Get together – wherever you are

We changed our company tag line from “We’re networking people” to “Get together – wherever you are”.

Why? Did our marketing department get bored one day with the old one? Actually we involved the entire company in the process of distillign the vision  of openBC.

We are focussed on being user orientated and with this message we feel we are able to better explain the value we are offering to our members. The new tag line is directed toward whats in it for you rather than being a technically clever play on words. Our  core values have always revolved around people rather than technology so we felt it was time that our motto refelcted more of the warmth our team feels and that the motto would focus on what is really important which is getting people together across the world.

Bringing people together. That is our mission: Online networking is about building trust to bridge the chasms of culture, language and distance. Allowing you to connect with and then get together with people you know, people you knew and people you don’t yet know in a secure enviroment.

Nearly every major online networking site can now see the value in an open and searchable index of all or most of thier members. To effectivly bring people togehter you need more than the feature “add me as a contact” or “forward a request”, with openBC we provide a whole range of tools and products like Forums/Groups where you can share information on a variety of topics and exchange information with experts. We provide search agents that can alert you when someone you are looking for joins the platform. We have a matchmaking tool, a secure way to exchange contact information to allow you to always stay in touch with your contacts most up to date adress etc. We provide a comprehensive tool to set up events with very sophisticated funtions that allow you to handle events of any size and we provide openBC official events where you can be sure that you will meet interesting people and have a great time and it is the abiltiy to do events that sets openBC apart. We see a time when no matter where you are you will be able to get together with liek minded business people to further you aspirations. Right now if you fly into any major city in Europe there is a good chance you could find a gathering to attend and we want to make this a reality globally.

In addition to what we have developed we are working on more and more features – our latest development list has over 300 major features and functions – and from the very beginning what have we been seeking to provide? We have always sought to provide benefits to our members that focuss on bringining people together and all that you see on the site is related to this goal of bringing people together wherever they are.

wherever you are. This is the second part of our comapnies soul and it expresses our understanding of global networking: It doesn’t matter if you are in Madrid, Spain, Guanzhou, China or in Dehli, India, your next business lead is online and your contacts are just a click away. Online networking brings effectivly a speed advantage to all other networking activities. As we all know that the world is flat we all face global competition, at the same time 80% of all business activities are national and people prefer to network in their mother language this is why we have so many languages and this is why we are increasing our physical presence and event around the world so that for you we will always be around the corner with a local in your country. Right now we have 18 managed countries and we have ambassadors in many more and over 2000 events per month are manged by the platform.  And there is more to come. Whereever should also means freedom of access/devices. We were the first networking site to offer mobile access. Our site is optimizied for over 200 devices already and we will continue efforts in this area.

So tell me what do you think about our new slogan?  I Look forward to taking with you about it.