We wanted to provide you an update on our current thoughts and status for the networking functionality. We also wanted to reach out to you for some insight and feedback. We'd be interested to understand what social networking sites you may be using today and what features you like and use (or would like to use) the most from these sites. The recently added poll on the site is also meant to help us prioritize some of these features.

At Convergence San Diego 2007 we announced networking would be available from the Finance Forum (and subsequent communities after that) in the few months after the event, however, after researching we have learned there is a LOT of great collaboration tools and features out there. We want to release the Networking functionality with the features which will provide the most value to you and have therefore chosen to slightly postpone the release in an effort to gather feedback from the community at large on what you would like to see included. Please share your ideas in this forum discussion. To help get your brain juices flowing, here are some items we are considering (but are not limited to):

• Networking:
• Create your own social networking profile
• View recommended connections based on profile attributes
• Search for other profiles
• Interact with profiled members (via community mailbox or working groups)
• Keep up to date with changes throughout your trusted network
• Invite individuals to join the network community
• View individuals connected to your trusted network connections
• Working groups:
• Communicate, collaborate and work together with a small subset of individuals from the broader community
• Could be public or private
• Add rich text content via blogs and articles, upload files or videos or post events
• RSS feed aggregation that is visible to members
• Content tagging
• Email subscriptions on any changes to content