Talkbiznow
Encyclopedia
Talkbiznow is a comprehensive interactive business networking
site for business professionals and the business-to-business
. By displaying how each member is connected to any other member, it visualises the small-world phenomenon. Founded in 2008 and launched in August 2008, the site is a web-based business community and collaboration tool that provides business services for small businesses and professionals.
and Collaboration Tools for Business Exchange and like minded interests for a shared purpose.
Talkbiznow was founded and launched by Chief Executive Officer
& Co-founder Martin Warner
and Executive Chairman & Co-founder Mark Parker. Formerly, Martin was a Europe
an Technology Practice Leader at BearingPoint
. Warner is also a film producer
, and angel investor
, and the founder and Chairman of Cabo Films, an independent motion picture and documentary feature company.
The company's mission is to simplify the essential business services and seamlessly integrate and deliver them through the internet for Free. Making it possible for businesses of all sizes to network
, collaborate and essentially expand their services in avenues they might not have explored before. Talkbiznow has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle
, Design Week
, Sky News
, The Financial Times
, The Guardian
, Times Online, Forbes
, Fox Business News, and The Daily Telegraph
.
The Talkbiznow platform offers User profile
generation, Business networking
, Web Conferencing
, voice conferencing and other common Social networking features. Some of the key features and benefits can be listed as:
Business networking
Business networking is a socioeconomic activity by which groups of like-minded businesspeople recognize, create, or act upon business opportunities. A business network is a type of social network whose reason for existing is business activity...
site for business professionals and the business-to-business
Business-to-business
Business-to-business describes commerce transactions between businesses, such as between a manufacturer and a wholesaler, or between a wholesaler and a retailer...
. By displaying how each member is connected to any other member, it visualises the small-world phenomenon. Founded in 2008 and launched in August 2008, the site is a web-based business community and collaboration tool that provides business services for small businesses and professionals.
History
Talkbiznow was founded as a integrated global platform of services. Allowing users the ability to network, advertise their business and professional services and utilize the ProductivityProductivity
Productivity is a measure of the efficiency of production. Productivity is a ratio of what is produced to what is required to produce it. Usually this ratio is in the form of an average, expressing the total output divided by the total input...
and Collaboration Tools for Business Exchange and like minded interests for a shared purpose.
Talkbiznow was founded and launched by Chief Executive Officer
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...
& Co-founder Martin Warner
Martin Warner
Martin Warner is an English Technology CEO, film and documentary producer, serial investor and philanthropist. Warner is currently the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of the San Francisco based, online business community company Talkbiznow...
and Executive Chairman & Co-founder Mark Parker. Formerly, Martin was a Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an Technology Practice Leader at BearingPoint
BearingPoint
BearingPoint is an independent management and technology consulting firm. Following a post-bankruptcy management buyout in August 2009, BearingPoint has been operated by its European management team and is organized as a partnership...
. Warner is also a film producer
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...
, and angel investor
Angel investor
An angel investor or angel is an affluent individual who provides capital for a business start-up, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity...
, and the founder and Chairman of Cabo Films, an independent motion picture and documentary feature company.
The company's mission is to simplify the essential business services and seamlessly integrate and deliver them through the internet for Free. Making it possible for businesses of all sizes to network
Business networking
Business networking is a socioeconomic activity by which groups of like-minded businesspeople recognize, create, or act upon business opportunities. A business network is a type of social network whose reason for existing is business activity...
, collaborate and essentially expand their services in avenues they might not have explored before. Talkbiznow has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
thumb|right|upright|The Chronicle Building following the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake]] and fireThe San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, but distributed throughout Northern and Central California,...
, Design Week
Design Week
Design Week is a UK-based magazine launched in 1986 for the design industry. The publication was first published in October 1986 by Centaur Communications and currently [2011] published by Centaur Media plc...
, Sky News
Sky News
Sky News is a 24-hour British and international satellite television news broadcaster with an emphasis on UK and international news stories.The service places emphasis on rolling news, including the latest breaking news. Sky News also hosts localised versions of the channel in Australia and in New...
, The Financial Times
Financial Times
The Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City....
, The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, Times Online, Forbes
Forbes
Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, the Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published biweekly, and Business Week...
, Fox Business News, and The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...
.
Features
The purpose of this site is to allow professionals and small businesses to network, collaborate and promote themselves online within a web-based community using a variety of services, features and desktop tools.The Talkbiznow platform offers User profile
User profile
A user profile is a collection of personal data associated to a specific user. A profile refers therefore to the explicit digital representation of a person's identity...
generation, Business networking
Business networking
Business networking is a socioeconomic activity by which groups of like-minded businesspeople recognize, create, or act upon business opportunities. A business network is a type of social network whose reason for existing is business activity...
, Web Conferencing
Web conferencing
Web conferencing refers to a service that allows conferencing events to be shared with remote locations. Most vendors also provide either a recorded copy of an event, or a means for a subscriber to record an event. The service allows information to be shared simultaneously, across geographically...
, voice conferencing and other common Social networking features. Some of the key features and benefits can be listed as:
- Community Advertising Services - That include User Generated Ad Postings, Dynamic Multimedia Import, Instant Measurable Clickpath and Searchable Listings Index
- Business Networking - With facilities like Instant Messaging, Email Messaging, Advanced User Profiling and Contact Management
- The Marketplace - A new visual, user configurable marketplace that extends beyond the walled-garden out into the internet with facilities such as Micro-sites and E-Commerce Integration
- A peer-to-peer Collaboration toolCollaboration toolA collaboration tool is something that helps people collaborate. The term is often used to mean collaborative software, but collaboration tools were being used before computers existed...
- Such as Web Conferencing, Voice Conferencing, Blogging and User Polls
- Productivity Tools - Essential tools to support the user through there community experience, focused around their daily work life.
Services
Talkbiznow networking services make it easy for users to expand their customer base, to recruit new employees or even plan strategic career moves.- My Workspace offers users a snapshot view of their account, allowing for easy and efficient management of all networking, tools, collaboration and communication tools
- Webstore is a public facing service that offers users the ability to sell and market their goods and services online
- Search facilities to explore the active Talkbiznow community, advertisingAdvertisingAdvertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common...
and even member blog archives - Contact Management tools that offer full control over profile viewing, nudges, message management, chatting and invites
- Groups allow users to facilitate discussions with like-minded people and view prospective business contacts
- Voice Conferencing service is free to use and allows users and their business contacts to make conference calls utilizing VOIP or SkypeSkypeSkype is a software application that allows users to make voice and video calls and chat over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both traditional landline telephones and mobile phones can be made for a fee using a debit-based user account system...
- Adverts to share with colleagues and contacts within user networks, public or private
- Blogging for private or business purposes
- Calendar management where users can link all Talkbiznow services together and highlight from within the Dashboard when to action tasks, send emails, host webinars and attend new presentations
External links
- Talkbiznow Web Site
- Talkbiznow Press Centre
- Talkbiznow Management Team
- Martin Warner Web Site Martin Warner web site
- BBC Click Kate Russell on the Internet
- PaidContent Interview Interview: Martin Warner, CEO, Talkbiznow:’Not too late for another business .net