How do you browse the networking to find others?
Get connected - Networking on libcom.org
Hi gwen, yeah we're working on that, it will be sorted at some point in the next couple of months.
in the mean time, looking for specific things you can click your own entries and change the text in the address bar to find others.
For example when clicking your employment sector it takes you to:
http://libcom.org/profile/profile_sector/health+and+medicine
to find people working in retail and food go to:
http://libcom.org/profile/profile_sector/retail+and+food
It's not perfect, but will be improved soon...
This has now been improved with the upgrade, with more information on how to accurately fill in your profile to maximise networking potential. It also contains a new field in the networking and politics section - what's your favourite page on libcom.org.
Don't forget in your "about me" section you can enter whatever you want, including HTML and BBcode.
Get connected - Networking on libcom.org
Many of our users will have noticed the growing number of new features on libcom version 4. Some of these are to help radical workers, such as yourselves, to get in contact with other people in a similar position.
So far we have networking based on:
- Region/continent
- country
- city
- employment sector
- occupation
- union membership
- political group membership
- former political group membership (comrades re-united)
- political labelling
- similar tastes
Obviously, the more people that use these functions the better they are for everyone. So if you have a couple of minutes, why not click "my profile" towards the top-left of your screen and fill in the fields? These ones are all in Networking and politics.
For the networking to work properly you must enter the information as it is requested in the small text under the fields. For example for unions use the most common acronym, e.g. TGWU, and for political groups use the full name, e.g. Anarchist Federation.
Any problems, questions, suggestions, ask us on this thread.