The Wonderful world of Networking ... with like minded people

The wonderful world of networking.... with like minded people 

About 3 years ago I had the brilliant idea of creating a social network for live music fans to do business together. Short a few Angel investors, programming and web architecture skills, and an extra 10 hours in a day. I shelved the project, hoping sometime in the future it would be done.   Luckily other people have thought of it. Jambase has social networking aspect to its site so you can see who else is going to a particular show, but that’s not really “business networking”. On Ning you can start a community but basically it’s just you and your friends, its not that easy to spread the word. 

Ahh, comes my salvation. Linkedin opens the door and makes it easy to create groups (for you LinkedIn old timers you know how difficult it used to be).  Now there is a Deadheads with Ties , Business and Professional DeadHeads and Pro.PHISH.ionals group on LinkedIn. Now you can find people who you may have gone to a show with and didn’t realize you could help one another in your professional lives. Or look for other people in your industry that love the same music.  

I have always enjoyed doing business with like minded people. Theses groups are there to help facilitate that. In case you don’t know, there are alumni groups, non-profit, corporations, and pretty much anything you can think of, and its all for the purpose to doing business with like minded people. 

Now I just need them to buy the name I thought of…