In India more and more Professional Networking sites are coming in and not from just small scale start-ups but big brands too such as Times of India Group and Info Edge (company behind 99acres.com, naukri.com).

Here are few top Indian based Professional Networking sites that are making quite good impression over Indian audience.

Brijj.com is online professional network from same company who is behind 99acres.com and Naukri.com, the networking site launched in August 2007 and still in beta, has now gradually emerging as choice of people’s own pro-networking site.

PeerPower.com is another big brand supported Pro-networking community portal and little different to other networking portals in its peer portal. The portal is flagship of Time Business Online Pvt. Ltd. and its too in beta mode earlier it was in closed beta users mode.

SiliconIndia – It is one most rapidly growing professional networking although carry more of a news aggregating site’s features and traits. The home page consist of news pieces and stories rather than any professional network portal although when when navigated deeply will how you few good professional communities, groups, jobs and career related content.

Kreeo.com – Kreeo is a web based knowledge-based networking for companies, individuals and institutions who can build their own networks of knowledge along with tools such as news feeds, content sharing and forums etc.

ApnaCircle is one of the first Professional and career networking sites in India among all in this list. Sabeer Bhatia, Hotmail creator is among core producers of the portal. The portal has both social and professional networking features is frequently making changes to lure users.

SysInclude is professional networking for IT professionals, the portal at moment is by invitation only. Moreover the portal offer two kind of account one is individual and other corporate account, while the former one is free and later is paid and will have more features that will help manage the recruiting process and have better search capabilities for corporates.

Wapr.com – its is perhaps the most recent entrant in business & professional networking portals in India. Its a bit different portal in its niche, providing some really nice features for both companies and professionals as their different user-base and targeting them differently.

iProBook – This is one professional networking portal yet to be released though i found its underground URL from google here as iProbook in Labs. The portal has clean and user friendly UI and plenty of good interactive features and all about creating and managing your business/ professional networks. What impressed me is its clean UI and use of ajax scripts at perfect places.

TooStep is yet another professional community portal, however it gives an impression of some portfolio management tool or so, reason being fragmented UI and its content element. The portal is more about building community of professional and exchange, discuss, debate about topics, ideas etc.

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creADivity

creADivity has, within it, a marketplace which brings potential clients in touch with creative enthusiasts such as management and design students, free-lancers, professional designers and artists. The creatives can also collaborate among themselves using custom built professional networking tools made available to them by creADivity.

creadivity.com is TiE-EAP venture better known as Entrepreneurial Acceleration Program (EAP) of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). On revenue model side creADivity charges 15% from what creative people, freelancers, artists make money on the site while prices for companies, SMEs looking for services from creaAdivity ranges from humble 3000 INR to 20000 INR and the services includes communication campaigns, logo designs, web designs, poster designs, corporate stationary and other relevant industry based marketing services.

As per concept i.e. ‘CrowdSourcing‘ on global scale its already catching up in other corners of world with bunch of websites catering similar kind of services, one very recent one is CrowdSpring a platform for creative people to offer their services.

creADivity is a first of its kind platform atleast in India to bring the enterprises and creatives at same forum and produce an environment of competitiveness. Unlike most other creative/advertising platforms like Behance etc where the enterprises and creatives handshake happens based on bidding (pricing) and portfolio based screening, creADivity brings a unique advantage of competitions for selection thereby removing any chances of customer dissatisfaction or plagiarism. Also it aims to become an engine for an end to end advertising & creative service provider unlike most others who fill in one or two blocks of the entire chain.

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At Sunoh.fm users can view music library of their friends, enabling the users to discover new and relevant music in their social graph. Users can also join Fan club of artists they love, post messages on artist’s scrapbook, and favorite the music they like, thus enabling the users to reach out to their artists in a manner never possible before.

Sunoh.fm also provides Sunoh.fm-Desktop, a plug-in for Windows Media Player enabling users to stream music listening history and share it with their friends. With the aggregated music listening tastes of its users, Sunoh.fm not only delivers comprehensive and accurate information of top music in India but also promotes discovery of new and independent music by employing proprietary algorithms.

Moreover, for independent music artists in India Sunoh.fm provides them a digital distribution platform. Artists can signup, claim, and customize their profile at Sunoh.fm, enabling them to reach out to their fans in a very interactive manner. Sunoh.fm provides comprehensive set of free digital tools to artists including photo, video, and music uploads, using which they can instantly make their content available to their fans at Sunoh.fm.

Here again, this online startup desn’t seems to be good at UI (user interface), in short- very dull Home Page which in turn would fail to lure visitors/ users. Though the concept is good enough and unique among social network portals in India.

Startups from India must learn from web startups from Israel that focus more on 3 U’s (Usability, UI and Uniqueness) rather than overdose of Marketing. Even if concept is repeated, the UI should be user friendly so much so that could get more users than the original one.

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The community portal provide plenty of features like other portal of similar category do, along with features such as radio, free SMS, chat rooms similar to that of Yahoo messenger, applications such as games, videos, polls and events. The portal is convincing enough and few tweaks can bring it in line with what Hikut and Friendster doing in India.

In my opinion advertisements is too early for IndiaHangout.com, one should learn from Orkut, inspite of being a google’s offshoot, the social network in India started Adsense advertisements a year later before getting buzzword in crowd. The advertisements obviously distract users from being observed by users/ visitors sometime and could even annoy visitors.

BPOVoice is one social network exclusively for Indian BPO aka call center employees, the portal is just opened this month for public release. The founder of portal is from BPO background himself and tried to put the online community where people from BPO/ call center backgrounds can share their expertise and make friends, share photos and moments of their call center life.

But here again I would say there is enough room to get this specific community portal better in UI (user interface), usability and features that set this portal apart from other crowded space of social networks already.

ImIn-TV.com, is also social network for specific users segment and this time its people working in TV industry. The portal is business networking site for the TV industry, professionals around the world, offering free membership to all users and company profiles for TV industry related companies and organizations.

The community portal is brought by ThinkingSpace Technologies from Pune, the same one who is umbrella company for ActiveCity – an event management website.

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