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BUSINESS RESOURCE
LINKS
Networking
& Social Bookmarking Web Sites
Ryze.com
— Ryze helps people make connections
and grow their networks. You can network to
grow your business, build your career and life,
find a job and make sales. Or just keep in touch
with friends. Ryze
helps you expand your business network.
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Get a FREE networking-oriented homepage.
- Make
quality business contacts
- Re-connect
with friends -- You probably know people in
here already
- Help
your company make deals through Ryze members.
- Build
your network BEFORE you need it!
Members
get a free networking-oriented home page and can
send messages to other members. They can also join
special Networks related to their industry, interests
or location. More than 1,000 organizations host
Networks on Ryze to help their members interact
with each other and grow their organizations.
LinkedIn
—
With LinkedIn, you find the people, jobs and services
you need through the people you know and trust, while
you strengthen and extend your existing network. The
people you need to reach already use LinkedIn. With
more than 4.4 million users, you can find the contact
you need at every level and in hundreds of industries
Contact them in a trusted way. When an Introduction
matters, LinkedIn lets you send a message through
your network to reach the right sales leads, partners,
and experts. When privacy matters, you can send InMail™,
a LinkedIn service that allows you to directly contact
the right person on LinkedIn.
Xing.com—
Grow your contact list and develop an extensive
professional network. Add your educational information,
external online resources and establish trust
based on your Xing connections. Find deals, employees,
colleagues and jobs; find decision makers fast;
and open doors to thousands of companies.
Yahoo
Groups — Another great way for groups
of people to communicate and network together on the
Internet.
EntreMate
—
Welcome to EntreMate, the premier resource for finding
business partners worldwide!
- Have
an idea for a business, but need someone with certain
skills?
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Looking to join an early-stage startup?
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Need a partner for your current business?
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Looking for partners to expand internationally?
These are just some of the ways EntreMate can help.
You can try a quick search to see a sample of our
membership.
WorthWhileReferralSources.com
- FINALLY, at last, a networking organization that
ACTUALLY works and has everything you need to succeed,
all in ONE PLACE! We are the ONLY networking organization
with all types of meetings to satisfy your networking
palette! These "local" and "Central"
meetings can be described as "formal" networking.
They include sit down breakfast, lunch or dinner.
WorldWIT
— WorldWIT is a the free, global online community
for professional women (men are welcome, too) that
provides member-to-member answers on career, business,
technology, financial and "life" topics. WorldWIT
is the leading global online and offline network for
women in business and technology. WorldWIT offers
networking, events, publications and services.
Company
of Friends — Welcome
to the Company of Friends, Fast Company magazine's
global readers' network. Through the CoF, Fast Company
helps readers and forward-thinking business leaders
and innovators connect, communicate, and collaborate
with other leading readers -- online as well as face
to face in communities around the world.
First
Tuesday — First
Tuesday is the world's leading network for innovation
and technology.
With
over 41,000 active members worldwide, the First Tuesday
network includes 28 cities in 15 countries across
five continents and brings together the leading players
in the technologies sector: entrepreneurs and managers
of new ventures; venture capitalists and investors;
service providers; and "intrapreneurs" and
technology managers in corporate entities.
First
Tuesday cities hold monthly events, such as: the OOOClassic
event, which traditionally brings together the full
range of a city's membership on the first Tuesday
of the month; OOOThought Leadership events, which
bring together leading experts to brainstorm on issues
in the technology sector; or OOOWireless Wednesday
events, which are focused on the wireless segment
of the telecom sector.
Now
in its fourth year of operations, the company was
purchased by its network of First Tuesday cites in
April 2001, comprising a majority of the city licensees,
and by a group of private investors.
PowerMingle
— Based in London, England, their services
are based on a unique matching technology that matches
people and ranks the matches according to the mutual
benefit of establishing contact. This effectively
removes the process of searching for people to network
with. People create their own profile and are instantly
matched with others with whom they can extend their
network.
The
National Association for Female Executives
— NAFE (The National Association for Female
Executives) is one of the largest and most diverse
female business organizations in the country, with
a membership of over 60,000 professional women and
female business owners. NAFE provides networking resources
and exclusive member services--through its publications,
events and commitment to the advancement of women--to
empower members to achieve career success and financial
security.
DirectMatches
— DirectMatches is the first in the online
business and social networking industry to deploy
a multi-matchmaking system that helps people locate
everything from business contacts to finding friendship
and dates online. It is the first business and social
networking service with a contact management system
that operates on a "dynamic basis", where members
are able to select from dedicated networking communities.
Venture
Street Business Network —
Our membership includes experienced professionals
and business owners interested in expanding their
businesses. Our core philosophy is based on relationship
marketing. VentureStreet
is an exclusive community of professionals interested
in marketing and business networking groups. We provide
marketing resources, facilitate networking groups,
and help foster relationships among our professional
members.
