Please perform the following tasks to get setup on LWPS.

1. Join this community: In the upper right sidebar of this LWPS Development community, you will find the "Profile Owner" box. At the bottom of that box is the link that says "Click here to join this community". Please click on it to join this community.
   
2. Add me as your "friend": Click on this link to my blog, then click on the link at the bottom of my "Profile Owner" box that says "Click here to make this person a friend."
   
3. Create a GAR: I created a Group Access Restriction (GAR) so only you and I can view certain posts. I will add "Only you and I can view this post" on private posts between us. After you make me a friend, create a GAR called something like "Pete only" so you can restrict your private posts to me.
   
4. Set your email option: Click on your "Account Settings" in upper right corner and set your "Email options" to "Yes" so you receive email when comments are added to posts that you "marked as interesting". In the current 0.4 release, you do not get email about comments that someone made to your comments. The new release 0.7 fixes that.
   
5. Create a "TOC" post: In the upper left corner, you will find the link "Your Blog". Click on it anytime you want to go to your personal/professional blog. Please click on it. Under your name, you will see the link "Post an entry". Click on it. Create a post with a title of either "TOC" or "Table of Contents" or whatever you wish, then set the Access Restriction to "Public" and SAVE the post. We will add content to it in a subsequent step.
   
6. Link to "TOC" post: To the far right of the line where you found "Your Blog" find the link "Your Profile". Click on it (or your iconic image in your "Profile Owner" box) anytime you want to go to your personal/professional profile. Please click on it. Click on "Edit your profile", then scrool down a few lines to find the "Brief Description" section. Type in a link to your TOC post. Set the Access Restriction to "Public". Go to the bottom and SAVE your changes. Notice the appearance of a hyperlink in your "Profile Owner" box to your "TOC" post.
   
7. Mailbox: Create a public "Mailbox" post so I and others can add comments to communicate with you. See mine as an example. Add a link to it in your "Brief Description".
   
8. Posts: Create the following posts using the "Pete only" GAR and add a link in your TOC for each. Don't try to finish them. Just add a few items in the first three posts and a paragraph or two in your brief autobiography. Also, copy the post title and paste it into the Keywords section under the body. Also, add your initials to the Keywords section of each post you make.
   1. My values
   2. My interests
   3. My skills
   4. My brief autobiography
      
   5. The value of LWPS to me
      
   6. My concerns about LWPS
      
   7. My thoughts about these two projects: my question and LWPS development.
9. When you have completed these tasks, add a comment to this post to that effect. I will get an email and I'll respond to begin the discussion of how we will approach these two projects: your question and LWPS development.

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To all LWPS members who have created LWPS communities,

Most of us who have created LWPS communities have added text to the "Who Am I" section of the community profiles and that text is prominently displayed when anyone goes to that community profile.

We are testing [1] the new release 0.8 of Elgg and have discovered it significantly changes the way profiles are displayed. I need to ask for your comments in order to decide what course of action to take. I'm not in a hurry about this, particularly with the NCDA conference next week. But I would like to start a dialog sometime around mid-July.

So that you can compare the current with the new version. pick any community profile and display it. Edit the link/URL in your browser and add "dev." in front of "... lifeworkps.com/ ..." so it looks like "... dev.lifeworkps.com/ ... Hit the Enter key to browse that community on the development/test (DEV) platform. Remove the "dev." and you are back to the current/production/live (LIVE) LWPS.

Note on the DEV system that the "Who Am I" section is not displayed.

Note also that your personal profile on the DEV has the option to "Add a widget" that allows you to add/display any section(s) of your profile - including your "Who Am I' section. BUT NOTE that this "Add a widget" function is not available on communities.

1. The simple solution is for me to contract with Diana (our programmer) to add that widget to the community profiles.
   
2. Another is to ask the Elgg developers if they plan to add that widget. (I don't anticipate a prompt response.)
   
3. Possible solution three is to rework all of our profiles so we don't depend upon the "Who Am I" section. We just use the "Brief Description" to offer a link to a post in the community that contains the contents of the community profile.
   
4. What are your thoughts about these "solutions"?
   
5. What other ideas do you have?
   

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[1] I have no date, nor date for a date when the current/live LWPS will be using the new release 0.8 Elgg code.

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