Some openBC stats

by Volker Weber

Contacts:
# contacts: 741
# contacts of my contacts: 101356

Rank in my country:
by number of contacts: 431 (highscore: 50)
by successful invitations: 19 (highscore: 10)

Mitch is still ahead. And my trial Premium Membership at openBC is valid until 19/09/2009. Which is three years from today.

Basic membership is free. Would you like to join?

Comments

Was hat man denn davon außer dass man von Headhuntern genervt wird?

Und wenn man Einladungen von den "richtigen" Leuten annimmt, kann man seine "# contacts of my contacts" schlagartig verdoppeln... Schöne Grüsse an die Jäger und Sammler :-)

Wolfgang Schwerber, 2006-09-19 11:06

Im Kindergarten wurden Karten gesammelt, heute geilt man sich an einer statistischen Nummer auf... :)

Nicolas Kübler, 2006-09-19 11:20

Ich empfinde es als angenehm, wenn ich irgendwo meinen "Dunstkreis" aus Familie, Freunden und Bekannten irgendwo nebenläufig notieren kann. Dass jeder Kontakt dann seine eigene Daten aktuell hält, ist das genial einfache an dem Konzept. Die Möglichkeit alle Kontakte (und Termine) zudem mit "tags" versehen zu können, ist eine weitere gute Unterstützung. openBC ist nützlich und einfach zu verstehen und zu gebrauchen. Das ist das was zählt.

Die Anzahl der Kontakte ist mir dabei völlig schnuppe.

Wenn ich mir die bisherigen Kommentare so ansehe, fällt mir der aktuelle Spot von Jamba ein. Umgemünzt auf OpenBC würde er in etwa so lauten:

OpenBC - love it or hate it ;-)

Open BC ist wirklich ganz nett. Das Kontakte sammeln ohne das man wirklich kontakt mit Ihnen hat, untergräbt leider die Idee dahinter.

Andreas Nebel, 2006-09-19 16:46

I love OpenBC, its really a good source of my personal contacts and I made a lot of business until today.

I use OpenBC, but everything seems to require premium membership to work (e.g searching for companies and so forth). The model is wrong: show me the value, then I’ll pay. Does that make me bad? ;o)

I also use LinkedIn and interestingly, actually get connection requests from people I know on that—never happens on OpenBC.

@Moritz: I've never been contacted by a headhunter via OpenBC. I guess this depends on how you use it. If you don't give away too much information to the public and don't follow a "hunter and collector" with your contacts (i.e. only confirm contacts you really know), then this shouldn't happen.

P.S.: I really don't think that vowe follows such a hunter and collector approach. He simply is well connected.

OpenBC => XING:

http://blog.openbc.com/2006/09/ooops.html

Andreas Muth, 2006-09-24 00:36

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