Since we launched UnLtdWorld just over a year ago, providing social entrepreneurs with tools to help your projects, organisations and businesses succeed has always been core to our mission.
We’ve noticed that some of you have been representing your companies on UnLtdWorld in a variety of ways – for example through personal profiles, groups and services.
Based on this we thought it would be helpful to create one consolidated way for you to let the world know about what your business is doing, and are delighted to announce the release of Company Profiles.
What is a company profile?
It’s a profile page, like the individual one you have now, but for your project, organisation, business or enterprise. Company profiles aren’t just for large companies – they are for anyone running a project - no matter how big or small, indeed any one individual can set up a number of company profiles representing all the different projects they work on.
Through a Company Profile you can let others know the key information about your venture and connect with people that are interested in your work, and through their enthusiasm, advice and support can help your work become even greater.
Company Profiles give you the opportunity to bring all the services, resources, events, products, photos and videos that your business generates into one easy to find place. For those of you just starting out, you can use the company profile as a place to direct friends, supporters and potential funders to without the expense of building and hosting a website yourself! For those of you who already have a website, this is a way of forming long lasting relationships with your stakeholders and supporters. It’s a way for you to engage people, and interact with them in more direct way. Anyone who likes your company can “follow it” so they can keep up-to-date with your recent developments.
We’ve also decided to make specific elements of Company Profiles public-facing – this means members and non-members of UnLtdWorld can see parts of them! The public-facing elements will include fields that are specific to the Company Profile, such as about, location and external links. All associated content (such as photos and resources), comment wall and user profiles remain private. We believe this gives you the opportunity to showcase your project to the widest possible audience and at the same time protect your privacy and security.
We also plan to launch vanity urls for Company Profiles, to make it even easier to share the page with your contacts.
We have lots in the pipeline for Company Profiles and see these pages becoming central to the UnLtdWorld platform over time. In fact, we plan to integrate tools and services to foster better collaboration and information sharing between and within projects; add to the Research Lab profile information for projects and make this available through an API; and finally integrate into Company Profiles tools to connect projects to skills and financial support.
Most importantly, please let us know of any tools or functions that you think would help you to showcase and enhance your work better. We want to incorporate your ideas. You are the people who know what works best for you and we’re here to help you succeed!
All companies are listed in the “Do Business” section, and you can set up a company from there, or get started right now!
We look forward to your feedback.
-- Alberto