New Profiles Now on DZone!

Hello DZone Community!

Recently, you might have seen our announcement about the updates to the Core program. We’ve received a lot of great feedback about the new program, and we’re very excited to continue growing and expanding it to more members!

But that was just the beginning. We’ve been working hard on improvements across the entire DZone community, and today, we are thrilled to announce some big improvements to your DZone profiles! 

There’s a lot to unpack with these new profiles, but the overall gist of it is that it gives them a fresh new look (ooh shiny!!) and adds some new features for you. Among other things, we’ve added:

• A section for your education, training, and credentials earned
• Sections for any Trend Reports and Refcards you’ve contributed to
• A section for any DZone events you’ve been a part of

While all members will receive the above updates to their profiles, we’ve built some additional features for our Core members. They truly go above and beyond for the DZone community by being highly engaged and regularly contributing expert content to the site. These additional changes will help continue to elevate them as thought leaders both within the DZone community and across the industry at large. 

Core member profiles will now have: 

• Optimized profile
• A place to add open-source projects they're working on or support
• A section recognizing when they're highlighted as a Featured Expert on DZone
• A new, exclusive banner showcasing their Core membership

We could not be more excited to roll out these new profiles to you all. Every single one of our contributors is essential to what we do at DZone, and these new profiles will help highlight to our community and the rest of our audience just how knowledgeable and important you are to DZone. We literally would not be here without you! 

If you haven't already and would like to begin your contributor journey, you can start by creating your own article! Our team of editors is here to help along the way. You can reach out to editors@dzone.com with any of your content questions.

Please spend some time poking around your new profile, and let us know what you think. We’re always open to feedback and new ideas! Drop us a line at community@dzone.com with your thoughts. 

We are so incredibly grateful for all you do for DZone!

Sincerely,

The DZone Team