Your UPworld profile is the best way to market your skills and services online. But how do you make yourself stand out from the rest?
MediaPost released an article earlier this month entitled “Picking and Choosing What We Pay Attention To.” Everyday, we are bombarded by tons of advertising messages, all seeking to catch our attention. [...]

Everyday, I encourage UPworld members to use the site to its fullest and to refer friends and colleagues to sign up too. If asked, “What is UPworld?,” I oftentimes find that the easiest answer is, “UPworld is like Facebook or LinkedIn, but it’s specifically for real estate, building, and design professionals.” However, with over 11,000 [...]

Do you have your own online brand? If you have joined any professional networking or social networking site like UPworld and set up a profile, then you have already entered the world of online branding - and it’s a must-do for today’s career centered professional.
So it’s time for you to take charge of your online [...]

Whether you signed up in April 2007 or created your account just an hour ago, WELCOME TO UPWORLD! I am the Marketing and Content Coordinator of the site, and I’ve made it my mission to help you get the most out of UPworld.
How do I intend to achieve this goal? Well, by creating this blog, [...]

I’m inviting you to a cocktail hour drinks networking mixer this Thursday July 31st in lower Manhattan. You should come. It will be fun.
We have the usual design, construction, real-estate crew making contacts, doing business and drinking $4 beers or $5 well drinks. Plus a whole new group of glamorous Asians is joining us!
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UPworld’s next networking event is a joint event with Oriented.com, a global network of international professionals interested in Asian business and partnerships, with more than 30,000 members worldwide. The event is on Thursday, July 31st.
We are excited to partner with Oriented and provide UPworld members with new networking opportunities to the Asian market. This UPworld-Oriented [...]

We just wanted to announce the launch of our exciting new Event World feature! It provides an exclusive opportunity for event attendees to find and network with other attendees prior, during, and following an event. If you are planning to attend one of our featured Events, then simply add your name to the event list [...]

The UPworld Blog has now been re-launched and integrated into the UPworld platform! The Blog is an exciting new addition that gives us the opportunity to better communicate with you. We can tell you about new features on the site, get your feedback on how we are doing, take your suggestions, bring up interesting industry [...]

Our team just wanted to announce this latest bit of press to our members. This is a sweet little article that RIS Media wrote on us when we hit the 2,000 member mark, establishing us as the first network of its kind to go cross-industry!
The article was entitled “UPworld.com Membership Passes 2,000 Mark.”
“RISMEDIA, April 14, [...]

I am on this panel to talk about how to be an effective networker (I represent the online networking perspective), and it looks like it will be a great turnout.
Here’s the official invite:
The New York Commercial Real Estate Women’s Network organized a panel of networking experts called NYCREW and You: “Effective Networking: How to Be [...]