New BlogHer Profiles - Create Yours and Click Others'

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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.

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Great job!

I've fully updated my profile and it's now the most comprehensive listing of my social media world that exists in one place.

For anyone who's having trouble uploading a new photo, follow the instructions above about the hard browser refresh - it seems to be the only way to get it to load properly.

Submitted by Average Jane on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 03:53

Average Jane - that's exactly what we wanted!

You said,

"it's now the most comprehensive listing of my social media world that exists in one place."

And that's exactly what we were envisioning. Exactly. Now if I could just find a few more minutes to add more of my own social media and networking connections.

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

Submitted by Denise on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 04:01

How to put extra photos in profiles

I'm still putting in my blog feeds. I've always been curious what the stream of "all the information I produce on the internet" would look like!

Also, I stuck an extra photo in the "about me" box and am playing around with that.

http://www.blogher.com/haystackprofile/viewprofile/Liz+Henry

So here's how I did that.

- clicked "Edit info" next to the words About Me

Under the "Bio" text input box, I clicked on "disable rich-text" so that I could edit the html

I pasted in the photo code from Flickr

Then I added the HTML tag <br clear="all" /> after the photo so that the text wouldn't wrap around the photo.

Then I clicked "enable rich-text" and resized the photo by clicking it and dragging on its corners.

I'm really curious what other tricks people will come up with to make their profiles super fancy!

-----------------
Liz Henry
lizzard@bookmaniac.net
Badgermama - personal & mommyblog

Submitted by Liz Henry on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 04:09

Liz, very cool tricks. Thanks!

Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette

Submitted by Lisa Stone on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 18:43

Great work you all - these profiles look
great!

Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette

Submitted by Lisa Stone on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 05:05

Did you see my profile?

Finally did it -no more anonymous surfin'.

Submitted by Sarah Jane on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 15:21

Sarah Jane!

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

Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette

Submitted by Lisa Stone on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 18:40

I love these profiles :)

I'm so glad this is an option now. I'm falling in love with Blogher.

Submitted by fairlyordinary on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 08:16

Falling in love is fun

What else can we do to encourage that love?

:-)

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

Submitted by Denise on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 11:12

Jennifer, I have a question

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

Submitted by Denise on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 11:20

Awesome stuff Denise!

I really like this update! Its been fun to personalize this morning. :)

Caroline

http://morningsidemom.wordpress.com/

Submitted by TCMom on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 08:33

But there's a problem

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

Submitted by Denise on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 11:14

Thanks! Say, here's a tech tip

When I first came onto my profile, there were no line-breaks between blogs versus twitter feeds versus YouTube. So I did a "hard refresh" and everything popped into place.

In case you don't know what I mean, here's what you do:

- On a Mac computer: Hold down the Apple key and click on "reload" in your browser window

- On a PC: Hold down the CTRL ky and click on "reload" in your browser wind
Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette

Submitted by Lisa Stone on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 10:39

Is there a way to change my user name?

When I signed up with BlogHer I was posting under a nickname because of my job, but (new job!) I'm trying to switch everything over to my real name now. Is there a way to do this without creating a totally new account?

Thanks, and I love the new profile changes!

www.mybitofearth.net

Submitted by Meryl Carver on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 11:10

Send me an email please

denise@blogher.com

I can help you.

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

Submitted by Denise on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 11:11

Thank you

I too LOVE that I can list the various sites I participate in. Looking at my profile makes me proud: 4 months ago, I had zero online presence. And look at me now!

:-)

Vered DeLeeuw

http://momgrind.com/

Submitted by Vered on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 11:11

Yes, look at you now

Doing great things all over the internet. Awesome.

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

Submitted by Denise on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 11:12

You have me beat, vered

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

Submitted by Elisa Camahort on Fri, 07/04/2008 - 09:11

A Great New Profile Layout

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

Submitted by Megan Smith on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 14:21

how do I find my Twitter "feed"?

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

Submitted by Elisa Camahort on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 15:28

Twitter feed

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

Submitted by Denise on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 15:46

Thanks Denise, but...

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

Submitted by Elisa Camahort on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 16:15

same question as Elisa

Can I pick the order?

Submitted by Skye on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 16:59

Dancing links?

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

Submitted by Denise on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 17:01