A lot can happen on Bizzbug, and your Dashboard helps keep you in touch. At the top of the page your site notification messages are displayed. These range from simple welcome messages to people inviting you to join groups or wanting to exchange contact cards with you. The dashboard also displays notifications originating from forums and blogs, for example when somebody replies to a posting you made, or when you have registered to be notified about something. Other useful features on the Dashboard include quick links to the groups you have joined, and the list of users you have bookmarked - so you can reach groups and people you are interested in with just a single click.

The profile area is at the core of Bizzbug. Bizzbug profiles can contain multiple rich profile pages, general pages, content and powerful features - like blogs, forums, folders, albums and calendars - that you can add at any time you like. The first step many new users take is to create a great new profile page telling the world who they are or what they offer (to do this, simply click through to the Pages section in your Profile, and then select "New profile page"). In Bizzbug you can control exactly who can access every element of your profile using your permissions (accessible from the top-right menu links when logged in). So go on, create a public profile for business, some info pages about your favorite topics, and private forums to discuss office gossip and football!

On a social network, you add other users to your friends list. Bizzbug is more of a connection tool, and the neat thing is you can add anyone you like to your Network, which is kept private and works more like a contacts list. Adding other Bizzbug users is a cinch - simply click "Add as contact" on their summary page or invite them to exchange contact cards with you - but you can also upload your entire contacts list, for example using CSV or the Outlook Contacts Synchronizer tool. Once in your Network, contact cards can be organized by assigning relationships, such "Family", "Colleague" or "Customer", and custom tags such as "saturday football" or "Acme, Inc." which are displayed in a tag cloud. This makes it possible to find and select contacts in a few clicks, no matter how big your contact list, and then apply useful actions like sending email from your @Bizzbug.com address. Bizzbug automatically links contact cards to corresponding Bizzbug user accounts if they exist, and you can use your Permissions to grant access to your profile and other things to contacts that have specific relationships and tags.

One of the best features of Bizzbug, is that it allows you to create and manage any number of private and public groups for your needs. These function a bit like user accounts - each group has its own profile to which you can add information pages, blogs, folders, forums, shared calendar events and other items - and if your group gets big you can control access to its various parts using member tags, and even delegate administration responsibility by giving other members special tags like "Owner", "Administrator" and "Moderator" (the exact effect depends upon the group permissions you set). Tagging also gives you a simple way of keeping track of things where needed - for example, to run a paid club using a Bizzbug group consider keeping track of membership fees using a "Paid Up 09" tag!