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Viadeo – 2nd and last review

Posted by Volker in personal, social media on May 26, 2009

Ok, maybe I am rushing into things but I had another look at this Viadeo network I was writing about last week. And, I came to the conclusion to cancel my membership. Why?

You might remember my post about “how many web services do you need” back in September last year.

I still think that those are enough.

  • Facebook
  • Linkedin
  • Xing
  • Plaxo

    • I really don’t need another network that gets me connected to a “Trader from China”, “a couple in England with 2 connections”, “my friend who I have on Facebook and Linkedin” and a network that wants to charge me if I want to add a friend I have known for years.

    Sorry, it was good speaking to Viadeo in person and I like the idea of a local personal network. However, it just doesn’t work for me. I have my connections, I have 2 major networks and I have Facebook too. I think adding another service would just mean too much hassle, more emails and too much work. Instead of subscribing and using it properly, I would rather subscribe to Linkedin which I know brings value to me and I am still using it for free.

    Also, on that note. I got an invite from a friend to Likaholix. And, I have to say, this is another sharing side I canceled my membership. Not really using it. Sorry guys.

    Enough of bad news about new networks. Stick to what you know and what you know works. However, try new things and if you like them, use them and encourage others to use them. I tried but these 2 services just weren’t for me.

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    Viadeo – first review

    Posted by Volker in cb consulting on May 19, 2009

    Hello,

    After the summit last week I was asked by the guys from Viadeo to join the network. Their USP is to make sure that you can connect to local people in your city/country. At least that is how I understood it.

    There we go. I had a go and added my own company cb consulting to my profile. Since I am the only employee, which of course the system does not know, to suggest me to connect to other employees of cb consulting would not make sense. Never mind I thought, I put all my other work experience in. However, again, I found 1 match in my city and then mainly French “alternative contacts”. With the system being French I was not surprised.

    To find alumni from my university didn’t work either. All I got was a student at the university – not sure why someone from Aberdeen is actually coming up in the London network. Never mind, I now wanted to import my outlook contacts to see if anyone was there. But that is only possible by using Internet Explorer, not Firefox.

    Finally, I got the system to connect to my gmail account. After a few minutes I added about 1,250 contacts of which 14 were Viadeo members. Most of those were recruitment consultants and the other ones were part of my network at Linkedin and Xing. So there is no need to have an additional network for me really.

    As mentioned before, this is my first review. I will keep playing with the application but guess that I have more than enough contacts on other networks to add more and more social media playgrounds.

    What is your experience? What are your thoughts?

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