How do companies use SemiNeedle?

SemiNeedle offers collaborative workgroups that you can sign up per monthly-fee basis. These workgroups can be publicly visible or be private and invitation-only based.

• Private workgroups: Companies use these private workgroups to collaborate with customers, partners and academic institutions. The workgroups are also ideal for professional associations, used by various committees and working groups. Use these workgroups to maintain ongoing conversation with users groups, key customers, resellers, distributors and collaborate on projects. In addition to many features built into the group mechanism, the dynamic polling mechanism provides an ideal tool to quickly assess the collective sentiment of group members. The integrated web meeting capability facilitates live meetings, cutting down on travel and other unnecessary expenses.

• Public workgroups: The public workgroups are ideal for “conversational marketing”. They offer the major web 2.0 technologies, blogging, forums, tagging, video and audio streaming, etc., allowing you to transform your marketing and customer support programs to the next “social” level. By hosting your public groups inside the larger community of SemiNeedle, analogous to an exhibition hall, you benefit from increased relevant foot traffic and gain excess to a larger audience that might be costly and prohibitive to generate on your own.

  To learn more about “conversational marketing” and how it could help you get ahead of your competition, we recommend a book on this topic, “groundswell”, by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, two analysts from Forrester Research, Inc. This book does a great job of describing the social computing groundswell and presents a series of helpful frameworks through which to assess its implications for your business.

SemiNeedle also offers opportunities for targeted recruiting and advertising.

What does SemiNeedle offer to professionals?

In today’s dynamic market, as professionals, we’re all too busy. Between email, attending meetings, searching for information or tracking key domain experts, most of us barely have enough time left to do what we consider to be “our real job”. That’s where SemiNeedle can help.

SemiNeedle can help you save time working on project, facilitate problem resolution and assist in your professional development:

• Time Saving: use the SemiNeedle workgroups to centralize your large projects, avoid unnecessary emails, stop fighting with spam filters, easily track and connect with global team members, access pertinent documents at your finger tips, and leverage past work
• Problem Resolution: no longer be at the mercy of expensive consultants or hard-to-find domain experts. Use SemiNeedle to access the global community of professionals to quickly assess the best route to solving your problems, while exploring the existing collective wisdom of the community
• Professional Development: Conferences are expensive and take away serious time away from your daily work. Instead, publishing online, in a forum where your colleague are present and accessible, at your own leisure, is a great alternative to self promote and build your professional stature.

Wondering who else is using the site?

Our members are employed at some of the largest semiconductor companies, materials manufacturers and academic institutions around the world. Here is a sampling of the diverse set of organizations represented on the site:

Register now and explore the value for yourself. To completely remove your registration information, send an email to admin@semineedle.com with the subject line set to “Unregister Me”.