Powerful Social Website Platform Strengthens Commitment to Community Focus and Its Members

It was announced yesterday that Beyond.com, Inc., the world’s largest network of niche career communities, had acquired Orbius, a powerful social website platform that allows businesses to create and govern their own full featured social or professional networking community website for their members, employees or customers.

So what does this acquisition mean?  Well, according to Beyond.com, CEO, Rich Milgram this acquisition shows Beyond.com’s commitment to it’s community focus and will allow its members to evolve beyond the employment experience into new ways to connect and engage throughout their career, business and life. Milgram, also added that “This is an exciting time for business professionals and we want to help them as much as possible.”
 
Thought of as a “Facebook for small businesses,” the Orbius platform and technology has been very successful in providing flexible, scalable and search engine optimized social websites enabling businesses to provide content and community rich website features to connect and engage users through forums, blogs, calendars, videos, expert columns, feeds, groups and other forms to encourage personal and business interaction.

“For years, Beyond.com has remained focused and committed to providing our members with valuable and relevant communities in which to connect and interact across a variety of industry, geographic and specialty areas,” said Milgram. “Our members are embracing these communities and are hungry for more content and information and want to create their own online persona and evolve their personal and business networks. We continue to develop new ways in which to facilitate this evolution and the Orbius platform will enable us to further this vision.”