I am already a member of some business networks I found quite useful
and some are quite exclusive, however, I'd like to enter to
asmallworld.net and I am currently looking for someone to "invite me"
at the condition it is really worth and if I can really share some
useful information (leisure, business). I'd like to avoid waisting my
time with unuseful talks. 2 friends of mine (and a trusted member)
already recommended me without success.Thanks for contacting me if you
can help me out.

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 31 Jul 2005 04:16 PDT

Dear Spendrup, 

What is it that you want Researchers to do? Find ways to get
invitations? Find forums where people who might have invitations hang
out?

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Clarification of Question by spendrup-ga on 31 Jul 2005 05:41 PDT

I'd like to be in touch with different mentalities, people over the
world and share advices for things like vacations (luxury resorts...),
places to go in different cities, share some business tips or contacts
with people in same activity like me (finance). All this, with quality
and through a selective bunch of people like asmallworld.net looks to
offer. I'd like the idea that you have to provide your real name and
not hide behing a nickname, furthermore, the fact that "respect" in
the way you talk to people is very important there (otherwise you may
be banned) is a good idea. My "trainee" has recently been invited and
thanks to him,I could found old friends in Germany, Sweden and USA and
would like to get in touch with them by my own and not through someone
else. I'm already a member of LinkedIn or OpenBC but the purpose is
more professional than recreative.
So far, I never found any forum where people officialy say they are
member of asmallworld.net since it is a selective network and want to
remain as such which I definitely like and accept as such.

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 31 Jul 2005 05:58 PDT

So, what do you want Google Answers Researchers to find/research for you?

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Clarification of Question by spendrup-ga on 31 Jul 2005 07:20 PDT

No, someone else reading the "Google answers" capable of confirming me
it is worth and "invite" me.

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 31 Jul 2005 07:40 PDT

Spendrup, 

I'm afraid that Google Answers is no forum, but a research service
(and in any case, it is not allowed to posr personal details, such as
email addresses here, so this will not be effective).

Would you like some addresses that will lead you to places where
people who *might* have an invitation might hang?

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Clarification of Question by spendrup-ga on 31 Jul 2005 07:50 PDT

Oh sorry for that, i didn't know. Sure, it might be helpful. Thanks

Spendrup, 

I'm afraid that although I have found few suitable forums, the
"admission" policies of aSmallWorld changed and they lately demand
50(!) invitations from members. So, I doubt it if these forums would
be helpful for you, unless you know some 50 members. More than that,
since members have been excluded (to a new community, "aBigWorld", for
any indiscretion, I doubt it if many would be willing to invite a
stranger).

Read about the latest policies: 
The Virtual Handshake
http://thevirtualhandshake.com/wiki.htm?page=aSmallWorld  

Wired
http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/posts.html?pg=2

There are also alternatives to asmallworld like outorin.net, but you
might find it even harder to get a membership on this site...i guess
you just have to wait...

Thanks to all, I'm now in and it's exactly what I expected, it's great!