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Feeds are showing up in proper order now

sarahdopp — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:05:32 -0500

And they're working great!

Dopp Juice.
http://www.doppjuice.com

I think the dancing links is fixed, plus I added del.icio.us

Elisa Camahort — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:13:03 -0500

I think the feeds are now showing up in proper order, so thanks!

Also, also occurred to me that I could add my del.icio.us feed, so people could see all the stuff I track all day.

Wow. Really, so cool to be able to send people to this one place to see almost eveyrthing i do online.

Elisa Camahort Page
BlogHer
elisa@blogher.com

You have me beat, vered

Elisa Camahort — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:11:42 -0500

Since I have yet to take the Plurk plunge. Really, aren't twitter and FriendFeed enough? I cannot keep up!

Elisa Camahort Page
BlogHer
elisa@blogher.com

Liz, very cool tricks. Thanks!

Lisa Stone — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:43:15 -0500

Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette

Sarah Jane!

Lisa Stone — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:40:35 -0500

I thought that was you! Welcome friend. Where DO you get your hair done?

Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette

Dancing links?

Denise — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:01:57 -0500

Average Jane discovered this little issue early this morning and we've sent it in to the techs to take a look at. I thought top to bottom was just top to bottom too.

Look for more on this issue soon.

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

same question as Elisa

Skye — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:59:53 -0500

Can I pick the order?

Thanks Denise, but...

Elisa Camahort — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:15:18 -0500

So, I re-ordered my feeds to add in twitter, and now it's showing my blog and twitter feeds in a completely random and not asked for order.

I thought top to bottom was just top to bottom.

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer
elisa@blogher.org

Twitter feed

Denise — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:46:20 -0500

Go to http://www.twitter.com and log in - you should be on your "home page" and there's an RSS feed button at the bottom of the page. Right click the link and save link as.

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

how do I find my Twitter "feed"?

Elisa Camahort — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:28:04 -0500

I see some folks have their twitter feed in their profile. I'm not sure I know what to enter as the feed for that?

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer
elisa@blogher.org

Did you see my profile?

Sarah Jane — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:21:42 -0500

Finally did it -no more anonymous surfin'.

A Great New Profile Layout

Megan Smith — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:21:08 -0500

I love the new profile layout.

I've just finished updating and the feeds work too!

Life is good.

Megan
BlogHer Contributing Editor, TV/YouTube
Megan's Minute
Video Runway

Jennifer, I have a question

Denise — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:20:45 -0500

I grew up in SC... in Charleston. And I had a friend whose name was Jenny Bergey... I don't suppose that's you. She was blonde and your from your photo... could be you... but no, that would be too weird... wouldn't it?

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

But there's a problem

Denise — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:14:19 -0500

I keep clicking into people's profiles and from there clicking into their stuff. And I'm getting far too distracted to get any work done.

Personal problem, right?

I'm glad you're having fun with the profiles - here I go, clicking yours now.

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

Falling in love is fun

Denise — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:12:53 -0500

What else can we do to encourage that love?

:-)

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

New BlogHer Profiles - Create Yours and Click Others'

Denise — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:09:47 -0500

Last night, my insomnia paid off. I was awake to watch the long awaited re-launch of BlogHer profiles and for once, I was glad for the insomnia. The profiles are fantastic. Here's what you'll see if you click on my name or my picture anywhere on BlogHer.com. Denise's Profile.

Here's what you need to do to personalize yours.

1) Log into BlogHer and click "My Account". You'll be on your "account settings" page. If you don't have a photo or avatar uploaded, you need to do that first. (Photos must be at least 160x160 - if you're having trouble uploading your image, open it in a graphics program and change the size so that the smallest dimension is at least 160 - save the image and then upload it again. If you're still having trouble, email denise@blogher.com and tell me what your BlogHer name is - I'll help you.)

2) Click "Public Profile". Every field on this page is optional but anything you include on this page will be visible to the public and could be found via search engine. You'll see two bio fields - they may both be empty or you may have some data in the one labeled "Bio from the Old Site". We were able to save those old bios but they aren't visible to anyone except you. If you want to use this one in your new profile, just copy and paste it into the "Bio" block.

3) Click "My BlogHer Conferences", "Tags" and "Sites" to expand new fields. You'll see that all of the data you had in the old profiles is gone - sorry, we had to start fresh in order to make this beautiful and functional tool. Fill in some of the blanks or all of the blanks - it's up to you to determine what you share about yourself and your online presence.

Some things to notice:

* The "tags" are not clickable - they're simply words or phrases (comma separated) that will help people get to know you and what you blog about. (The next phase will have tags that "do stuff" - don't ask me what they'll do, we haven't gotten that part completely ironed out yet.)

* In the "sites" area you can add the RSS feed for up to 10 of your blogs, sites, profiles, social networking affiliations. Or, you can just add the links. Or, you can add a combo. If you choose RSS for your content, only the title will be pulled in. Readers will have to click the link in order to access your content. (No scraping is happening here.)

* If you save any changes to your profile and you don't see them appear immediately, do a hard refresh of your browser. (Hold CTRL and reload the browser, hold the Apple key and reload the browser, click CTRL F5.) If you still do not see your changes, after doing a hard refresh, send me an email denise@blogher.com and I'll look into the problem.

* There is a "User Data" tab within your account area. This is the original basic profile. It won't be easily accessed via BlogHer but it is not private or hidden from view. Some of us have had our this old profile indexed in Google, so these pages might be found through search. ~~Using BlogHer's site search by user will also return this profile page - though we are hoping to change that very quickly. Those are the only two ways someone can find the "User Data" page.~~ - Updated: site search has been updated so the Public Profile is linked in user search results.

Go have fun with the profiles, I have to quit playing with them and get back to work.