Madison Who’s Who Blog

Madison Who’s Who is unique in a lot of aspects, yet traditional in others.  Yes, there are other professional registries that offer brief biographical snapshots of remarkable leaders and experts in commerce and the arts.  However, Madison Who’s Who also offer services that set them apart from other professional registries.
Madison Who’s Who Sets Itself Apart From The Rest.
Where Madison Who’s Who separates from their peers in the industry is that Madison Who’s Who has not been content with merely offering a beautifully bound leather book of members names.  We made every effort to bring that book and those names alive and accessible as never before to our esteemed membership.
Madison Who’s Who boasts a diverse membership base that includes artists, academicians, engineers, and realtors to name a few.  Providing those member’s biographies and credentials along with the multiple benefits of online exposure was just the first step of many that Madison Who’s Who has taken to providing Madison Who’s Who members increased value.
Now members are not only names in a book but are real and viable connections.  With the addition of a virtual bulletin board, Madison Who’s Who members have a forum where they can engage in business, chat about trivia, and mingle with professionals with like goals, life styles and ambitions.

More often than not partners in a small start-up company have planned on only networking locally, but small businesses today have to plan for an effective global networking strategy as well. Are your products or services marketable overseas and at what juncture do you envision expanding globally? Is your service executable via an effective global network and what are the implications for your business if you deal on an international level?
Businesses a decade ago, or even five years ago probably didn’t think in terms of effective global networking. Prior to today’s technological and telecommunications capabilities, effective global networking was the concern of the internationals or the rare local business that had commerce outside of the country
To those who make the cyber world their own, networking globally is almost standard practice. The web designer might live in England, but be designing a site for a Florida business while the content for the site is being written by someone in Canada. Because of the possibilities of effective global networking, it is possible for these three parties never to meet in person and yet execute a complete and successful project.

One of the keys to successful peer to peer networks and online networks in particular is that they require an object to connect them. For example people are linked in Flickr by photos, in del.icio.us by bookmarks and in the real world by the school they went to, their job or their hobbies. This is why, in “pure” social networking sites like Orkut and Friendster, Myspace and Facebook communities form.

Business are now learning to tap into the power of these communities to market their products, and drive traffic to their websites.  This is only one example of the power of peer to peer networks.
A professional peer to peer network committed to the growth of it’s individual members and the expansion of their shared vision will re-invent itself many times as it expands and modifies it’s configuration in service to that vision. When we speak of peer to peer networking on this website we are describing the social networking and business networking so essential to succeeding in today’s business world.  Having a vital and productive peer to peer network in business is, like a computer network, dependent on the power and energy that the participants in that network bring to the table.  A peer to peer network of lethargic and complacent people will never empower a career or promote a business.

Madison Who’s Who has professional listings for some of the world’s most prominent professionals, including attorneys.   It appears that finding a top rated attorney isn’t as easy as it once was.  As such, there are many new professional rating services out there that actually let users rate professionals.  The ratings are then made available to the public.  Think of it as the consumer reports of professionals.  One such professional rating website is lawyerratingz.com.  The site allows people compare ratings and read reviews on attorneys in their area as well as across the U.S. 

While this seems like a good concept at face value, I have my reservations.  Just as any surgeon might have reservations about operating on an attorney (for fear of a law suit), should users posting negative reviews of attorneys also be concerned that they are putting themselves at risk of a law suit?  I would personally think twice before posing negative comments online about an attorney.  Is what I have to say about a particular attorney worth opening myself up for a libel, or slander law suit?  In my opinion – it’s not.  But then again, I’ll just stick to Madison Who’s Who professional directory where I can find high quality professionals without the risk of losing the shirt off my back.