New profile options

[Evan]

Hello entrepreneurs!

I've discovered a new feature that phpbb3 offers - we can create custom fields in our profiles. If you go to the User Control Panel, then click on Profile you'll see the options at the bottom to add in your favorite business book and favorite entrepreneur. Then on all of your posts your profile settings show up. You can see my answers to the right of this post.

Are there any other categories that we should add as optional fields? What would you like to learn about your fellow members?

[Evan]

Hello everyone - I wanted to drop another reminder about the profile options - you can now add your favorite entrepreneur and favorite business book which I'm glad to see people doing!

Any other suggestions for new fields to add so we can learn more about our fellow community members?

How about favorite business quote?

[Aaron@SmartDraw]

Business quotes wouldn't be a bad idea - what about occupation/business background?

[Kevin Lee]

Hello everyone - I wanted to drop another reminder about the profile options - you can now add your favorite entrepreneur and favorite business book which I'm glad to see people doing!

Any other suggestions for new fields to add so we can learn more about our fellow community members?

How about favorite business quote?

Hi Evan,

To build on Aaron's comments, you could add a field called "Area of Expertise" so that people will know what value a particular member can bring to the table. Another form of "social glue" would be to display a user's interests because people like to do business with and talk to people they like above all else.

[Evan]

Thanks for the suggestions guys - I've now added:

- Favorite Business Quote
- What I Do
- Favorite Hobby

Looking forward to seeing your responses!

[David Castro]

Nice additions!

[Evan]

Thanks David - I've also now put it in the registration page so people can see the fields immediately when they register instead of only when they go to the user control panel.

[Aaron@SmartDraw]

Thanks for the suggestions guys - I've now added:

- Favorite Business Quote
- What I Do
- Favorite Hobby

Looking forward to seeing your responses!

This is awesome - at some point today I'm going to need to modify my profile and add this stuff.

Nice work!

[Kevin Lee]

Thanks for the suggestions guys - I've now added:

- Favorite Business Quote
- What I Do
- Favorite Hobby

Looking forward to seeing your responses!

Hi Evan,

That's great! Do you think it'd be possible turn the keywords listed in the profiles into links like on social networking sites? For instance, if someone's favorite entrepreneur is "Bill Gates", I should be able to click on that name to find a list of all the other forum members who share that same entry.

[Evan]

Hi Kevin - that's a great suggestion! Unfortunately phpbb3 doesn't allow for it yet - all it does is show a text field.