Community Features: Profiles

Members maintain their own profiles in an Awareness community. Awareness profiles are both custom and dynamic.

Custom

The definition of a profile is customized to meet the specific needs of each community. For example:

• A community for employees might contain profile attributes such as name, title, key responsibilities, work background, manager's name, etc.
• A community for cancer patients might contain profile attributes such as name, type of cancer, method of treatment, stage, etc.
• A community for travelers might contain profile attributes such as name, location, date of last trip, preferred type of vacation, travel frequency, etc.

Dynamic

Community administrators can add profile attributes over time as the needs of the community change. They can also decide if the new attributes are required or optional.

Members also have the option of deciding if their profile attributes are public or private. For example, you may want to ask members for their birth date or location, but some members might not want that information displayed.