I agree. Giving members privacy control over their profile information encourages them to share more information and add more value to the database. (It's also respectful and polite.)
Preaching to the Choir here. ;)
I've been working on an enhanced profile module -- please use it or build
off of it if it can help you. Currently, it has the following features
in addition to the standard profile module:
We should coordinate on this. Part of my vision is having matching fields between an extended Drupal profile and Deanster. That way when people register for a Drupal Node they can check a box to simultaneously create a Deanster profile. This works both ways: when registering for a Drupal Node, the enhanced registration will ask, "are you a Deanster" and if so it will create a useful default profile from your data there.
Deanster could also act as a (Jabber/Drupal) single-sign-on point for any Drupal Dean Nodes a Deanster also frequents.
I'll post a link to this module on the TalentDatabase page. Please let me know what you think of it.
Excellent. I'll review it further.
cheers -josh
