A method for interactively collaborating across several related but independent online social networking communities. Members of each networking communities share a common background or profession, such as being part of the medical, legal or banking industries. Each member has a profile associated with his or her networking community, by which they can interact with other members of the networking community to share contacts, documents, or other productivity functionalities. Members can also interact across networking communities via their networking profile. For example, a doctor who can use his profile from the medical networking community to interact with a lawyer who has a profile on the legal networking community. By promoting cross-community interaction, each group is able to increase their ability to communicate or share ideas and work product via the plurality of networking communities.
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