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How to customize your tag cloud in Jostle

Tags tab in your User Profile

Jostle mines tags from the links you provide and information in your Bio to create a relevant word clouds in User Profiles and Team Profiles. These tags are used to help other users find you by your skills and interests via Search.

You can customize your Tag Cloud by promoting tags, blocking tags, or adding tags of your own. Click Edit in the upper right corner of the Tags tab in your Profile to:

Promote tags

Enter one of your current tags here to make dit more prominent (larger) in your Tag Cloud.

Block tags

Enter one of your current tags here if you want it removed from your Tag Cloud.

Add tags

If you want to add a specific tag that is currently not in your Cloud Tag, just enter it in the Promote Tags field and it will be added to your Tag Cloud. And if you want certain words paired together, enter them in the same field, for example "Cat Lover".

Tips:

  • You can control what words are paired together. Sometimes the tag engine may take two words that are normally paired together and make them separate tags, so someone who should be tagged with "Senior Manager" might get tagged with "Senior" and "Manager" instead. To correct this, just enter "Senior" and "Manager" to Block Tags and then add  "Senior Manager" to Promote Tags.
  • You can control what words aren't paired together. If the reverse situation happens and you get two words paired together that shouldn't be, for example "Jogging Researcher", then the same rule as above applies. Block "Jogging Researcher" to remove it from your cloud and then add "Jogging" and "Researcher" to Promote Tags to add them back separately.
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    Kelsey Martins

    Will there be some sort of replacement for this feature? Why is it being removed?

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    Brad Palmer

    Hi Kelsey,

    There has been a fair bit of feedback that this approach is outdated. And we are always looking for ways to simplify our platform.

    That being said, we do need to keep a way to retain the ability for people to add and block tags that apply to them. We have yet to invest design time as to exactly how we would do this in a more efficient way. Because of that challenge, this is not going to go away this Fall as we previously speculated.

    Brad

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