{"id":1230,"date":"2012-07-30T08:46:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T13:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2022-02-26T12:41:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T17:41:54","slug":"customize-your-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2012\/07\/30\/customize-your-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Lose the Gray Face: Customize Your Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you have a picture on your Community Profile<\/a>? \u00a0If you don’t, customize your Community Profile for a chance to win a MATLAB Central hat and t-shirt.<\/p>\n

While writing about the Cody milestones<\/a> a couple weeks back, I was looking at the Players page<\/a> and thinking it would be great if we could get more community members to personalize their profile and add a picture. This is a great way to connect with other community members and receive recognition for all your contributions on MATLAB Central.<\/p>\n

If you look at Ned\u2019s Trendy plot<\/a>, it shows custom picture trends for MATLAB Central. As you can see, a lot profiles don\u2019t have a picture, which means we have a lot of not-so-fun gray silhouettes on MATLAB Central.<\/p>\n

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When a community member navigates to your contributor\/player page to see all the contributions you’ve made on MATLAB Central, this is the not-so-fun gray silhouette\u00a0they will see.<\/p>\n

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By the way, my profile<\/a> does have a picture, I just didn’t want to pick on anybody specific. And thanks to Alfonso<\/a>, there is one fun gray silhouette!<\/p>\n

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Here are two great examples, take a look at Matt Fig’s\u00a0<\/a> and Nickolas Cheilakos’<\/a> community profile. These community members have nailed it, by including an interesting picture and their interests in their profile.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s easy to customize your profile and add a picture, just navigate to the Community Profile<\/a> page and click Edit My Profile.\u00a0 To make it even easier for you, here’s the shortcut to edit your community profile<\/a>. While you\u2019re there, don\u2019t forget to update your Personal Profile and add your Professional Interests too.<\/p>\n

So this week I challenge you to customize your community profile for a chance to win a MATLAB Central hat and t-shirt. On Monday, August 6, 2012, I\u2019ll randomly pick a winner and send out the prize.<\/p>\n

UPDATE Aug 8, 2012:<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have a winner – Congratulations to Stuart<\/a>! You have a MATLAB Central hat and t-shirt coming your way. Thank you to everyone who updated their Community Profile.<\/p>\n

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Do you have a picture on your Community Profile? \u00a0If you don’t, customize your Community Profile for a chance to win a MATLAB Central hat and t-shirt.
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