Your profile
Build, enrich, and control your JOGL Network profile.
Your profile is how other members and communities discover you. The richer it is, the better your search matches and event recommendations.
What's on a profile
Your profile page has two main tabs:
- About: Bio, Looking for, Skills, Experience, Education and Volunteering.
- Portfolio: Projects, Honors & awards, Publications, Patents and Code Repositories.
You can edit each section yourself, except Volunteering and Honors & awards: those come from LinkedIn when your profile is enriched, and show only when they have entries. Looking for says what you are looking for: pick from a list of options and add a few words of your own if you like.
The header shows your photo, name and headline, then the organizations you currently work for (taken from the current entries in your Experience, each named once) and your location. Contact opens your contact details and links, each shown only to the people you chose (see Controlling who sees what). To share your profile, open the ⋯ menu and choose Share my profile: Copy link, Show QR code or Share via... (on a phone, your phone's own share sheet or the QR code).
The Community info tab lists the communities you share with the member that have something to show you. Pick one to see what it keeps about the member in its own fields, when the community has chosen to share it. Each community decides: some information is shared with all its members, some only with its admins and the member concerned (a field set that way is marked with a lock). Information a community keeps for its admins only is shown to its admins alone. Other members never see sensitive kinds of data such as health or religion there: a sensitive field set to all members, or to admins and the member concerned, shows there only to the community's admins and that member. A community's admins see every field of their community there, each one not shared with all members tagged Admins only or Admins and the member and each sensitive one tagged Sensitive, and fill the values in from the same place. An interview a community invites you to in your Messages may also ask you for some of them.
Changing your photo, name and headline
- On your profile, click Edit profile.
- Photo: click your avatar and pick an image, or drag an image onto it: a JPEG, PNG or WebP file of up to 5 MB. It is resized to 512 × 512 pixels at most.
- Name: change your first and last name in the two fields that appear. Names are stored in one form: each part of your first name starts with a capital, and your last name is written in capitals.
- Headline: click your headline (or Click to add your professional headline), write up to 200 characters in Edit headline, and click Save.
- Location: edit it in place under your headline. The organizations line is not edited here: change your Experience entries instead.
- Click Save Changes (a disk icon on a phone).
Enriching your profile
Instead of filling everything in by hand, you can let JOGL Network help. On your own profile, the Enrich profile button (Enrich on a phone) opens a window that explains two ways to do it, and the ⋯ menu holds a third action:
- Enrich with AI — enriches your profile with AI from public sources (LinkedIn, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, and web research). A dialog asks you to choose what it may change before it runs: Improve my whole profile may rewrite your jobs, schools and other entries more precisely and add to your headline and bio, without removing anything you wrote; Only fill what's missing leaves everything you wrote as it is and only adds what your profile lacks. While AI processing is temporarily unavailable for your region, the dialog says so and the run does not start: try again a little later.
- Talk with Jojo — updates your profile through a short, guided conversation. You can answer by typing or by voice (dictation). The Let Jojo fill the gaps card on your profile starts the same interview.
- Reset my profile, in the ⋯ menu — clears AI-enriched data if you want to start over. Skills, career entries and contact details you added yourself count as your own and are kept, and so do career entries you edited and contact details whose value or type you changed. Changing only a contact detail's label or who can see it does not make it yours, so Reset removes it if it came from enrichment.
Your own profile also shows a Profile strength card: a score, and the details worth adding next, each opening the editor.
Enrich with AI runs inside the community you joined first, which can be your personal network (the private community where the contacts you import go). Each run costs credits, and the dialog shows how many before you start. There is no monthly limit, on the free plan or a paid one: on the free plan it uses your monthly free credits, if your account receives them, or credits you buy. The charge goes to whoever your billing owner resolves to — usually you, but not always. The run is attributed to one of your communities, so whoever pays for that community can absorb the charge before it reaches your balance: an organization through standing funding or a delegation budget, a person who pays for it with their own credits through a delegation rule of their own.
