What is the BNI Webring?

www.BNIWebRing.com, is the official on-line community for BNI. Chapters from New York and London to Toronto and Amsterdam can, with immediate effect, enable their members to directly communicate with colleagues in any BNI group, pass eReferrals™ across regions or even country borders and obtain accurate, up-to-the-minute details about the members, businesses and leadership teams of any other chapter at the click of a button.

Among the many exciting features of the BNI WebRing are:

• The ability for anyone – BNI member or not – to obtain the details of any member and their services. In practice, this means that any member may locate just about any product or service, within the BNI Business Community.
  
  
• The opportunity for members to send cross chapter eReferrals™ to others who are subscribed to the webring.
  
  
• The chance for members to obtain instant print-outs of up-to-date members lists,
  
  
• The facility to link the international BNI web community to their own chapter’s website.
  
  
• The benefit to individual members of being able to advertise their own company’s website, to thousands of BNI members.
  
  
• Testimonials can be attached to members details. This will help people in deciding their choice of suppliers.
  
  
• The 'Chapter Wish List', allows chapters to enter up to five professions, they are actively seeking, to join their chapter. Non-members can then use the The BNIWebRing™ homepage to find a chapter to join that would welcome them.
  
  
• Each chapter area has a Substitute List, anybody wishing to join a chapters list can add their name, once a name is authorised, it will appear in the list.
  
  
• The message room gives members an open forum on which to discuss business and networking ideas, for example, 'Does anybody know a new venue for a meeting in the Fort Lauderdale area' or 'Can anyone introduce me to a supplier of choice Scottish smoked salmon in the UK?'
  
  
• The BNIWebRing™ provides a direct email service between webring members. When members join they are asked if they would like to receive mail from other members on the webring, only these members will receive direct emails. As an example, a direct email might be offering a service, a special promotion or simply asking for assistance in sourcing a needed contact.
  
  
• You can now chat 24/7 locally or globally with BNI members who are subscribed to the BNI WebRing™. Whether you are looking for a service, product, help, information or just fancy a chat you will find a room to suit.
  
  You can even create your own passworded rooms, especially useful should you want to create a chapter room for a membership committee meeting. It is far simpler to have six or seven of your chapter members discussing chapter issues in the chat room than coordinating everybody to meet up after work or getting to gether on a conference call!
  
  The chat room is very easy to use and features the emoticons, audio sound fx, and icons called avatars that can be used to represent you in the chatroom.
  
  The chat room has been structured to reflect a large corporation!
  
  

For just US$235 an entire chapter gets a full years subscription to the BNIWebRing™, this provides you with an excellent tool to help generate more business for your members. If a chapter doubling in size passes triple the amount of business, imagine how much business you could gain by joining the hundreds of members in the BNI on-line community!