Direct Message Fellow IPVM Members

By: IPVM Team, Published on Nov 11, 2015

With 10,000+ members and a who's who of leading industry people, IPVM membership provides interaction with many people who can help you. Sometimes, you would like to reach out to a person directly to ask questions about something they offer or provide.

To solve that, we have added direct messaging. Our approach is different. Here's how it works.

Next to a member's name on a comment, there will be an optional mail icon, like so:

Click the mail icon and a message page will be opened, like so:

Enter in your message and it will be emailed to that member. It will include your email address. If the person wants to respond, s/he can do so directly.

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Comments (12)

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Mark Jones

11/12/15 12:43pm

Nice Job IPVM.

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Brian Karas

11/12/15 01:49pm

This should be a handy feature.

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Ari Erenthal

Chesapeake & Midlantic | 11/12/15 02:03pm

Finally! Thanks, IPVM!

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Campbell Chang

11/12/15 08:49pm

I look forward to a perpetually empty inbox!

John Honovich

IPVM | In reply to Campbell Chang | 11/12/15 08:51pm

Lol, actually there is no inbox in our implementation, the message in full is immediately emailed to the recipient and when you reply it goes directly to the requester's email. This makes it easier for both parties to communicate.

Kris Hornung

11/15/15 06:31pm
Cool. Site just keeps improving

Carla Calk

11/16/15 01:49pm

This is a great tool, thanks IPVM

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Todd Morris

11/16/15 03:25pm

Nice work! looks great!

Might be interesting to link to a person's LinkedIn Profile...

John Honovich

IPVM | In reply to Todd Morris | 11/16/15 03:27pm

Hi Todd, thanks! We already provide a link on each member's name. For example, you link to your company's website but some member's link to their LinkedIn profile.

Display Your Personal/Company URL When Commenting

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Todd Morris

In reply to John Honovich | 11/16/15 03:36pm

Interesting, Do most members use this for linkedin or their biz site?

John Honovich

IPVM | In reply to Todd Morris | 11/16/15 03:39pm

Roughly speaking, since I have not analyzed data, it is split between linking to one's own website and one's LinkedIn profile. It's the member's choice, of course.

Btw, if you want other members to message you, you'll need to activate receiving messages (which can be turned on in the main post above).

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Paul Boucherle CPP CSC

11/23/15 02:54pm

John & team nice touch to add more value through direct communications and networking.

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