WAcademia.edu is an American for-profit social networking website for academics. It began as a free and open repository of academic journal articles and registered a .edu domain name when this was not limited to educational institutions.
WAfterCollege is an online service that connects job-seeking college students and alumni with employers who want to hire them through faculty and career networks at colleges and universities in the U.S. The service uses a patented matching process to deliver jobs to job seekers, basing matches in part on a user's academic affiliation and field of study.
WALFA International The Global Legal Network Inc., commonly known as ALFA International, is a global legal network consisting of 150 independent law firms, including 80 U.S. law firms and 70 member firms in other countries. As with other types of professional services networks, the organization serves as a business referral and resource pooling network between member law firms.
WbeBee is platform and social network co-founded by Javier CR, Rafael García and Juan Imaz. The network was created to allow people to market themselves to employers, clients, customers, vendors and media in their respective industries. beBee allows users to network with each other through common personal and professional interests, uniting their personal and professional lives in one place.
WBlueLine Grid is a company that provides a mobile communication and mass notification platform built for interagency communication between civil service employees and private sector security teams. BlueLine Grid was created by Bill Bratton, the 42nd Commissioner of the NYPD, formerly the 38th Commissioner of NYPD, and Chief of LAPD with co-founders Jack Weiss, and David Riker. The company was founded in January 2013, while the BlueLine Grid mobile app was launched in May 2014. The platform does not require registration to join, but verification is necessary for public employees or partners to gain access to connections and information in the Grid.
WBusiness Network International (BNI) is an American franchised networking organization, founded by Ivan Misner in 1985. Currently BNI has over 270,000+ members in 10,000+ chapters in over 74 countries worldwide. Members meet weekly to discuss business and support each others businesses by sharing referrals. BNI claims to be the world's leading 'referral organization'.
WEllevate Network is a global community of women committed fostering and promoting gender equality in the workplace. The organization provides women and femme-identifying non-binary individuals with a community to lean on and learn from through networking, online and offline education, inspiration, and opportunity. Founded in 1997 to bring high-achieving women in finance together, the network now serves women across industries and around the world. Ellevate Network is chaired by Sallie Krawcheck. Its CEO is Kristy Wallace.
WEureka Streams is a free, open-source enterprise, social networking platform developed by Lockheed Martin. Activity streams and gadgets make up its core functionality. Content within Eureka Streams consists primarily of microblogs and internal and external web feeds. Users typically provide links to other content, such as wikis, blogs and shared documents housed in a content management system.
WGlassdoor is an American website where current and former employees anonymously review companies. Glassdoor also allows users to anonymously submit and view salaries as well as search and apply for jobs on its platform.
WThe Global Methane Initiative (GMI) is a voluntary, international partnership that brings together national governments, private sector entities, development banks, NGOs and other interested stakeholders in a collaborative effort to reduce methane gas emissions and advance methane recovery and use as a clean energy source. National governments are encouraged to join GMI as Partner Countries, while other non-State organizations may join GMI's extensive Project Network. As a public-private initiative, GMI creates an international platform to build capacity, development methane abatement strategies, engage in technology transfer, and remove political and economic barriers to project development for emissions reduction.
WH2biz is a private conglomerate in Italy, with operates in the media sector, logistics, publishing, fashion, industry and services. It was created by Luigi De Falco.
WIn Touch Networks is an online technology company based in Manchester, England. The company operates a networking and development platform for semi-professionals looking to enhance their careers. Its members have access to basic tools needed to do this including CPD accredited training, networking events, generic CV writing services and executive coaching.
WThe International Ombudsman Association (IOA) is an organization founded in 2005 with the purpose of supporting organizational ombudsmans. It was formed after the merger of the University and College Ombuds Association (UCOA) and The Ombudsman Association (TOA).
WLa Strada International (LSI) is an international NGO network addressing the trafficking of persons in Europe. The organisation was established in October 2004 and includes members from Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Moldova, the Netherlands, Poland, and Ukraine and an International Secretariat based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In each of the eight member countries the programme is implemented by independent human rights non-governmental organizations, working within the La Strada philosophy. Cooperation among the members dates back to 1995, when the first La Strada project started.
WLinkedIn is an American business and employment-oriented online service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Launched on May 5, 2003, the platform is primarily used for professional networking and career development, and allows job seekers to post their CVs and employers to post jobs. As of 2015, most of the company's revenue came from selling access to information about its members to recruiters and sales professionals. Since December 2016, it has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft. As of September 2021, LinkedIn has 774+ million registered members from over 200 countries and territories.
WMonster.com is a global employment website owned and operated by Monster Worldwide, Inc. It was created in 1999 through the merger of The Monster Board (TMB) and Online Career Center (OCC). It is a subsidiary of Randstad Holding, a Dutch multinational human resource consulting firm, and is headquartered in Weston, Massachusetts. It is known for its "When I Grow Up" commercial for the Super Bowl XXXIII, which features kids telling about their future status of dead-end jobs.
