As of June 30th, in less than two months, LinktoCharlotte has reached 70 members. We have not officially announced anything to the public, but have grown via word of mouth to our associates and friends and those on a global network called LinkedIn.
As I reflect back on the goals, here are the top 10 we met:
1. Have business leaders form diverse companies in the community join
2. Have well known civic and sports organizations join
3. Have a kickoff meeting to meet and receive feedback from our members
4. Establish a regular low cost event for members to meet
5. Learn the administration tools needed to operate the site.
6. Bring in paid sponsors or members.
7. Have members post of news of interesting events or places to visit
8. Fill out their "visual space" and keyword profiles
9. Find a passionate core of early adopters who will help propel this forward.
10. Grow at an average of 1 to 2 new people per day.
As we start the third quarter our goal is to invite the media to join and learn about our site and social networking. This would include newspaper, magazines, radio and television. Having a background in media (see www.mediamensch.com I believe that the real core of social networking is "communications". The goal of this site is to "connect" individuals who may not otherwise ever meet. For example, how does a public relations professional meet an organic gardening expert. (yes, we do have one). They typically don't go to the same industry networking groups. On a personal side as we get more isolated from each other, our visual space area can help you find people of similar interests and let you know, through a visual bubble map or clould that you may want to connect.
This is exciting stuff.
Also exciting is that our other sister networks in New York City, Chicago and Nashville continue to grow as well. We also have trade groups for the wireless and "Relationship Networking" industries as part of platform which linktocharlotte runs on. This gives our development team the funding needed to propel this platform forward and create awareness as we cross promote between cities and industry groups.
Thanks for all your support during our initial launch.
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2 comments:
I just wanted to let you know that I have used linked in for several months and find that it isnt very useful. If people want to contect me to share ideas, they have to pay linked in therefore, they dont contact me. I want to contact someone and share an idea, I have to pay so I dont contact anyone. There is no news on anything...its just a static database....I dont see how it is possibly useful..
Try www.congoo.com or facebook.com. Congoo.com has industry news too. My two cents.
I agree. Most of our conversations happen in Yahoo Groups.
Today, I lauched a new website and Facebook Group called Facebook Enthusiast.
Also, this is why LinktoCharlotte is so powerful. By its mission it is already filtering out college, high school and other non-business types. The plan is to have a symbiotic relationship between Facebook, LinkedIn and LinktoCharlotte.
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