LiveWorld appoints two new directors

May 14, 2008

This post was written in May 2008; specific information contained within it may be out of date.

LiveWorld, the company that eBay outsource the community discussion boards to, has appointed two new directors:

Barry Weinman founded the venture capital company Allegis, which helped over 70 private companies go public. He describes LiveWorld as a “pioneer and leader in social networking”. Bill Cleary is experienced in growing technology-based marketing agencies and founded the CKS Group responsible for launching the likes of Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon.com and Disney.

Social networking is the “cornerstone of relationship marketing for the 21st century” according to Cleary. Certainly devotees of the eBay discussion boards will be no stranger to just how many hours it’s possible to while away chatting about eBay and of course in part carrying out eBay support free of charge.

LiveWorld have a unique business proposition in creating bolt on online communities for companies. As well as eBay the work with AOL, Expedia HSBC, Kodak, QVC and many other leading companies.

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