The aim of Pipeloop is to allow those in the pipeline industry to search for colleagues, as well as potential clients, based on global location and pipeline speciality. Within two years, the Professional Institute of Pipeline Engineers (PIPE) hopes that industry members around the world will be able to find any other pipeliner using the site.
Pipeloop Membership Manager Dan Lentell said “We felt that there was a need for a networking site dedicated to our sector, one that better represented individuals’ skills and experience.”
Three stages
Pipeloop is developing in three stages: profiling, networking, and grouping. The profiling stage has already been completed.
“Users can create a profile of their specialities from over 120 possible combinations. They are able to say who they are and where they work, and can provide a profile picture as well as a brief personal statement,” Mr Lentell said.
The networking stage will allow users to connect their profiles with those of colleagues and clients, enabling contacts to be kept updated when a client moves office or when a colleague moves jobs. Using ‘status updates’ pipeline professionals will be able to announce new products, services, and contracts to interested parties with a new kind of ease.
Once the grouping stage is complete, users will be able to form ‘Loops’ circling together colleagues with a particular facet in common.
Mr Lentell said “Loops will bring our sector together like never before. Perhaps they all work in the same region. Maybe they all attended the same training session or conference. A Loop could be a list of potential clients or members of the local branch of a professional association. The possibilities are limitless.”
Brought to you by the PIPE, Pipeloop won’t change the way that business is completed, however it will simplify how the industry communicates, making networking across the sector more cost-efficient and effective.
