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My site folks at Hoop.la/Social Strata have rolled out yet another major update for us (that I think you will LOVE) focused on mentions or tags, as we're used to calling them on Facebook. Now, it's possible to tag and notify other members when you've mentioned them, or want to alert them to something, in a post. I am happy to say that I suggested this feature upgrade a while ago, and since it was one of the most voted-on suggestions in the Hoop.la development queue, it got implemented - and at no cost to me or you! Yay!

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You can see this feature in use in my comment to Christine in our latest Practice Bakes Perfect challenge post (yes, #18 is now open, folks!), copied above.

To use mentions, simply type an symbol and then begin typing the displayed name of the person you wish to reference. You'll see a dropdown menu of potential matches on the name. Select the proper person, and a mention link will be auto-generated in pink! Once you make the post, that person will receive a special notification about the post.

Note that @mentions are only supported in posts and comments, not in subject lines. But there's one exception: they are not yet supported in chat room/event-type posts.

Please also note that YOU control whether you want to be notified about mentions in your notification preferences under your member profile. The default is set to email all members who are mentioned, but if you want to change this, you need to change this yourself. To do this, simply click on your avatar in the upper right of the site (be sure you are logged in first); then select "Notifications" from the dropdown menu that reveals. Scan down the page until you reach the "Influence Notifications" area, un-check the box labelled "When Someone Mentions You" if you do NOT want to be notified (see image below) , and save your changes. That's it!

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Other New Features In This Release

LinkedIn: You will soon be able to integrate your LinkedIn account (if you have one) into your Cookie Connection member profile, meaning that you will be able to log into this site from LinkedIn. However, due to limitations on the LinkedIn end of things, you will not be able to feed content from LinkedIn into your Cookie Connection member profile, as you can already do with YouTube, Pinterest, and other social sites. I am currently working on enabling this feature, which can take days or weeks of jumping through hoops with LinkedIn, but I will be sure to let you know when it is available to you.

Usernames in Profile URLs: The site no longer uses number IDs in user profile URLs. Instead, it uses the user's actual displayed name (or as close an approximation as it can, since only certain types of characters are supported in URLs). Look at the very top of this screen shot of my profile to see what I mean:

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Any past links to your profile on Cookie Connection will, of course, remain active, but now your name displays in the link, which is just another little form of free advertising! 

I hope you enjoy these new features. If you have any questions about any of them, please let me know in the comments below - and you might want to try out the new @ feature when doing so! 

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Teri Pringle Wood posted:
Teri Pringle Wood posted:

We appreciate your continuous improvements for us, thank you 

@Julia M. Usher

Ha! @Teri Pringle Wood, the new feature appears to be working splendidly - just got notified of your messsage!

Cookies Fantastique by Carol posted:

Have to give this a try, too. Thank you Julia for your hard work to make this site so comprehensive in scope and value! I greatly appreciate all you do

@Julia Usher

Thanks, Carol! However, it looks like you didn't do the tagging thing right, as "Julia Usher" is not my username on the site, so I was not notified. You have to hit "@" and then start typing the person's name; possible matches will be automatically generated for you in a dropdown menu, and you want to select the right person from that menu to make sure you've selected a valid username on the site. If you've properly selected, the person's name will be linked to his/her member profile and appear in pink. Here's what I get if I follow this process to tag you: @Cookies Fantastique.

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@Cookies Fantastique

Hi Carol.  I'm just trying to see if I can get this to work for me.  It looks like it'll work, you're in pink....isn't that your favorite color?  

 OK, I'm gonna send this and see what happens. 

Pip

pip posted:

@Cookies Fantastique

Hi Carol.  I'm just trying to see if I can get this to work for me.  It looks like it'll work, you're in pink....isn't that your favorite color?  

 OK, I'm gonna send this and see what happens. 

Pip

@Teri Pringle Wood

Hi Pip, I'm trying this right back at you.  Not sure what the symbol is after your name as your name doesn't show up in pink.

pip posted:

@Cookies Fantastique

Hi Carol.  I'm just trying to see if I can get this to work for me.  It looks like it'll work, you're in pink....isn't that your favorite color?  

 OK, I'm gonna send this and see what happens. 

Pip

@pip

Hi Pip, I'm trying this right back at you.  Not sure what the symbol is after your name as your name doesn't show up in pink.  You are not in pink so I'm guessing this won't work. Arg...

NOTE: THE FOLLOWING COMMENTS ARE FROM JULIA . . .

@pip - Testing for Carol. @Cookies Fantastique, Hi! You seem to be having trouble with the tagging feature, and I would like to understand why for purposes of troubleshooting, if needed. I just tagged Pip, without any difficulty, above. Again, hit "@", which will change to emboldened font, then start typing in the person's name. When I did the latter for "pip", I got the following dropdown menu . . .

Pip

I then selected the last option in the list; when I did this, her name inserted into the text above, and turned pink to indicate her name is hyperlinked to her profile.

If you continue to have troubles, please contact me with some screen shots of what you see as you go through the process, the name of your device, and the browser (and version) you are using. Any issue may be device-related, but I don't want to report any troubles to my tech team until I am sure you've gone through the above steps. Thanks!

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@Julia M. Usher

I'm gonna assume that you posted the above comment, but the author of the post shows up as being from Carol. 

Also, why does @Teri Pringle Wood appear in Carol's response to me and @Pip appear in your response to Carol?  Hope that makes sense. 

pip posted:

@Julia M. Usher

I'm gonna assume that you posted the above comment, but the author of the post shows up as being from Carol. 

Also, why does @Teri Pringle Wood appear in Carol's response to me and @Pip appear in your response to Carol?  Hope that makes sense. 

I may have inadvertently edited Carol's comment when I replied, rather than replying with a quote, which is why she still appears as the author above. (I can edit anything on the site, but no one else can.) My mistake. I replied with a quote here to you, so I now show up as the author. @pip appears in my comment because Carol was having some trouble tagging both you and Teri (as you can see by her attempts above) and I was just testing to make sure that I could tag you, which I could. Her attempts above are not in pink, which means she wasn't tagging properly, but she has since figured it out. Tagging is working just fine from all I can tell.

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