How do you encourage users to fill out their profile?

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Published on 2010-03-16T20:19:24Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 20:21 UTC
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Hello,

I wanted to open up the topic to discuss ways to encourage or incentivize users to fill in information in a user profile on a website, such as skills, location, organization, etc. More information in a user profile can give a website an improved capability for its users to search, network, and collaborate.

Without bugging users to fill in their profiles (ie - via annoying e-mail reminders), what other ways have you guys come up with to encourage user input?

Best,

-Matt

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