Hello Mr. Sid and greetings to all
Well first, I would like to express my most sincere thanks to you for taking action to start this discussion.
Second, the question about services and use of this place and what role Cite is playing in the life of users and professionals today, actually cannot be express easily. I personally have numbers of contacts from this place and outside world that have appreciated and expressed themselves about Cite Network (CiteHR, CiteSales) and feel great to be a member of this site.
The CONTRIBUTION, what Cite has given to our professional world today with almost every possible sector, field is amazing, and people hardly found the same with other professional sites. I do not think there is more need to say because Google and other search engines are already saying a lot to us in our daily life in every minute.
In addition, we are getting more and more new members daily, is the live example but still as we all know and talking here about that there are lots of things which we require to develop, and the first one is RECOGNITION.
Once I remember when I was talking to a friend regarding HR Generalist profile and career (She is from Media Sector), she admitted that Cite has helped her in many things but still are not using it regularly because of a reason but found it really helpful. She read the post and discussions and did the same copy-paste whenever she required even without using her membership (Signing in) as Mr Divekar has also pointed out here.
There were two things what I discovered while our conversation: Cite is really helping to people, not only the people who are member but to all who are not a member of this site yet. Second, that she never cared to spend time and found numbers of threads on a single topic and the question was repeating constantly (personal and shared experience by other friends), which always put her in confusion that never made her to spent much time on Cite, but the other side is that she found it really helpful at some point.
I immediately expressed myself to her and asked her to spend some good time at cite and share her views/ experiences with us. I did not say much but I promised her that once she will start communicating, certainly would say thanks to me and she did the same subsequently.
Cite is not just good but best place for us today and helping to many people however, we cannot ignore the problems what we having day by day that making our place dirty. I would use “DIRTY” bcz of unprofessional elements (Jokes, Poem and other as stated above) being posted here which really needs to control and for that development/changes are required.
It is good to know and understand the problems of users, so that, the required changes can be made which will certainly help us but my question is how can we make our cite best and top professional site with Professionals Recognition and Ethics with not just specific location/sector/ field but for all?
Cite.com is not location specific but an INTERNATIONAL forum as we having users across the Globe, which is not just for the people who are from HR world but for everyone with the purpose of Career/ Education Advice, Knowledge Sharing and much more. But, can we really see us today at this level which we wanna achieve so far with the present contribution, and how much big role are we playing, what we more need to develop to reach every professionals house are another few questions. Moreover, I seriously wanna see this and hoping to have the day soon.
Furthermore, here we already are having forum options for specific subject/post but how many members are actually using it properly is also a big concern. I also agree with you Mr. Sid that sector specific issues can be solves by Tagging, which is available here.
Mr. Sid thanks once again that you have shard your story that how you have developed this place and have given us a good network and for the Introductory Video on YouTube.com I personally feel great to be a member of Cite and cannot say how much I learn in my daily life because of CiteHR.
Your statement “If it can be used to create power for the influential people, the same can be used to empower the people themselves.” is one of my new learning today.