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Your association has signed up to issociate. Why should you care? Here are 5 ways that issociate can improve your business or professional life.
- Stay in touch with people you’ve met
- Make contact with people you’d like to meet
- Keep your finger on the pulse
- Find people like you
- Get answers you can rely upon
1. Stay in touch with people you’ve met
Someone you once worked with is now doing interesting things. But you’ve lost her business card and a Google search has failed to unearth her contact details. With issociate, you can get back in touch.
issociate lets you make contact with – and stay in touch with – anyone in your association you’ve ever met.
2. Make contact with people you’d like to meet
There are people in your association whom you admire and respect. There might even be people you’d like to have as mentors. But it can be scary approaching these people in real life. issociate gives you a much less intimidating way to make contact.
You can send them an e-business card. If it’s accompanied by an informed, sincere message, there is a good chance that they will respond positively.
Don’t expect them to take you under their wing and share their contacts from the first instance. But, if you continue to demonstrate your professionalism – and don’t make an ass of yourself at the annual conference – you could in time develop a powerful ally.
3. Keep your finger on the pulse
It’s tough staying up to date with everything that’s going on in your industry or profession. But there are members of your association who do know what’s happening. Where can you find them? On issociate.
This is the official social network of your association and the collective wisdom on the site is staggering. The news feed and events calendar will help you stay in touch. But it’s in the forums that you’ll find out what’s really going on. Be a regular visitor there and you’ll stay plugged into the real powerhouse of your profession.
4. Find people like you
There are elements of your profession that you’re particularly interested in. Passionate about even. And you don’t get to share that passion at your average suburban BBQ – because if you did you might be considered a bit of a loon. But, on issociate, you can find people in your association who share your fascination.
Your association has established Working Groups that might match your interests. In future releases of issociate, you’ll be able to create your own Groups. Stay tuned.
5. Get answers you can rely upon
Isn’t the internet great? It doesn’t matter what problem you’ve got, a simple Google search will invariably turn up a solution. Of course, if you’re a brain surgeon, it might not pay to rely on the opinion of BillyBob666 from Bethesda. That’s where issociate can help.
For one, only members of your professional or industry association can belong to issociate – it’s not open to individuals. What’s more, users can’t be anonymous. Members can only log in under their real name so you know exactly whom you are dealing with – and can weigh up their opinion accordingly.
issociate lets you draw on the greatest professional knowledge pool in the country.
Try it – it’s free
If you’re still not sure that issociate is for you, give it a try. It won’t cost you a cent. And you might be surprised. Social networking is a bit like an olive. Before you’ve experienced it, it’s difficult to see the need. Once you’ve had it, you can’t get enough.
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