For a period of several years before the International
Development Research Council ceased to exist, the organization
maintained a directory of associate members online.
It's purpose was to provide access to resource
and service providers for the active
membership of IDRC, specifically, to facilitate business
networking. The directory was a free-access resource
and useful to business
decision makers, enterprise
developers, leaders of fast-growing
companies, entrepreneurs, small
business owners and site
selectors without regard for whether they were members
of the organization. This, of course, gave IDRC
Members on the Web* a high value for those of the organization's
associates who were actively wanting to build and maintain relationships with
prospects.
The last issue of the IDRC membership directory (active and associate members
names and addresses) was used to add a couple of thousand records to the Global
Registry of Contacts. Also, at least one associate member profile online
was salvaged (page up) and reproduced in The Network at
the time
of the demise of IDRC, not for nostalgia but to keep the spirit of
the organization's
focus on networking alive, as reflected in the following statement:
Perhaps the most important networking is that which is done on a person-to-person
basis between individuals with special skills and experience ...
CLICK HERE for more quotes reflecting thoughts about the value of
networking.
*Members on the Web was published online as a reference
without attention given to up-dating it after 1998. The link, Leaders
in Development, was broken and never fixed. The Network was
called on continuously to deliver on its search
promise regarding the file until it was finally
removed from the Web in 2006.
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