The LWPS engine (Elgg) was upgraded to release 0.8.1 on 3/16/2008. Below are two important improvements.

1. An optional "visual (WYSIWYG) text editor for your posts and comments" is currently defaulted to "Yes". We recommend that you leave it defaulted to "Yes". You may change it at any time by ...
   
   1. Clicking on your "Account Settings" in the upper right corner.
   2. Go to the bottom of your "Account Settings" and click "No" to invoke the text editor or "Yes" to invoke the WYSIWYG html editor.
   This is a powerful tool for creating and editing your posts, as well as COPYing/PASTEing (parts of) webpages (including hyperlinks) into your posts to customize to your needs.
2. Listing of all users and communities including number of members and number of posts in each. Click on the "Browse" link in the upper right corner under the "Search" box. This is somewhat like a "Site Map".
   

Here are five (5) issues that may require your attention.

1. All icons (your picture) seem to be present. If your icon does not appear, please click on your "Account settings", then "Your site picture". If your picture is there but the "Default" button is not selected, please select it and Save. If your picture is not there, "Upload a new picture" then follow the instructions.
2. If you changed your theme, you need to "mark this post as interesting" so you will be informed when we have found the new themes so you can select one. (More about "Mark as interesting".)
3. If you created posts in the "old" LWPS and used blank lines to create "white space", the blank line was replaced with an html code that causes a new paragraph. You may need to reedit some or all of your posts (using the new WYSIWYG editor) to achieve the look you want. My apologies for this inconvenience.
4. In the previous release, links in posts with or without "www" worked. (Ie.  http://lifeworkps.com...  or http://www.lifeworkps.com... ) In this new release, "www" is required. We will be running a program to make this change in all posts and comments and hopefully your profiles. I'm not sure when that will be done.  Until it is, you must manually insert 'wwww' in order to navigate around LWPS and stay logged on. Everything is back to normal now.
   
5. If you have hyperlinks in your "Brief Description" area in your LWPS Profile, and one or more of those links do not work, you need to edit your LWPS Profile and insert the "www" mentioned above, then SAVE it. Again, my apologies for this inconvenience.

Click this link if you want to report a problem, issue or concern.

"Seeds" added to new members personal blog.

Our LWPS development team has also added a behind-the-scenes function that will significantly enhance a new LWPS members first impression of what is possible in their personal blog. This post describes the three (3) "seeds" that are automatically inserted into a new member's personal blog. If you registered before this upgrade, you will not see these 3 seeds. However, you can easily go to the above link and COPY/PASTE each into your blog after you go to your "Account Settings" and set your visual editor option to "Yes".

Other posts you may want to read.

1. Status of the upgrade
2. I've misplaced my LWPS username and/or password.
3. I want to report a problem, issue, or concern about this upgrade.
4. Please delete my LWPS account.

Welcome to LWPS!

Pete

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Click your browser's BACK/Return arrow to return to the post that brought you here, or return to

• Content of email to all LWPS members about the new release of LWPS.
• Do a search for the tag "upgrade" to find the link back to this post.
  

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Thanks for coming to this post from the Cyber Career Professionals Directory wiki where cyber career professionals are listing their primay and secondary Internet presences as I discussed in this NCDA Career Convergence article. If you want to add yours, click on the link and enter the password of "2007bp29".

Career Development Forums (CF) is located at http://cd-forums.org. I intend for it to be a "knowledge base" for career development facts, data, information, knowledge, wisdom and experiences.

I also created this Career Development Forums community on this LifeWork Planing Servcies (LWPS) blogging platform so LWPS members had a place for more casual conversations about CF.

I brought you here first rather than going directly to my CF profile so that I could be mor ecasual about introducing you to CF.

• Here is a link to my CF profile and recent posts.
  
• Here is ... (I'll add to this later)
  

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Return to the Cyber Career Professionals Directory wiki.

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Reciprocal links betwwen NCDA Forums and LWPS

Click here to view the table that attempts to higlight the differences and values of NCDA Forums and LWPS.
My statements are:

• NCDA Forums is more formal and more structured than LWPS. NCDA Forums is an industry centric knowledge webspace.
  
• LWPS is less formal, less structured and more personal than NF. LWPS is an individual centric personal, professional, and community learning webspace.
  
• I recommend "Please register in both NCDA Forums and LWPS. They are free and available to anyone.".
  

Ed Colozzi proposes has somethign more simple: NF is knowledge-based content information; LWPS is for dialogue.

1. Click here to go to my topic on the NCDA FORUM for about SCG. <--> ** To dialogue with me and others about SCG, please click here to go to my SCG Community.
   
2. 
   

Download this file and copy it to a new post you create in your personal LWPS weblog. Then follow the instructions to determine your skill level.

My "Introductory" post - 0%

1. 0%: I have not sstarted my "Introductory" post. (Instructions)
   
2. 20%-80%: I am working on it.
   
3. 100%: My "Introductory" post is complete.
   

Calculate your average skill level by totalling the per-centage complete in each of the eight (8) sections and dividing by 8 and changing this search-tag to the appropriate average completion per-centage: My NF Skill Level is 40%.

• Click here to go to the LWP Services community to learn how LWPS could help you grow your business.

Welcome to LWPS!
Pete

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• Click here (or the "About LWPS" tab in the upper right - after you have registered) to learn about LWPS's value and purpose.
• Click here (or the "LWPS Help" tab in the upper right - after you have registered) to review lessons to learn about LWPS's powerful features and functions.
• Click here to see past LWPS News posts or click this link to see a reverse chronological listing of all LWPS News posts.
• To get the best experience of LWPS, you should get in the habit of performing this routine during your login sessions on LWPS.

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The National Career Development Guidelines (NCDG) will be integrated into LWPS. Please join the National Career Development Guidelines community if you want to participate or observe this integration.
Click here before you register or the "LWPS Help" button (upper right) after you register to learn about LWPS's value, purpose and powerful features and functions.
Welcome to LWPS
Pete

Tags for links and crosslinks between NCDA Forums , the NCDA website and LWPS

• NF = a link to a NCDA Forums forum, topic or post
  
• xNF = a cross (recipricol) link between a NCDA Forums forum, topic or post and a LWPS post.
  
• NW = a link to a webpage on the NCDA website
  
• xNW = a cross (recipricol) link between a webpage on the NCDA website and a LWPS post.
  

We have just started to develop this LifeWork Planning Services (LWPS) platform and ask for your indulgence.
After you register, please click on the "LWPS Help" button in the upper right corner where we will begin posting information to help you get the most out of LWPS.
Welcome to LWPS
Pete

Welcome to the Career Development (CD) Forums community on the “LifeWork Planning Services” (LWPS) platform.

(The link "NCDA Forums" will be changed to "CD Forums" when the new release is installed.)

This community was created to provide a digital bridge between LWPS and CD Forums.

CD Forums and LWPS, will be a world-renowned nexus for career development knowledge, information and experiences.

Please click on "LWPS Help" in the upper right corner to register and learn about LWPS features and functions.

Table of Contents

1. Please click here to learn about the separation of the two domains of LWPS and CD Forums.
   
2. If you are not sure if you should start your discussion here in LWPS or in CD Forums (CF), then please click here.
   
3. Click the following to go to the ...
   
   
   • main CF webpage
     
   • a "low fi" version of the main webpage with a listing of only the forums
     
   • (topic that describes LWPS)
     
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Blogs vs Forums

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Welcome to LWPS: an Elgg installation.