Just discovered CIMAsphere or returning to check out what's happening? Take advantage of the options for filling out your profile and let others know more about you!

Sounds fine in theory, you might say, but what's in it for me? Here are five reasons why filling out your profile will reap rewards...

Profile details - Top 5 Benefits

(1) As the community grows larger, better profile information like your location, your interests or your photo allows others to distinguish people with the same name.

With the benefit of hindsight – looking back to when CIMAsphere launched in July 2009 – it’s clear that predicting the success of a group on an online community like this is more of an art than a science. Some common group building blocks are reliable predictors though. One such building block centres on the etiquette of being a good host.

Welcome to our new regular item on CIMAsphere where we celebrate those group leaders who have played an active part in making CIMAsphere a vibrant, active community. There are over 50 groups on CIMAsphere - many of them student and member-run - and some are really buzzing.

This September we're offering CIMA members the chance to blog on CIMAsphere, whether that's a one-off contribution or the beginning of something more regular!

Hi all,

I wanted to give you an update about changes we are making to the Groups. We have over 30 groups on CIMAsphere now, and some of them are getting really big, while others are growing gradually.

The student blogger competition has closed.

Many thanks to all who entered. Winners will be announced at the end of August 2009.

Welcome to CIMA’s new online community - CIMAsphere. We’ve been busy behind the scenes these last few months building the community and thinking through ways to make it relevant and useful. But enough about us, because CIMAsphere is all about you.

If you look around CIMAsphere you’ll see there are a lot of areas for CIMA students and members to congregate in, explore and discuss the very specialised (and more general!) things that make up the management accountant’s world. If you feel there’s anything missing, let us know.