yup, quite true! everyones busy with new projects or developing and improving the old ones further! even am working on a new project too
It DP remains this way, I wouldn't be surprised. I mainly hang out here to read threads, though I take part on some discussions, serious ones.
Best approach when using forums is mostly come to learn, share knowledge when you can, but dont come to make friends, keep that outside of business everyone is your competitor after all. Most important of all Be Polite. Forget who is here and who isn't, it doesn't matter, dont get caught up in that. Forget the biggies, forget the self proclaimed gurus, the self proclaimed experts, because if you want to be moving forward you cant hang around forums all your life, their for the incubation period only.
Yes and No, Business that can co work together can both benifit, also many have helped me here and asked nothing in return. I plan to give some of that back if an ol timer like me can help anywhere I know part of my spill on directories is that business should advertise / suscribe into many quality directories to increase their business exposure and in that will be sharing the love.
I feel networking can benefit all involved, but not to the point of being naive and then spending too much time here or at other forums and forgetting who your business is supposed to be appealing to. Remember that we dont want a network of directories all interlinked to each other, and too many ideas replicated, otherwise they send out a combine harvester to clear the field if you know what i mean. The boundaries have to be placed somewhere.