Truely Public Profiles & Lists
My group is in part made up out of members who use the site as a promotion of their business. So it would be great if you could make a toggle in the profile settings where you can make your profile truely public for even anonymous visitors. If you then add a description telling that there are more profiles but those are only available to members then you keep the incentive to become a member.
This would allow members to link their profile page from their own website, generating more traffic. One step further and you could, just like facebook, create a standerd inline form they can copy in their own website.
When tagging of members is done (please, please, please finish this, I need it badly), then you could make truely public lists of members who have set the toggle to truely public. This would for instance allow me to tag certain members and let me make a list based on their city with links to their profiles. Then the community can search the list of cities and see who is active there.
Here is an example of it in Joomla Community Builder:
http://www.nlpkring.nl/content/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=usersList&listid=4&Itemid=27
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Tags are coming!!
We take member privacy very seriously and that is why, even in Public Groupsites, we do not share any member profile info unless you become a member.
Your suggestion of allowing individuals to chose if they wish to be viewed publicly is an interesting twist.
I will throw it around the brainstorming room with the rest of the team and see what we can do.
The only push-back I have is your use of the phrase "just like facebook" - in so many cases, our goal is to be just "just not like facebook". Not a lot of groups that want to make things happen are spending time "poking" each other and having virtual food fights.
Someone once told me that the target market for CollectiveX is all the people who do not have 2 hours a day during work hours to waste on facebook.
Ok, scrap the facebook remark. But thanks for at least considering it. And great news on the tags!