Welcome to our official feedback forum. Do you have an idea or recommendation to make Naymz a better product for you and the entire community? Let us know! If you have a specific bug or something that needs immediate attention, let us know at customerservice@naymz.com.
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64 votes
import profiles etc from Linked In planned
We should be able to import the profiles from Linked In. Recreating information is unneccessarily time consuming and not necessary given modern technology
This is something we definitely plan on doing in the near future. Many social networks are looking to solve the problem of making data portable between networks and we plan on being at the forefront of this.
- tdrugan -
136 votes
Cut the fees. Make it free like LinkedIn. I will not pay.
You want my info, you want me to stop everything to build a profile. You want me to promote this to friends and colleagues. Then you want us to pay to use this site.
There is no spare $ in the budget for sites like this.
All I can say is ... Nevermind. I'll stick with LinkedIn.Like LinkedIn, most of our tools and features are free. However, LinkedIn also has a premium service which is $199.50/year.... http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=business_info_more
While LinkedIn is a great tool for keeping in contact with people you already know, members have to pay a minimum of $19.95/month to reach out to other individuals whom they don’t know or dont share a common contact with. Naymz encourages and empowers our community to extend their networks and meet new, reputable professionals whom they have common interests with.
We are attempting to take a different angle on Professional Social Networking by adding layers of identity verification, social reputation, and online promotion tools. Here is an overview of some of the features that makes us unique from LinkedIn… http://www.naymz.com/micro/compare
Before assuming we are trying to “nickle and dime” you to sign-up for our premium service, I encourage you to take a closer look at what we are offering:
• As part of our Premium Service, Naymz will provide detailed visitor reports which will give you additional information about who visited your profile. This include location (city, state, country), where they found you (google, yahoo, etc.), the IP Address (which will often be associated with a particular company), and name (only when it is a fellow Naymz user and they have their permissions set to allow others to see them). This is something that neither LinkedIn nor Plaxo offers.
• We also will go out and pay for custom sponsored results (advertising) for your name on Google, Yahoo, and MSN. This assures that when someone searches for you on the search engines, they can find information that you control at the top of the results. This is something that neither LinkedIn nor Plaxo offers.
• Included with the Premium Service, we will pay for and acquire a personalized domain name (http://tom.drugan.name) and email address (tom@drugan.name) that links to your profile. This also helps your profile rank highly in the natural results of Google and other engines. This is something that neither LinkedIn nor Plaxo offers.
• Naymz also will pay for a Trufina Identity Verification and background check and place a badge on your profile so that visitors to your profile can be assured that you are the person behind the page. This is something that neither LinkedIn nor Plaxo offers.
• We will also remove all advertising from your public profile and from your account when you are logged-in. This is something that neither LinkedIn nor Plaxo offers.
All of these items cost us money to provide to our members, and as much as we would like to give these away from free, we wouldn’t be in business very long if we did. We have a good percentage of our members who are using our premium level service and seem to find it pretty useful.
I hope this sheds some light on our service and intentions. If it hasn’t changed your mind at all about Naymz, we understand and wish you the best of luck over at LinkedIn and Plaxo.
- tdrugan -
22 votes
Put more info about NAYMZ in the email invitations planned
Invitees are sometimes put off, as in a) "oh no, one more social network!" b) "yikes, what is this?" c) "gee, am I going to have to write a reference?" or d) "pay money?" So, please place some assurances in the standard invitation email to set our contacts at ease and encourage them to go through with the minimal (at least) rep scoring.
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8 votes
Import Profiles and Contacts from XING en Plaxo
We should be able to import the profiles from XING and Plaxo. Recreating information is unneccessarily time consuming and not necessary given modern technology.
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3 votes
Change your 'reputation' model
In the Naymz world, my professional reputation is based on volume. In the real world reputation is more linked to quality than quantity. The nagging to improve my 'reputation' is honestly a bit annoying. While I understand the need for Naymz to proliferate in order to be successful, lowering my score because I don't have sufficient volume (as Naymz grows) truly degrades the notion of 'reputation' into something more akin to gamesmanship.
If real world reputation is not what Naymz portrays, it has no value to me.
Anybody can create an identity for themselves or for someone else and claim anything they want. How do we know the person behind the profile is who they say they are? How do we know they are trustworthy and truthful in their claims?
The basic idea behind Naymz is to allow users of our community to establish and improve their online reputations, and thereby doing so they will improve their online networking capabilities.
Each user on Naymz is assigned a RepScore, which is a confidence index that we assign based on 3 levels of criteria: Community Verification, Profile Completeness, and Identity Verification. This score is intended to give users the opportunity to establish and improve their online credibility/trustworthiness. In addition, this also provides other members of the community a way to evaluate other users and their reputations. Users build their Reference Network with friends, colleagues, and/or classmates whom vouch for their reputations as well as the information that they claim about themselves on their profile. An individual's RepScore is not only dependant on the amount of references one has, but also on the RepScores of each reference. It's as much as about quality as it is about quantity. We equate it to Google PageRank for reputation.
