First Online Green Business Network Launches

GreenLinkz.com – online professional networking community for sustainable business practices

WAUKEE, Iowa – March 19, 2009 – GreenLinkz.com is building the most comprehensive online green business network to host professionals from all types of industry. “Green” and “sustainability” are global imperatives and represent a rapidly growing area of focus within business. GreenLinkz.com will fill an important market space by providing an online collaboration platform to facilitate conversation, promote innovation, recruit involvement, drive learning and foster B2B commerce in this market.

“With the explosion of online social networking we need a focus on the business-to-business side and especially on sustainable business,” states Kris Moorman, president of GreenLinkz.com. “GreenLinkz isn’t about the social aspect such as putting up vacation photos or following what someone is up to daily, it’s about a business network for collaboration, education, and engaging in all types of discussion related to sustainable business practices.”

The GreenLinkz community will create their own interactive content, bringing forth ideas, innovation, research and resources in a way that has not yet happened in the area of green, sustainable business. The future of a holistic green business model is in fostering interdisciplinary strategies that move our global business communities to real innovation through more advanced kinds of interactions. Today’s model is much segmented, fragmented and not easily shared. The key is to create a business model for holistic green rather than specialization that creates only small, incremental, limited change. GreenLinkz can nurture these ideas by enabling a new level of business collaboration between green professionals and encouraging a broader audience to engage via networking.

“Members in GreenLinkz.com can do far more than they can on other social or business connection sites because we are focused on actually creating dialogue, real connections and discussion, not just listings or vacation pictures,” continued Moorman. .”GreenLinkz members can set up Communities with forums and topics which imply communication, not just groups where everything is thrown in together.”

Communities can be public or private with members posting blogs, notes, creating forums and topics; members can also upload documents to share with their communities. The Career Center will be an area to bring together employers and potential employees as the infrastructure of the green economy takes shape.

A Million Member Challenge, www.millionmemberchallenge.com, has been set up to reach a goal of one million GreenLinkz.com members by the end of 2009. GreenLinkz.com will make a donation for every free member that joins, providing a person in Haiti with clean, safe drinking water for 25 years.

To find out more, please visit www.greenlinkz.com

About GreenLinkz.com:

GreenLinkz.com is an online network providing green business professionals the opportunity to create communities that collaborate, share and work towards real change through active dialogue. Greenlinkz.com is part of the VerticalLinkz portfolio of web sites whose goal is to facilitate collaboration and innovation in industries through the establishment of industry focused professional networks that leverage the power of online networking. The VerticalLinkz network sites are the place professional go everyday to network with others in their industry, read news headlines, find a job, transact business, continue learning and more. The networks include many features: social networking, industry-specific career services, industry media (trade news, blogs, vlogs, etc.), new B2B trade models, industry marketplaces, and new corporate customer service models designed around “user communities”.