Members & Contacts

v5.1 - Last Mod.: 10/02/2009
You have multiple options to search for friends, colleagues, employees or other people to contact them and to build and enlarge your personal network.
Warning: The given links and names can diverge from the network you are using. This depends on the operating company.
Note: To contact other members you need to be logged in.

1. Members

In this menu you find the Advanced Search with which you search for members who also have a profile in the network. Note: A member is every registered person in the network. There are different memberships with different permissions. A contact is a person who you already added to your network.

1.1 Member Search

Note: Depending on your membership you have different options.
  1. In the network navigation click the tab Networking.
  2. Click the link Member Search.
    You get to the tab Advanced Search.
  3. Fill in the fields you need with the data you have, like last name and company.
  4. Click the button Find.
  1. Click the tab Special Search.
  2. Choose the section in which you want to search someone.
  3. Click the link, depending on your search.
As far as search results match with your entered data they get listed. By clicking the image or the name of the found member you can view the complete profile with all data, existing blogs and articles and you can accomplish further actions, q.v. 1.2 Accomplish Actions.

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1.2 Accomplish Actions

If you have found the person you were looking for, you have the following possibilities:
  1. In the search results click the image or the name of the member.
  2. Click on of the following links:
    • Notes to add a note to the member, which you can view in your contacts any time.
    • Send message to send a message to the member.
    • Add contact to send a contact query to the member.
    • Report abuse to identify the member if you think the profile is faked.
    • Introduce to introduce the member to one of your contacts.
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2. Contacts

In this menu you find the contacts you already added to your network.
Note: A contact is a person who you already added to your network. A member is every registered person in the network. There are different memberships with different permissions.
  1. In the network navigation click the tab Networking.
  2. Click the link My Contacts.
    You get to the tab Confirmed.
Here you find all contacts which are confirmed already. You have the following possibilities:
  1. Click the tab Unconfirmend.
Here you find contact requests which were not confirmed yet. This area is separated in Incoming contact requests and Outgoing contact requests.
  1. Click the tab Notes.
Here you can write and edit notes regarding your contacs.

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