New social networks are being released every day. What makes each one unique is their individual focuses and functions, though they all have the common goals to increase social relations and to establish contact with the professional world, educational target, medical network, travel communities, and so on.

The focus is usually developed based on the needs of the public. Opensoft, a Portuguese company, saw a need for the business environment, and they are trying to put this new model  in the competitive world of social media. Spreadd is a Portuguese startup focused on business environments and tries to differentiate itself from LinkedIn and Facebook, arguing that it is actually able to create opportunities to companies through the improvement of a collaborative environment.

Facebook offers big opportunities to reach target markets and great tools to develop marketing and communication with the public. However, there are limitations in developing sharing tools inside the company, since a social network is not a business-oriented network if it has other focuses.

LinkedIn, on other hand, is a business network. However, it allows people to connect to each other, but doesn’t solve the match problem between people and tasks, which Spreadd promises to do. The inefficiency inside of companies created by issues, such as employees repeatedly doing the same tasks and assigning the wrong employee to perform a task, can impact business performance.

It can be solved through a better sharing, communicating, and collaborating environment. The ambitious goal of the project is be a perfect network solution to small companies, big organizations, and even the ones geographically dispersed.

The network has been in the testing stage for the past six months, but it has already been seen as a solution to companies that are already using basic sharing tools, such as e-mail, instant message systems, internal networks, and blogs. Such tools have a time-gap between assigning the task and seeing the task completed, which is the issue Spreadd is trying to solve.

The Opensoft project will be going to Silicon Valley in California to accelerate the development of the business. It will be an important part of companies concerned with transparency, increase in opportunities, and creativity. There are high expectations coming from this developing season.

The goals the company have made will be able to help all companies interested in increase competitiveness through efficient information sharing. For companies that want to get a head start, they can sign up using a company e-mail address, which will be added to the Spreadd’s social network, and wait for a developed version of Spreadd to become available to the public.

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The Brazilian Project about a social network that connects students and universities started in June and has since then reached more than 700 schools and universities through their website. Translated into twenty languages and launched in more than 12 countries around Latin America, USA, Spain and Italy, the EDUFINDME will this year reach Europe and Asia.

EDUFINDME has turned out to be a perfect environment for increasing the range of academic relation between institutions and students. It is a platform that beyond the connections made also suggests matches between both parts; students and universities. This is really useful to people searching for good opportunities to study around the world.

It  is also possible to find search engines to be use by both sides with the goal of helping students save time. Instead of using traditional search engines that doesn’t target any specific groups and spend hours searching for universities and courses, this project aims to collect all the important information in one place.

And from the point of view of the universities, it is a great tool to help further their campus internationalization process. It is also a good place to spread the word about scholarships and avoid that good students go unaware about opportunities. At the same time it is perfect for good institutions to connect with the best talents out there.

The whole process of connecting is completely free and easy. First step of the platform is about selling yourself and creating an interactive profile that will attract the right people. After this, you should synchronize your profile with other social media accounts and try increase the network opportunities.

This step will make it even easier to get connected with others. Finally, you will be reached by schools and students. In order to have the best options you will also find different ways to sign up: as an student, as parent searching for the kids, educational provider and agencies.

There are a lot of good programs that go finished but unnoticed and because of this, everybody interested in an academic path with a global perspective and who search for good opportunities should give the EDUFINDME a try.

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