Comments on: New name won’t help! http://bomega.com/2006/09/23/new-name-wont-help/ Internet Entrepreneur, Public Speaker, Blogger Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:35:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten http://bomega.com/2006/09/23/new-name-wont-help/#comment-53 Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten Sun, 24 Sep 2006 07:41:12 +0000 http://www.bomega.com/2006/09/23/new-name-wont-help/#comment-53 Hi Bill, thanks for the comment. Although I agree with your statements I also was hoping for a more detailed reaction on my theory that social networking just for the sake of networking is becoming less interesting. I mean, how many businessopportunities do people actually find through Social Networks? I could offer you a succes story (or 2) of business being done through OpenBC but those seems to be the exceptions. It would be interesting to hear from you what OpenBC will offer next to just introductions to other OpenBC members. Hi Bill, thanks for the comment. Although I agree with your statements I also was hoping for a more detailed reaction on my theory that social networking just for the sake of networking is becoming less interesting.

I mean, how many businessopportunities do people actually find through Social Networks? I could offer you a succes story (or 2) of business being done through OpenBC but those seems to be the exceptions.

It would be interesting to hear from you what OpenBC will offer next to just introductions to other OpenBC members.

]]> By: Bill Liao http://bomega.com/2006/09/23/new-name-wont-help/#comment-52 Bill Liao Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:06:36 +0000 http://www.bomega.com/2006/09/23/new-name-wont-help/#comment-52 I have to say that just using social software to collect contacts is at best counter productive and at worst it is downright annoying. It is certainly not the purpose for which we designed openBC and we actively discourage contact collectors. openBC was designed to allow people to see the contacts of their peers and thereby actually make new business opportunites. The platform was also designed to facilitate introductions between people. If your key activity on openBC was to collect contacts then that was not really using the platform for what it was designed for. I have to say that just using social software to collect contacts is at best counter productive and at worst it is downright annoying. It is certainly not the purpose for which we designed openBC and we actively discourage contact collectors.

openBC was designed to allow people to see the contacts of their peers and thereby actually make new business opportunites. The platform was also designed to facilitate introductions between people.

If your key activity on openBC was to collect contacts then that was not really using the platform for what it was designed for.

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