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"Konnects is a new social networking tool designed for business professionals looking to become part of a larger community of interconnected groups.  You can also use Konnects to create your own organizational network, similar in concept to Ning.\nWith Konnects, you can create groups, participate in forums discussions, post events, meet others, and join other communities.  As with most business professional networks such as Xing and IT Link, you can indicate what you're looking for from the business networks within Konnects.  Include your work history and experience, start a blog, and share your personal interests as well.  The main component of Konnects is its Communities feature, which lets you join other networks.  So far these seem painfully contrived, and joining one is a confusing matter, as you'll be directed to a membership page requesting that you choose a plan and enter your credit card number. Return to your personal home page, though, and you'll see you've been added to the community after all.\nUnfortunately, the whole of Konnects probably won't prove useful for business networking or otherwise.  The design leaves much to be desired, your personal homepage is cluttered and poorly organized, and all of your communities look exactly the same, save for a name change at the top of the page.  The biggest factor lacking from this type of a network is the ability to toggle between communities from your navigation menu, instead of having to return to your profile and choose another community view. \nKonnects only offers basic functionality for free, and will charge you for things like promoting your profile throughout the site (why?), and adding events to the calendar.  That being said, you'll notice it's difficult to find other users within the communities you've joined, because only those that have paid to be featured will be displayed.  The one good thing about Konnects is that the site does support flash widgets.  This is increasingly important for business networks as we continue to see a convergence of business networking with traditional ideas surrounding social networking, as with LinkedIn's upcoming platform.\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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