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Puzzlement, question, and suggestion (4 posts)

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  • Avatar Image Joel Russ said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    Hi. There used to be a window for writing a little “profile” (personal statement or description) about oneself, for us bloggers here at The Kootenay Network. It went beyond your name and location. I wrote one of thse statements and felt it was a good thing, because I could express my interests – and I felt, in the long run (as The Kootenay Network becomes more popular) maybe I’d connect with people who shared some of my interests.

    I suggested to Chris Shepherd that there be some way we could put “tags” on these profiles, searchable tags. That way, if you were interested in (for example) woodworking, rock climbing, hockey, painting, kayaking, metalworking, or whatever, the tags could be searched and people with similar interests could be identified. And this would be the case even if there were 1000 or more bloggers on the system.

    But now, it seems that even the most basic profile (i.e., profile statement) is gone. And the only fields left are name and location. What happened??

    Okay, my suggested is to do what some of the on-line forum systems have done: allow a profile (‘this is me’) statement. Provide a searchable tag or key-terms function, so people can find one another.

    I realize that, in a way, finding the people with a shared interest is not too difficult now on TKN, because as yet there are not that many bloggers on TKN. But the vision is to grow the system, right?

    Okay, thanks for considering this. And thanks for all the groundwork you’re doing.

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  • Avatar Image Jim Ross said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    Hey Joel,

    I looked and you are right, my description of who I think I am is gone.

    I figure folks who read my blog will get a pretty good idea of who I am anyhow but it is odd this is gone. I know that Rik and server admins have been working through issues with plugins and configuration. Increased traffic generally and particularly since the opening last Friday has tanked the server a few times and I suspect admins are trying to mitigate issues that caused this. It may also be an unintended consequence. Servers are a bit like water-beds. If you put your foot down one place, water rises up in another.

    That would be my best guess Joel.

    As a work around, you could use the About page on your blog to enter this information. If you prefer to keep this page about your blog, you could add a section to that page or create another page on your blog to hold this information. Not the same thing, I realize. From what I have seen with analytics, few look at the About page anyhow and additional pages on your blog will not get viewed unless you direct traffic to them somehow. You can direct traffic with your blog posts or by links on the page.

    I do hear what you are saying about searchable tags. As this place grows daily, finding the content that interests you is becoming more challenging. We are seeing some great new blogs with solid writing and content. Many I would not have found so quickly were it not for the fact that I always check the Activity page first.

    Jim

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  • Avatar Image Joel Russ said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    What you say makes a lot of sense about the technical difficulties of late, Jim. And yeah – read our blogs over a period of time and you’d pick up on who we are (but maybe only who we are re the blog-topic, per se). Still, I believe that a profile statement plus “interest tags” would make the process of locating regional ‘kindred folks’ quicker/easier.

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  • Avatar Image julia said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    Hi Fellas:
    We’ve been doing a lot of upgrades to the system lately which have caused a few bugs to occur. Thanks for pointing our that the profile descriptions are missing Joel, I’ll bring it to the attention of the powers that be. I still think the tag idea is a great one and shall revisit that again too.

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