Madison Who’s Who

What is a Whos Who Registry?

Like everything else in the 21^st Century, the century-old Who’s Who professional registry is sounding, looking and behaving a bit differently these days.

First published in 1899, Who’s Who in America was intended to “chronicle the lives of individuals whose achievements and contributions to society make them subjects of widespread reference, interest and inquiry.” For many years, the Who’s Who represented the “men and women who were influencing the nation’s development.” To be registered was to be recognized for achievement and accomplishment.

The Who’s Who listings began to pave the way for an upsurge of more socially inclined Blue Book registries. These popular bound volumes were less reflective of accomplishment and more suited for promoting interaction between upper crust socialites.

Over the years, the Who’s Who message began to change. Of late, the book is more a compilation of persons willing to be recognized and have their identity referred to mass marketers. Typically, a biography now includes birth and parentage information as well as education, creative accomplishments, civic achievements, political and religious preferences, a career biography and address.

Who’s Who – the future

Times have changed. Like the 21^st century, the professional world is now linked through a broader, re-defined platform. This platform employs Web 2.0 and social networking online to assure members a responsive opportunity to connect.

LinkedIn and other online professional networking applications owe some of their existence to their leather-bound predecessors. The idea of a who’s who directory online isn’t a new one, but there are well-established, major players that stick out above the noise.

Madison Who’s Who Directory Foremost in this revolutionary process is Madison Who’s Who. Madison combines the best of both worlds by recording member’s biographies in a stylish, leather, printed registry and providing those members with internet platforms to interact socially and professionally.

Madison Who’s Who provides its approximately 275,000 members’ a state of the art, easy to access, easy to use social platform for establishing and maintaining contact with accomplished professionals from around the world. In addition to their leather bound registry, members receive a username and password to enter a secure portal that opens to a world of benefits, information and connections.

Edit: Madison Who’s Who is now over 300,000 members strong. Check out their new Twitter account here.

And so the Madison Whos Who Registry goes Web 2.0.

Madison Who’s Who members have access to powerful search tools, on-line networking, a classified section and current world news updates. Members are able to update biographical information as merited. Member Registry is respected and only available to Madison members.

Note the abundance of actual professionals holding down real world jobs as well as internet-based pros with, again, real jobs and genuine desire to connect professionally. That’s what a lot of online directories only talk about in the finer print to appear more useful and important to professionals than they really are.

Madison Who’s Who hosts multiple forums on diverse categories and members are encouraged to interact through polls, queries and discussion groups. Members can request e-mail notification for relevant topics and can link to web logs or URL’s.

Check out some of the feedback from Madison Whos Who members in this story at Propeller.

Nothing New Under the Sun

Lots of people think that professional directories started on the web. In fact, they’ve been around for over a century. They were just waiting for the web to enable them to reach far greater audiences.

Given the growth of networks like LinkedIn and Fast Pitch, along with their “anything goes” internet vibe, there’s still a bit of prestige attached to the Who’s Who-style directory when that directory has its roots in the century preceding Web 2.0.

Madison Who’s Who encourages business and individual professional memberships. Members report satisfaction with career developments and exposure. The result is a user friendly membership community specifically designed to bring professionals together in the 21^st century. Like the original Who’s Who, this meeting place has an eye to the future.

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