LinkedIn users are shown a progress bar and told that their profile is "X% completed." This is probably effective but some people tell us it makes them feel guilty.
Lijit does a great job - they just ask what your most common username is and then they check for public profiles with that username on a long list of different services. In just moments, with a handful of keystrokes, all kinds of info about you can be gathered together.
Strands, presents customers of Spanish bank BBVA with messages like the following: "Grocery spending: A married person spends 103% more on groceries than a single person. By the way, are you married orsingle?" That's interesting to know and would motivate me to answer the question with a click.
SocialMedian assigns a big picture of a famous (or infamous) person as each new user's avatar - something that must get a lot of new users to click the "change my photo" link. It's a witty idea and we wonder just how far it could be taken.
There's not a whole lot of excuses any more for asking users of your brand new website to fill in a whole lot of information about themselves. Nor is there for having super anemic user profiles, which leave new users totally uninspired to connect with each other. You need users connecting as quickly as possible in your apps and rich profiles really help.
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