Be Creative! Customize Your Cambridge Who’s Who Connect Profile Page

Now that you have learned how to navigate Cambridge Who’s Who Connect, personalize your page so that other Cambridge Who’s Who members can get a sense of who you are and what you’re all about.

If you are looking at my profile page while reading this blog, you may notice that the color scheme and information are different from your page or the Cambridge Who’s Who Connect homepage. That’s because I’ve customized it with my own theme, including a different layout, choice of colors and additional information. Want to customize your page to display your interests and personality? Let’s get going.

Your Theme – To change your theme select the Theme link under your picture in the left-hand sidebar. This will take you to a new page with 57 templates to choose from. Once you select a theme, you can tweak it to your liking by altering the "Theme Settings" located under the list of options. Once you have made your changes select "Save" or "Apply Cambridge Who’s Who Connect’s Theme" to start over. If you have advanced knowledge of CSS (cascading style sheets), you can use the "Advanced" tab to make changes as well.

Welcome Banner – Your welcome banner is the line along the top of your profile above your photo that says, "My Page." To change this simply scroll over the banner and once it’s highlighted, click on it and you will be able to change the text. My banner currently says, "Hello, Welcome to Michelle’s Connect Page."

Organization – Most of the sections in your profile can be moved around and arranged to your liking. To move a section hover your pointer over the title bar of the section you wish to move. If you are able to move it, your pointer will change to a directional arrow. Then simply click and drag the section to the desired spot. Note: Profile sections can only be moved to certain areas within your page; you will see a symbol indicating you cannot place the section if you are unable to move it to the desired location.

Options – Each section has an edit button in the title bar. When you click on this button you will see the options available to you for that particular section. You can set how many listings to see in Latest Activity, whether or not to view details in My Discussions, which RSS Feed you would like to import, how many posts from your blog you would like displayed at one time, etc.

Cambridge Who’s Who Connect Box – Think of this section as a free text box for you to insert additional information, widgets, advertising, images or anything else that would make your page more interesting and engaging. I currently have a widget that lists the articles being published on all of the Cambridge Who’s Who blogs. You can scroll through the blogs and read the headlines or click on any headline to be taken directly to the blog to read the entire article. Widgets are simple to create and use. Select the "Add a Widget" link when editing this section to learn more!

That’s all there is to it! Have a question about customizing your page? Leave a comment here, send me a message or post your question in the "Using Cambridge Who’s Who Connect" forum. Next up, My Blog: How You Can Use This Feature to Increase Your Presence and Networking Opportunities.