Just a click away are practical solutions to industry challenges:
1. Broaden your network and stay connected to colleagues with dynamic member invitation, search, and tracking tools.
2. Interact with your network in communities, forums, the member lounge, wikis, and blogs.
3. Discover innovative product developments and post your own announcements with news briefs and innovations.
4. Explore, vote, and comment on articles and blogs written by leading experts and thought leaders.
5. Gain immediate access to editorial archives, featuring the industry’s best practice, solution-based, editorial content to help you do your job better.
6. Share research you’ve created such as white papers, case studies, and best practices.
7. Read our enewsletters and ebulletins to stay on top of industry changes--before they happen.
The uses are endless!
1. BCSolutionsMag.com is Your Social Networking Resource
Stay Connected
It’s easy to reach out to members. Once you have added a member to your contacts by using the Add Contact tab (click on My Contacts on the second menu bar at the top of the page):
• send the member an email by clicking on the Send Message tab,
• save her/him in your favorites folder (click on Favorite tab), and
• introduce the member to another one of your contacts.
Once a member becomes one of your contacts, you can see who their contacts are and easily network among them. Up to 10 members can even be designated as “favorites” so you can network even faster.
Invite your peers and colleagues to join in by clicking on My Messages on the second menu bar of the home page. Click on the New Invitation tab and invite as many people as you want to join. In the invitation message box you can even direct them to an article, community, or forum.
Connect and Broaden Your Network
Search for members using information such as their first and last name, or business information such as their title and company by clicking on Member Search on the second menu bar at the top of the page.
You can even search all members from one company, or by other fields such as city, with just a click.
Find out what organizations and networks a member belongs to, what expertise the member has, the articles and blogs he or she has posted, and review the member’s contact information such as telephone number, email, and business information by clicking on the member’s name or the Contact Data tab for the.
Invite the member to join your contacts by using the My Message menu (second bar at the top of the page). Or send a message to a contact, or introduce members to each other by clicking on the appropriate link.
Track Your Invitations and Contacts
Monitor messages and invitations you send and messages that you receive by clicking on My Tools on the second menu bar at the top of the page. You can also monitor who has accepted invitations to connect with you and who wants you to join their network.
2. Interact With Peers
Participate in Forums
Click on forums on the upper tab on the home page. Click on the forum of your choice, or start another by selecting the Create New Topic link.
Wikis
You can also contribute to wikis by clicking on the wiki tab on the upper menu on the home page. Read articles divided alphabetically, by category, or randomly by clicking on links under wikis.
Communities
By joining one of the 13 communities, such as health care, brokers, and work/life balance, you can quickly read content specific to your specialty. Navigate directly to your community and you’ll find relevant articles, blogs, forums, web casts, wikis, and press releases.
Access communities on the top menu bar and the left side. Feel free to participate in as many communities as you’d like.
Member’s Lounge
Interact with members by participating in the members’ lounge. Scroll down to the far right of the screen and click on Members’ Lounge. If you aren’t a member of one of the groups yet, click on the link under the title and join one or more of the groups.
Share your thoughts, ideas, and documents with members by clicking on tabs such as forums, stories, blogs, members, and newsletters. You can also read new forum messages and new stories that are related to your members’ lounge.
Blogs
Click on the blogs main tab on the upper menu at the top of the page. Here, you can read blogs and create one by writing in the user-friendly content management system. Make sure you read our blog criteria for instructions and restrictions (inappropriate blogs will be deleted).
3. Find and Add Product and Service Announcements
A round up of industry innovations are covered in the News Briefs and Innovations departments found on the left navigation. Each week several new announcements are posted. You’ll also find industry news reports about selected sources.
You can also add your own announcements. To add press releases, click
4. Give Your Feedback
Rate
You’re encouraged to vote on content. This allows others in the community to quickly assess the value of an article, case study, blog, or any other content. It also ensures that the most helpful content is the most popular. The more stars you have, the more valuable the community finds your content.
Rate each story by clicking on the small menu with five stars, located below the article’s headline on the right. You can rate the article by clicking on one, two, three, four or five stars, with five stars the highest rating an article can receive.
Comment
Disagree with an author? Agree? Have an example? Leave your comments about content by clicking on the comments link just above the star menu. Add your comments in the empty field and click on preview, save, or cancel.
5. Stay Up-to-Date With Informative Content Found Only on BCSolutionsMag.com
Use this website to read blogs written by industry experts.
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7. Becoming a Member of has its Benefits: access to monthly newsletters and bi-weekly e-bulletins filled with resources and information.
Benefits & Compensation Solutions newsletters are packed with valuable content, special deals, and announcements that you won’t find anywhere else. And our newsletters are great tools to share with your colleagues.
To view the most recent edition of Benefits & Compensation Solutions Today or to sign-up for it, click on the Features tab on the upper top menu. Click on newsletters and follow the links to begin reading the current issue and to register.
8. Need a Vendor Quote?
BCSolutionsMag.com is your source for vendors. Click on the Who’s Who Profile on the menu bar on the left navigation. Click on links to search by name or expertise.
BCSolutionsMag.com is a great way to interact with your peers and colleagues using the best social networking tools available. We look forward to delivering the information you need to stay on top of the fast-moving industry!
