Get your views known

It's easy to share thoughts and opinions with your peers, thanks to CRN Online's forum

With the nature of news and the advent of Web 2.0, there is more and more pressure for interaction between all of us. The MySpace/Facebook phenomenon has induced that we are all seeking to get our names, lives and opinions known.

Web 2.0 is the use of the internet to drive user-generated content. Where users populate the internet with their comments, advice and help to the outside world, its advantage is that any experience we have is not unique. Therefore, someone, somewhere will have dealt with that before and be able to offer advice on whatever the problem or challenge may be.

But social networking sites, while fun and occasionally useful, do not help to drive business. They do not help a VAR discover what a little-known vendor is like to work with, and they cannot share business to business experiences about technology.

So as a channel player, where can you express your views, talk to your peers and get a greater understanding of the market around you? CRN has the most responded to online news section and forums in the UK channel.

With our up-to-the-minute news, CRN provides the daily goings on in the channel, and every single article is available for you to comment on, and share thoughts and ideas. Do you agree with the article? Do you think vendor x is right to change its channel model? The premise being that if the channel community shares advice and hints, it will make the community as a whole more profitable. Knowledge, as they say, is power.

Also, CRN has discussion forums, whereby end-users, prosumers, consumers and channel players can converse on topics ranging from who is the best broadband provider to how to overclock a PC. Forum topics include e-business, e-commerce and business, communications, business hardware, business software and broadband. By communicating with your channel peers, you could get the help and advice you need to take your business forward.