WMultidisciplinary professional services networks are organizations formed by law, accounting and other professional services firms to offer clients new multidisciplinary approaches solving increasingly complex issues. They are a type of professional services network which operates to provide services to their members. They operate in the same way as accounting firm networks and associations and law firm networks. They do not practice a profession such as law or accounting but provide services to members so they can serve clients needs. Their aim is to provide members involved in doing business internationally with access to experienced, tried and tested, reliable, and responsive professional advisers who know their local jurisdiction intimately as well as the intricacies of cross border business.
WMultilaw is an international professional services network of independent law firms. It was established in 1990 and comprises over 90 member firms in more than 100 countries. In March 2017, at the Lawyer European Awards, Multilaw was named "2017 Global Network of the Year". Multilaw was also ranked as an Elite network for the 7th year running by Chambers Global Guide 2021.
WmyGwork is a global recruitment and networking hub for LGBT professionals, graduates, allies, and organisations to promote diversity and inclusion in the workplace and beyond. It was created by twin brothers Adrien and Pierre Gaubert. myGwork is a Limited Company registered in the United Kingdom.
WNexTech AR Solutions Corp. is a Canadian augmented reality and communications technology company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. It provides videotelephony and augmented reality services through a cloud-based peer-to-peer software platform and is used for teleconferencing, telecommuting, ecommerce, advertising, distance education, and social relations.
WOnGreen is an online social and business platform committed to cleantech technologies. Entrepreneurs post plans to get connections, feedback and investment. Companies and schools can post intellectual property on the site in the form of patents that can be licensed or sold.
WProfessional services networks are business networks of independent firms who come together to cost-effectively provide professional services to clients through an organized framework. They are principally found in law and accounting. They may also be found in investment banking, insurance, real estate and architectural services. Any profession that operates locally, but has clients in multiple locations, are potential members of a network. This entry focuses on accounting, legal, multidisciplinary and specialty practice networks. Today members of these networks employ more than one million professionals and staff and have cumulative annual revenues that exceed $200 billion.
WRallyPoint is a privately held American company founded in 2012 by military veterans Yinon Weiss and Aaron Kletzing at Harvard Business School. The company is a professional network serving the US military and its veterans, and has been called "LinkedIn for the military," empowering military personnel to take greater control over their own careers. The community allows current military members and veterans to connect, explore career opportunities both inside and outside the military, and engage on topics important to the military.
WThe Real Time Club is a networking society for professionals with interest in IT and technology. The club is based in London and organises an annual dinner series with speakers on a wide range of topics from ICT, technology and science.
WSkillPages was a social platform for finding skilled people and had over 20 million users on the platform from over 160 countries. The CEO was Laura Shesgreen who was appointed after the company's co-founder and former CEO Iain MacDonald stepped down unexpectedly in 2013 due to sudden illness.
WThe Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is a professional human resources membership association headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. SHRM promotes the role of HR as a profession and provides education, certification, and networking to its members, while lobbying Congress on issues pertinent to labor management.
WThe Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) is a loose network of organizations who are "working along the same lines towards achieving sustainable sanitation". It began its work in 2007, one year before the United Nations International Year of Sanitation in 2008. The intention of creating SuSanA was to have a joint label for the planned activities for 2008 and to align the various organizations for further initiatives.
WSweatworking is business networking while taking physical exercise and so working up a sweat. This way of working originated in the USA and started to be promoted in London in 2012, where gyms offered facilities and sessions of this kind.
WUSERN, the official acronym of Universal Scientific Education and Research Network, is non-governmental, non-profit organization and network for peaceful non-military scientific executions and policy-making. USERN is established in 1 January 2016; the basic statutes of USERN was drafted on 21 January 2015, but officially inauguration of the statute was made on 10 November 2016, the UN Day of Science for Peace an Development, after signing by hundreds of top 1% scientists worldwide.
WViadeo is a Web 2.0 professional social network whose members include business owners, entrepreneurs and managers. Viadeo was often compared to LinkedIn, offering free access but not being able to compete with the larger corporation. As of 2014, the site had 65 million members.
WWorld Services Group, also branded as WSG, is a multidisciplinary professional services network of independent law, accounting and investment banking firms. It ranks as one of the largest among the more than 200 professional services networks in the world. According to the organization's website as of 2021, the network is comprised of over 120 member firms in 150 jurisdictions with 23,000 professionals. The global headquarters office is located in Houston, Texas.
WXING is a Hamburg-based career-oriented social networking site, operated by New Work SE
WZoom Video Communications, Inc. is an American communications technology company headquartered in San Jose, California. It provides videotelephony and online chat services through a cloud-based peer-to-peer software platform and is used for teleconferencing, telecommuting, distance education, and social relations.