{"id":2494,"date":"2008-07-25T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2008\/07\/25\/so-hows-the-online-networking-for-purchasers-going\/"},"modified":"2021-07-30T03:34:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T07:34:12","slug":"so-hows-the-online-networking-for-purchasers-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/so-hows-the-online-networking-for-purchasers-going\/","title":{"rendered":"So How&#8217;s The Online Networking For Purchasers Going?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Tuesday\u2019s mini-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/news\/purchasing-articles\">PurchTips<\/a> and here on this blog, I invited people to join our new SPSM Groups on LinkedIn and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>How\u2019s it going, you ask?<\/p>\n<p>Quite well, actually!<\/p>\n<p>After just three days, we\u2019re already up to 175 members of the SPSM Group on LinkedIn and 53 in the SPSM Group on Facebook. 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You\u2019re welcome to join us.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Tuesday\u2019s mini-PurchTips and here on this blog, I invited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.4 (Yoast SEO v19.13) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>So How&#039;s The Online Networking For Purchasers Going? - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/so-hows-the-online-networking-for-purchasers-going\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"So How&#039;s The Online Networking For Purchasers Going?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In Tuesday\u2019s mini-PurchTips and here on this blog, I invited [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/so-hows-the-online-networking-for-purchasers-going\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NextLevelPurchasing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-07-25T19:12:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-07-30T07:34:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/nlpa-images-072.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"724\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Galo Matagay\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@nextlevelpurch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@nextlevelpurch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Galo Matagay\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/so-hows-the-online-networking-for-purchasers-going\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/so-hows-the-online-networking-for-purchasers-going\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Galo Matagay\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#\/schema\/person\/72d094fab77892483dfa6e061cb27eaa\"},\"headline\":\"So How&#8217;s The Online Networking For Purchasers Going?\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-07-25T19:12:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-07-30T07:34:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/so-hows-the-online-networking-for-purchasers-going\/\"},\"wordCount\":122,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Procurement\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/so-hows-the-online-networking-for-purchasers-going\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/so-hows-the-online-networking-for-purchasers-going\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/so-hows-the-online-networking-for-purchasers-going\/\",\"name\":\"So How's The Online Networking For Purchasers Going? 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