Things Jojo wasn't sure about
When an enrichment run finds something it can't settle alone, such as two sources that disagree on a fact, or papers or a patent that may not be yours, your profile shows a card such as 3 things to check. Nothing is added until you say so. Check now opens a page where you answer each one.
Publications that may not be yours
Publications are grouped by the OpenAlex author profile they came from. When a group looks like it may belong to another researcher with a similar name, or was added on limited evidence, your own profile shows Some publications may not be yours above your publications, with each group and its papers. These are mine keeps the group. Not mine removes one paper, and when the paper has an OpenAlex work id, later publication syncs don't add it back. These aren't me removes every paper in the group once you confirm, and re-enriching may add them back if they match you; it is not offered when a check found some of the group's papers to be yours.
Below your publications, Author profiles set aside lists the OpenAlex author profiles that were judged not to be you; their papers stay off your profile. If one is yours, click This is me and confirm with Put it back: its papers are added at the next publication sync.
Controlling who sees what
- Public profile — a switch in Settings → Account. When it's off, only members of your communities and your connections can see your profile.
- Per-contact visibility — each contact or social item has its own audience: Public, Connections only, My communities and connections, Specific communities, or Private. My communities and connections reaches the members of any community you belong to and your connections, even those who share no community with you. So you can share your email with one community but not the whole network. Public needs a public profile: until your profile is public, an item marked Public reaches your communities and connections only.
- Community info — each community sets who can see the information it keeps about you. Your own profile shows what it shares, and a lock marks the answers to a field set to you and its admins.
Making a profile public needs a verified account: an account whose trust level reads unverified cannot switch its profile to public, and the app explains what to do. Accounts created before trust levels existed carry no level and count as trusted, so they are unaffected — but an account a moderator has flagged for review reads unverified however old it is.
Claimed vs. internal profiles
Communities can add people as internal profiles before those people join — for example when importing a member list. An admin then marks such a profile claimable against your real address; signing in with that email claims it automatically, linking the community's data to your account and making the profile yours to edit and control. An internal profile that was never made claimable carries a placeholder address, so signing in does not pick it up.
What others can do from your profile
Depending on your settings, visitors to your profile can Contact you (message), send a connection request, Book a meeting if you have opened bookings (see Meetings), save you to a project, or keep a private note about you that only they can see. The Ask about card lets them ask Jojo about you, from your profile, publications and projects, and Communities in common lists the communities you share. From the ⋯ menu they can Introduce you to someone else, which starts a group conversation with both of you (see Messaging), or Remove connection if you are connected. They can also block or report you, and a block, made by either of you, stops messages, connection requests and bookings between you (see Blocking and reporting a member).
Blocking and reporting a member
On another member's profile (not an internal one), the More actions menu (the ⋯ button) offers Block and Report. The same menu sits at the top of your conversation with them in Messages.
Block works both ways: until you unblock them, neither of you can message the other, send a connection request, book a meeting or send a meeting request, in the app or through the API. Blocking also removes your connection and any connection request between you, and unshares the projects shared between you. A pending meeting request between you is answered: one they sent you is declined, one you sent them is cancelled. Meetings and bookings already made are kept, but a pending booking can no longer be confirmed. Your conversation stays readable to both of you, with no new messages, and their profile shows Blocked where Connect and Book a meeting were. A block hides no profile: you can still see each other's, unless one of you could see it only through the connection the block removed. A community invitation between you still goes out, without the inviter's name.
They are not told. They get the same answers as someone your settings keep from reaching you, and a message they send in your conversation is refused with This member isn't accepting messages from you.
To unblock someone, choose Unblock in the same menu, or open Settings → Privacy, where Blocked people lists everyone you blocked, each with Report and Unblock. Unblocking brings back nothing the block removed: send a new connection request, or share again, if you want to.
Report sends a report to the JOGL team, not to community admins. Pick a reason, add details if you like, and tick Also block this member to block them at the same time. The member isn't told that they were reported, or by whom. Reporting the same person again while your report is open replaces it.