Your RepScore level is relative to the scores of all Naymz users. As more people join Naymz and existing members work to achieve more RepScore points, this can impact your RepScore level. Here is more information about how RepScore is compiled and how you can improve it...
http://www.naymz.com/about.action?section=repscore
- tdrugan -
3 votes
use custom domain in premium promotion
Currently the "Premium Promotion" feature has "www.naymz.com" written all over it at the bottom. Change that to my.custom.name domain!
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4 votes
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3 votes
iPhone application???? Really Needed
Can you please create an iPhone app for Naymz. Currently this is now starting to replace the blackberry and i cam constantly surfing on the iPhone but an App would help, Linked IN have already done this!
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8 votes
Increase number of Endorsements to 'Unlimited'.
Currently only allowed to display 10 Endorsements. This is a limitation on being able to advance Rep Score and Reputation. Member should not have to 'pick and choose' from any Endorsement and should be able to display them all.
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1 votes
have a readable privacy policy
If you want me to bank my reputation on the site I would like to see a summary of your privacy policies and how you're protecting my info.
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5 votes
If you click on the endorsements they are covered up started
If you click on the endorsements they are covered up by other stuff on the right in FireFox. Please correct this error. Thanks! ( did not find the "fix this" section so I posted it here)
This is an issue in Firefox 2.0 due to some changes made to support Firefox 3.0. We are working to correct the issue, but upgrading to Firefox 3.0 will resolve the issue for you immediately.
- tczupryna -
7 votes
Make it clearer how to unregister from your web site!!!!!!!!
This is the first item on our help page/FAQ section, which is available on every page of our site. http://www.naymz.com/about.action?section=help
Let us know if you have any questions.
- tdrugan -
3 votes
return view with networks' rep scores
I liked the view we had before the recent changes that allowed me to see the rep score for the individuals in my network, without having to go into each individual's profile. Please return the network overview that included each individual's rep score.
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3 votes
improve accuracy beyond just name matching.
Names are widely shared (e.g, Bill Jones), and your system does nothing to discern WHICH specific person it should focus on when getting search engine info, building reputation scores, rep networks, etc. I unfortunately share an identical name with a famous disgraced politician - strictly by coincidence - thus my own information is forever skewed by his more widespread and dishonorable reputation.
The more information you add to your profile, the more likely that the search engines will put that specific data in the results and that your profile will show up for more specific searches (i.e. czupryna skokie).
You can also control the description the search engines will display for your profile in your Account->My Search Engine Promotion section. (i.e. 'Co-founder of Naymz. Husband and father.' on my profile).
Please contact customer support if you would like more detailed help.
- tczupryna -
1 votes
U R 2 slow- My GB pipe cant wait 4 U. I'm gone b4 u resolve
U R 2 slow- My GB pipe cant wait 4 U. I'm gone b4 u resolve
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3 votes
Review "Stop sending erroneous emails" - not settings issue
To tdrugan - it is deceptive to consider "visits" by your premium service to be considered visits to a profile. Changing the settings will not correct the issue. I would recommend reading a book entitled "Satisfied customers tell three friends, angry customers tell 3,000: running a business in today's consumer driven world" - it has some comments on how this kind of thing can backfire. Sorry for starting a new thread but I was unable to comment on the existing one without joining Users Voice.
Thanks for contacting us. It sounds like you are insinuating that we send out false visit alerts to deceive our members. This could not be further from the truth. We do not and have never sent visit alerts out unless someone actually visits a particular profile. We also filter out any visits that come from our office IP address or the IP address of search engine bots. Again, you can opt out of receiving these alerts at anytime by following the email settings link found at the bottom of all email. Please feel free to contact me directly if you would like to discuss this further (tdrugan@naymz.com).
- tdrugan -
1 votes
Don't make it free. You need to invest in you.
Invest in Your Brand.
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1 votes
Not send a gentle email if you want to remove someone.
No sending of notice if someone is deleted.
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0 votes
Change the invitation system
Instead of having people asking me to join my reputation network(which I am hesitant to do) have people invite me (or me able to invite) to their reputation system - like in linked in - that sounds better to me
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1 votes
make it easier to add a single user. Where's the link?
I cannot find how to add a single email address. I cannot find where to email a help desk to ask. This site is a pain in the neck to use. I don't have hours to spend here. I don't need this message posted, but I also don't see how else to get a message to you!!!!!
Hi,
There is a contact form directly below the feedback box on our help page you used to post this message.
http://www.naymz.com/about.action?section=helpAre you attempting to add your own email address, or invite a single contact?
- tdrugan -
1 votes
Fix Reputation Repair form
Unablee to send completed Reputation Repair form. Please advise
We are sorry if you are having problems with our form. You can email us directly at pplus@naymz.com.
- tdrugan -
3 votes
Transition to UserVoice s/b seamless, ie no login to comment
I previously created a new idea when all I wanted to do was comment on an old one. UserVoice would not allow me to do that unless I signed in. I do not wish to join UserVoice, however, if they are going to provide a service to you, they need to make it easy for your customers to use and if you are serious about getting feedback, I would think you'd want that also. Thanks
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0 votes
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2 votes
Support link order control
The Edit Links function doesn't provide for any way to change the order of links displayed in a Profile .
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2 votes
Add a button to Google Toolbar
One click buttons are timesavers
