User Profile

Social Squared provides two modes for configuring user profiles:

• Social Squared can maintain User Profiles for users who do not have Microsoft® SharePoint® My Site functionality, either because your organization is using Microsoft® SharePoint® Foundation or your organization has not made My Sites available for all users. SharePoint® My Site functionality is part of the User Profile service in SharePoint Server.
  
  
• Social Squared can work with your SharePoint® User Profile service, allowing users to manage their User Profile signatures, About me and User Profile picture through their My Site. In addition, Social Squared can be configured to integrate Social Squared posts with the SharePoint® newsfeeds.
  

A summary of the User’s Profile is displayed within the Social Squared Forums Web Part, when a forum or a topic is displayed, and the user has contributed to topics within the forum. The user’s name is a link to either the their SharePoint® My Site About Me page or the Social Squared User Profile page, depending on how the Social Squared administrator has configured Profile Settings.

The Social Squared User Profile page, contains information about the user, such as, their name, photo, email address, a count of the posts they have created and signature. The User Profile page also allows you to follow the user.

Links to a user’s profile page can also be found within the Social Squared Forums Popular Topic Web Part and the Social Squared Forums Active Users Web Part.

Users can modify their User Profile by clicking Edit Profile from the Forum Tools tab, or by clicking Edit Profile on the User Profile page, which displays the Edit Profile dialog where users can modify their signature and upload a new image of themselves. Depending on how your Social Squared administrator has configured Profile Settings, the user may also be able to type a nickname and modify their email address.