
B's friend. With a two-way friendship framework,
Member B is Member A's friend and Member A is Member B's
friend.
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16. Verified or Unverified Friendships
You can choose whether or not members will have to confirm
friendship requests.
Example:
Member A requests to become friends with Member B.
With a verified friendships framework, the two members will
not become friends until Member B confirms the friendship.
With an unverified friendship framework, the two members will
become friends immediately.
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17. Friendship Types
You can create a list of friendship types for members to pick
when describing their relationships with their friends.
Example: Your friendship type list may be something like "Coworker", "Significant Other", "Acquaintance", "Close Friend",
"Family", and so forth.
Members can pick from these when they add new friends or
edit the details of their relationships with their friends.
If you wish, you can also allow users to enter in their own
friendship type instead of picking from your list.
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18. Friendship explanations
You can allow
users to type in
a detailed
explanation of
their
relationships
with each of
their friends.
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19. Public/Private Sections
As the admin of the
online community
software, you can
easily make portions
of the social network
available to the
public or registered
users only.
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20. Custom Privacy Levels
You can decide
what privacy
levels members
of your online
community can
choose from
when they decide
who can view (or
post comments
on) their profiles,
blogs, groups,
albums, and so
forth.
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21. Sign-up by Admin Invitation
You can choose to allow members to signup only
if you have invited them. This is an effective way
to build a small, exclusive online community.
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22. Sign-up by Members Invitation
You can choose to allow
members to signup only if they
have been invited by an
existing member or an admin.
You can even give each
member a limited number of
invitations to send out.
By limiting signups in this way,
invitations can become
"valuable," which is a known
method of achieving viral
growth.
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23. Customizable Sign-up Process
You can decide what will take place during the new
member signup process.
You decide what fields they must fill out, whether they
are asked to upload a photo, whether they are prompted
to invite other people.
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24. Email Notifications
Your online community software sends email
notifications or messages to your members when they
signup,
Receive friend requests,
Request their lost password,
Some online community software providers give full
customization - you can easily replace the default
messages with your own.
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