myJournal Public Preview Journal

This week has been quite eventful at myJournal, as we are heading to a countdown of opening membership there are many areas to complete, this includes perfecting the virtual showrooms, company networking, and the other many additions to the system.

There are many ideas going into myJournal that will enhance a business profile, unfortunately only so many can be implemented from the start. As myJournal grows we will of course implement these features and add new ones.

This week we have seen several new members from varying business and professional backgrounds join us, some new postings, and numerous contacts being made.

myJournal is set up to promote a business, or an individual. A strong part of this philosophy will be for businesses to connect with each other. Although still in LIVE BETA members have already connected together for possible future business partnerships. One such connection was made from Oksana to Steve Sugden. Oksana is producing a new pair of hair straighteners and looked to connect with Steve about stocking them at the popular Pressies4Princess store. The contact has been made and Steve has a view to possibly retailing them.

Another post from Paul Arlott at Tolra Micro Systems about wasting money on SEO services.  Paul goes onto say:

…companies deciding to offer SEO as an extra without putting the effort in required to fully understand the marketing of a site. As far as I’m concerned a site has to be marketed as a whole, that is usability, appeal to the target audience along with both on site and off site optimisations…

Agreed Paul, SEO comes not just in optimizing one page and throwing a few links, but should be taken as a whole and all elements of the site included in the overall SEO prospectus.  After all the brain will not function for long without the heart!

One of our newest members is Manou Marzban , the academic marketing manager at Microsoft. Manou wants to promote lettings of his villa in the South of France for the summer months. He has added some beautiful images of the Villa Soleil to his virtual showroom.

This month’s news has been dominated by the presidential race for the Whitehouse, both Presidential candidates Barack Obama, and John McCain have accepted their respective party’s nominations. The battle commences! Talking politics, Ian Parker-Joseph a member of the Libertarian Party joined us and immediately posted a press release about the CSAS scheme. Ian is quite an avid blogger on the political front and we are looking forward to reading more of his posts.

Other new members include Karen Mayer and Nikki Smith from Current Digital an advertising agency based in Bournemouth.  Andy Vining joined from BluRoute and added an extra company HottoChoc that promotes healthy eating and weight loss through chocolate.

That’s a concept Andy, eat as much chocolate as you want and never gain a pound. Where do I sign…!

Who says you can’t find that perfect match, according Gil Avenaim online dating has taken off in a very big way. “getting to know each other online first has a lot of benefits” Gil is the director of Fast Match which is becoming one of Autralia’s premiere dating agencies.

We are looking to bring more members aboard to help us test, if you feel like getting involved with the myJournal community drop us a line at via the contact form.