UPDATE – we’ve just ungraded to the latest versions of WordPress 3.1 and BuddyPress 1.2.8. So, we’re trying chat again.

You can chat with someone else who is logged into the New Work City Social Network using different channels for public vs. private or one of the groups we’ve created for Help, Event Planners, Feedback, or Trainers. Try using the topmost menu to get to chat or try navigating to a Group (e.g. Community > Groups > Trainers).

The screen shot below is from an older release of this site. Members, Groups and Forums are now part of the main navigation.

You should make sure your avatar (logo or photo) appears in our social network for New Work City. There a lots of reasons to have your photo in this site and we’ll explain more of what we’re doing with member profiles in future posts here. Two of the ways to upload your avatar, described below, will also populate many other systems on the web.

1. Change your avatar within this site

Select “My Account > Profile > Change Avatar” from the menu at the top of the page, as illustrated in the screen shot below.

2. Upload photo to your gmail account

When you’re in your gmail account, just click “settings” at the top, right of the page to see the screen below. Once, your gmail account has a photo, then WordPress will use the photo now associated with the email address you used when you registered with this WordPress site.

3. Gravatar puts your face everywhere

The folks at Automattic, who created WordPress, have also created Gravatar, which helps you to create or change your avatar that will be picked up by other services.

Elizabeth Fuller is the cofounder of Score.ly, the only free way to showcase online milestones and legitimate real world achievements. They make it fun, acceptable and simple for 13-83 year olds to catalog and boast about their proudest accomplishments. Connect to your social media services to share your accomplishments with the rest of your community. Then discover what your friends and the community are achieving!

New Work City member Alex Shapiro founded TouchGraph, LLC in 2001, and created the original visual browser for Google.

Watch our first member video. We’ll be doing one a week.

Jonathan Wegener is the author of Exit Strategy the ultimate New York City Navigation app. Plan where to stand with Exit Strategy NYC and shave minutes off every trip! Visit Jonathan Wegener’s web site.

On September 1, 2010 New Work City members moved into our new space at 412 Broadway, New York, NY 10013.

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