We’re happy to celebrate the opening of our private online community space for our members.
Available to Networker and Power Networker members.
This replaces the ‘Members Directory’ we had, which was useful, and allowed members to browse other members’ profiles and find contact info and their links.
From talking with several members though, we saw a reason to help members to be able to engage more easily with each other outside of our own in-person events. Members can of course follow-up and build relationships directly with each other, or engage on LinkedIn or other social media, but the private community tools we’ve et up will provide members with an integrated experience…
It brings together several tools and benefits, that were separate or missing before: Much better member Profiles; various ways to engage with other members; networking help and guidance. The networking help and guidance can now better be provided by not just us but anyone in the community with knowledge, expertise or other input and experiences.
Professional Profile Page
Profiles are now a lot more straightforward and familiar for people to set up and manage. They’re also now viewable by non-members of the site (unless hidden from non-members by the profile owner), meaning help with the members’ SEO and more discoverability for their business or organisation.
- Showcase your business.
- Your profile becomes visible to other members when you become active in the community posts and groups.
- Include your business details, links, description, images, videos and more.
- Create posts and engage with other members directly on your profile.
- Choose to allow other members to post on your profile.
- As mentioned, your profile, and the parts you want to be public, can be found by any site visitor, and so help with your SEO and online discoverability.
Community Features include…
- As a private community, it can help to build quality relationships away from the hullabaloo of the major networking platforms.
- Send/receive private messages, with individuals or groups of people.
- Create and comment on multimedia posts, much like on LinkedIn.
- Create polls to get feedback from the whole community or in one of the Groups.
- A safe environment for networking, with GDPR compliancy and privacy built in, ability to report other members, and site administrators monitoring the content.
- The option to start your own blog within the community space. Share your expertise.
- The chance to be heard, get involved, and help shape the future of the UKNetworker services.
Groups
- A group for help and guidance on networking strategy, and networking in general.
- A group where speakers and event organisers can engage with each other.
- A group where events service providers and event organisers can engage with each other.
- Other groups will be started as things develop.
- ‘Power Networker’ members can start their own group.
Al in all, we’re looking forward to experiencing the growth of this online community side of things, and intend to do everything we can to help it all become really valuable and effective for our members.
