It also shows you the objectives within your network. Quite neat! CollectiveX has chosen to target SIGS users (same interest groups) and therefore the amount of people you can see is limited to the people on your SIG, which in general isn’t a lot like e.g. LinkedIn and Xing. In this stadium of Web 2.0 development they thus need to do more to let users see all the profiles on the portal, regardless the SIG you have joined. They are thus missing out on the growing potential generated by the enthusiasm of their users.

I have spoken to people at CollectiveX, they are very much open to improvement suggestions, which is good. Try to contact e.g. people at LinkedIn and they will not even answer your email or call.

Summary CollectiveX is promising and that is why I chose to write about it. It is the only portal I know of which matches business objectives, which is a start. It doesn’t have any Skype or IM integration and it totally misses out on the opportunity to reach out to the masses first.

But maybe that makes it ideal if you want to create a limited and very selective SIG…

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