Hi Bill.
I would like to respond to your idea of that it would be really helpful if people would add a little bit more information to their profile, and I would like to say :
This is also something we have been thinking about as we were building this site, – and I would welcome any ideas or suggestions as to how we could make it easier for people to provide more personal information about themselves.
Perhaps a new category would be an idea – one of introducing yourself ?
We have been talking about making a map, in which we could insert peoples location, but we cannot really do that without approval from everyone 🙂 .. – it has to be very much on peoples own initiative. But I would certainly be happy to make a map, and I might just put anyone there who by themselves said they would like to, – and I could also just make the location approximate, not with any specific address.
Another thing which I think sometimes is needed in this forum, is for the different members to be able to contact each other, via email, – so adding an email would be really convinient also.
I have also been thinking about making it possible here to be able to write personal messages, – and it might be possible to have this options, as well as other options to expand profiles, BUT to install this here is a little bit more advanced than I feel secure about, – so I have hesitated to do it, – but it certainly is possible at some stage, if and when its needed and seems purposeful.
But as a start, – do you think it might be a good idea to have a kind of ‘Introducing myself’ category ???