Why StudiVz and TakingITGlobal are better
There are quite a few networks available for staying in contact with your friends, such as OpenBC (bald Xing), StudiVZ.de, Unister.de, MySpace.Com, Facebook.com, Orkut.com, Friendster.com, LinkedIn.com, Reunion.Com and TakingItGlobal.org and many more.
Here are my reasons why StudiVZ and TakingITGlobal.org are the best solutions for staying in contact with people.
- Almost everybody is inside: at StudiVZ.de and TakingItGlobal.org everybody can sign up and a lot of students and alumni from Germany are already there.
- Contacting is easier: At LinkedIn.com you have to know another person’s emailaddress if you want to contact them. However with many people having three or four email-addresses, such guesswork becomes very laborous. With TakingItGlobal, you just need their names and you can add them to your friends-network, at StudiVz (as well as Facebook, OpenBC you need their confirmation first.
- A great ressource: TakingItGlobal is not only an contact network, but also offers a wide variety of information about funding, NGOs, campaigns and activities – and StudiVZ is increasingly becoming a ressource for discussing and researching.
- It is easy to generate new groups. Just recently I started a group on Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsiblity at StudiVZ and it has received enormous attention. It now serves not only as a meeting point for people interested in the topic, but also as an exchange base for announcing meeting and conferences. At OpenBC groups have to be applied for and recently an application for a group of former Alumni of the Bavarian Representation in Brussels was rejected.
- Not (yet) commercialised. To make use of the full service of OpenBC, you have to pay. Unister.de and MySpace.Com are covered with commercial stuff. Both TIG and StudiVZ are relatively free from advertising. Hopefully it stays like that.
- Truly international. Okay StudiVZ concentrates on Germany, Orkut on Asia and South America, MySpace on NorthAmerica. But TakingITGlobal.org is truly international because members are from all parts of the globe.
- Featuring new artists.Both platforms have created opportunites for young writers, singers and painters to express themselves.
- Better with the users.. While Unister has the reputations of attacking users or advertising for their site with questionable methods, the people behind StudiVZ and TIG are real people who answer nice and polite.
November 15th, 2006 at 06:20
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