Friday, 1 February 2008

Professional Networking

'Use YOUR professional network' is the message we are sending out to North of England members at the moment.

'It is widely recognised that social networking sites are
wasting many valuable working hours in the UK economy.
They are, it is fair to say, an entertaining distraction.
Professional networks, by contrast, have already proven their
value in a broad sphere - and the new CIM professional
network, cim.mvine, launched on 14th January can deliver value
for you as a member of the Institute and a professional Marketer.'

The advantages are clear:
Advice - access the knowledge of a network of CIM member
professionals in all marketing disciplines from across the country
and internationally.
Business opportunities - highlight your area of expertise,
answer people’s queries, become trusted and ultimately gain
business.
Referrals - in a network someone always knows someone who
can help.
Career / Recruitment - when recruiting or looking for a new
role, networking is proven to be invaluable.
Share - documents and other digital assets easily and securely.

The potential is enormous - we currently say that as a member you are part of a community of 50,000 marketers worldwide, and through this system you can actually network with them too!

The proof is in our members engaging with this new medium, and not to be unfair to our older members, I am sure it won't be all 50,000 that take this bull by the horns.
Anyway, The Institute is proving it is dynamic and listening to it members and I am sure the younger members will be pleased with this development.

1 Comments:

At 03 February 2008 21:52 , Anonymous Nigel Adams (CIM Northamptonshire) said...

As one of the "older members", I am also pleased that you have launched this networking initiative and I have already joined it. Congratulations.

All I hope is that I have enough time to participate, especially as I already find it difficult to keep up with: the Ecademy, LinkedIn, Facebook, Zoom Info, Xing, etc e-networks that I also belong to.

I am sure that there must be some consolidation of all these e-networks in future or even those of us who are positive about networking might get fed-up with it.

 

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