Fast
Pitch! Networking — Fast
Pitch! provides serious business profeessionals with
"no-nonsense" speed networking events in 45 cities
across the United States. Two types of events are
offered: ONLINE and ON-SITE. Online events allow you
to actively "pitch" your business to 15 other attendees
in less than 1 hour from the comfort of your own office
using our web conferencing format. On-Site events
allow you to "pitch" your business in a one-on-one
format to up to 40 other attendees in less than 2
hours at a local venue.
Ecademy
Business Networking — The
business exchange that connects people to knowledge,
contacts, support and business. Join the Trusted Business
Network now to help you to network across town, across
country, and across the globe, all at a time that
is convenient to you.
Networking
For Professionals — NFP
makes business networking easy by connecting you with
successful professionals who can best help grow your
business, improve your client base and advance your
career. At Networking For Professionals you can immediately
begin to grow your business by business networking
online. NFP saves busy professionals time, money and
energy spent making new business connections. With
NFP you can easily build your business network from
your home or office, whenever it's convenient.
EONetworkInfo
— Welcome
to the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) network of
New York City. EO is the premier entrepreneur network,
with over 5,000 members representing more than $68
billion in revenues. EO New York City is the largest
chapter of the largest entrepreneur's network of its
kind in the world - all in the greatest city in the
world - New York City. Entrepreneurs
choose EO for:
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Learning and tools that build businesses
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The most connected peer network in New York City
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Unique, once-in-a-lifetime experiences
eXtreme
Networking — Welcome
to eXtreme Networking, the pioneer of high-speed networking
events that harness pre-collected attendee information
to qualitatively couple compatible people. As a producer
of traditional networking events and conferences,
you can now uniquely compress the impact of multiple
wining and dining gatherings into just a few premium-quality
hours. Rather than relying on unguided milling about
or uninformed seat switching, the fundamental distinction
of eXtreme Networking is meetings that only make the
most sense.
AmSpirit
— AmSpirit Business Connections is a national
organization that assists sales representatives, entrepreneurs,
and professionals succeed by creating a forum where
they can exchange qualified referrals with other sales
representatives, entrepreneurs and professionals.
Spoke
— Spoke
was built to be the ultimate sales prospecting tool.
By enabling sales professionals to leverage an extended
network of nearly 30 million people at over 500,000
companies, Spoke delivers the information and access
needed to get access to new accounts and accelerate
the sales cycle.
Southern
California Meetings & Mixers —
MEETINGS
AND MIXERS has quickly become an indispensible resource
for Southern Calfornia business people to find business
meetings, chamber events and networking mixers. You
can help us make this site more valuable to you by
submitting your favorite business meetings and networking
events and mixers to the calendar or oganizations
to the directory. The listings are free, simply use
the forms linked from the new Contact page or also
found within each County area.
Jigsaw
— An
online business contact marketplace where marketers,
recruiters, and sales people can buy, sell and trade
business contact information. Each member provides
a few pieces of the puzzle. Jigsaw assembles them
for the benefit of the community. The Jigsaw marketplace
offers members access to an online database of fresh
and accurate corporate contact information and increases
efficiency by shortening the time required to find
valuable business contacts.
MediaBistro
— Wow,
talk about a great site for meeting other content-developers.
MediaBistro is dedicated to those who create or work
with content, or who are a non-creative professional
working in a content/creative industry, including
editors, writers, television producers, graphic designers,
book publishers, people in production, and circulation
departments - in industries including magazines, television,
radio, newspapers, book publishing, online media,
advertising, PR, and graphic design. The site's mission
is to provide online and offline opportunities for
meeting each other, sharing resources, becoming informed
of job opportunities and interesting projects, improving
career skills, and showcasing work.
NetParty
(Business
& Social Networking Events for Young Professionals)
— Provides access to business and social networking
events for young professionals. While most of the
action take place offline, NetParty, offers an online
opportunity to sign up for events in your city to
network with each other on a business level and interact
with each other on a social level.
BNI
(Business Network Int'l.)
— BNI is an online business and professional networking
organization that offers members the opportunity to
share ideas, contacts and most importantly, referrals.
Belonging
to BNI is like having dozens of sales people working
for you because all of them carry several copies of
your business cards around with them. When they meet
someone who could use your products or services, they
hand out your card and recommend you.* It's as simple
as that! It's simple because it's based on a proven
concept by BNI Founder, Dr Ivan Misner, called "givers
gain." If I give you business you'll give me
business and we'll both benefit as a result.
Meetup
— Meetup.com helps people find others who share
their interest or cause, and form lasting, influential,
local community groups that regularly meet face-to-face.
We believe that the world will be a better place when
everyone has access to a people-powered local Meetup
Group. That's our goal. We encourage all Meetup Groups
to have a local monthly Meetup that's open to anyone
interested. Meetup Group Organizers can schedule Meetups
at any place they choose. (If your Meetup is at a
place of business, please buy a drink or a cup of
coffee to say "thank you" to the venue!)
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