New public profiles
March 27, 2010 in Announcements
The social networking layer of the university blogs, is now public. This follows a recent email to all staff and students who are using the university blogs, which recommended that you update your profile and choose which information you wish to make public.
It was always our intention to provide a basic public-facing social network for the university community, but until recently, BuddyPress, the software that provides the social networking features for WordPress, didn’t offer granular enough privacy controls.
Now, each member of the community can choose which information they may public, make visible to only the community or make private.
You’ll also notice that your profile page is simply http://blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/username and when you go to that address, you land directly on your profile page. Currently, there are just a few profile fields for you to complete. If you think it would be useful to add more, send a note to @jwinn. Thanks.
