Welcome to MIPWORLD MIPCOM Edition – the MIPCOM online community.
MIPWORLD helps you identify key contacts, present program and service products and get in touch with who will be most useful to your business. You can also use it to create a personal conference schedule.
This tutorial sets out a simple, step-by-step guide to making the most of MIPWORLD.
Learn how to:
- identify and attract the right contacts by adapting your personal and/or company profile
- get maximum exposure for your products by adding photo, video
- build up a personalized network of contacts using MIPWORLD matchmaking
- find peers and potential partners using the search tool
- identify newly-registered potential contacts
- create your own personal conference schedule
- contact and be contacted using your MIPWORLD Mailbox. You can keep your personal email address private if you prefer.
Minimum system requirements for MIPWORLD
The minimum system requirements for MIPWORLD are as follows:
- Your computer will need a 56K or higher modem with an Internet connection.
- You must have a valid e-mail address.
- Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4); Windows XP (Service Pack 2):
- Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
- Firefox 2.0 or later - Minimum Mac® OS X 10.3.9 or later:
- Firefox 1.0.7 or later
- Safari 1.3 or later
- Mozilla 1.7.12 or later
To generate maximum networking opportunities, you can access MIPWORLD both before and after the market.
Your Personal Login and Password will have been sent to you via email following registration. If you have lost or not received your login details, please click on "Forgot Personal Login or Password", or contact the registration department in order to point out your email address
This will allow you to:
- build up a network of contacts closely matched to your business
- see the resulting contacts and related opportunities displayed automatically on your MIPWORLD homepage
- be identified as a potential contact by other MIPWORLD users when they are searching for participants who match their areas of interest.
2. On your ‘My MIPCOM’ page, either click on ‘my profile’ to the left, or the ‘personal profile’ link in the center of the page.
Highlight activities and genres in the box to the left and add them to your profile by clicking the arrow pointing to the corresponding box on the right.
If you change your mind, highlight what you want to delete from the right-hand box and click the arrow pointing back to the left.
Click on ‘save’ to go back to your profile page and see the changes you’ve made.
Choose the activities and genres that you’re most specialized and interested in. The more tightly focused your choices, the more effective will be the contact network that MIPWORLD builds for you.
You can modify your company profile online by clicking on My Company in the left hand navigation menu, or on “company profile” in the center of the My MIPCOM page.
Then click on ‘Update’ on right of My Company the page.
In the "My Company Profile Update" form you can change your company information, upload a logo, or choose a new main contact for MIPCOM.
Here you can browse through pictures to upload your Logo. Picture size can be up to 250x250 pixels, 50 Ko and 72 Dpi (JPEG or GIF format files).
Once you've filled in your details, click on ‘save’ to see the changes in your company profile.
- give maximum exposure to your products
- generate interest from other MIPCOM participants.
To showcase your program or service, simply complete a product profile with a short description. You can add 3 images and 3 videos (5Mo max, MPEG - AVI - MOV format) per program profile and 3 images for per service profile.
Go to ‘My MIPCOM’ and click on ‘Product Profile’ in the center of the page – this will take you to ‘My company’ page.
Then, add a product by clicking on the following links depending to your needs:
- Add a Service
- Add a Program
Once you’ve filled in the form and uploaded the images, click ‘Save’ to see the changes in your product profile.
- build a network of contacts drawn from a pool of over 4 000 companies, 12 120 MIPCOM participants from more than 80 countries.
- contact and be contacted by your key business target
The database will automatically identify the right contacts for you to meet as well as identifying you as a potential contact to other participants.
Once you’ve filled out your personal profile, go back to ‘My Home’ to see the network-building opportunities MIPWORLD has found for you based on the genres and activities you have selected.
Sort through the profiles by category:
- Companies
- Participants
- Programs and Services
- Conferences and Events
- adds participants’ email addresses to your MIPWORLD mailbox address book
- allows you to keep lists of potential partners and projects on your "My Selections"' pageYou can also choose to find potential partners yourself, by using MIPWORLD´s simple yet exhaustive search engine.
You can then bookmark participants, companies and product profiles.
- Keyword
- You can choose whether to search for companies or participants
For a quick start on a basic search, fill out the Keyword field. You can choose whether to search for compagnies or participants.
2/ An advanced search adds the following to the basic search terms:
If your search is based on Activity, please select the Domain first. These Domains changed from MIPCOM 2007 to MIPCOM 2008 so the activities.
- Domain MIPCOM 2007 or MIPCOM 2008
- Main activity or Activity (automatically generated regarding the Domain of the market you have selected)
- Continent or Country
- Participant type
- You can choose whether to search for companies or participants
To go to an advanced search, click on ‘Search’ to the left of the MIPWORLD homepage, and then ‘Advanced search’ to the left of the search page.
Please select a Domain in order to see the Activities available. You can choose whether to search for compagnies or participants.
2.See Save search
3.The search terms you entered are displayed here.
4.See your most useful potential contacts first by sorting by company name, country or participant type.
Click on a search result name to view its profile and bookmark it.
You can bookmark up to 1000 bookmarks.
Bookmark a company, a participant or a product profiles as you go through your search results and create your own shortlist. You can also save your search criteria to get FAST ACCESS to data each time you use MIPWORLD.
You can access your bookmarked pages and your saved searches from « My home » and « My MIPCOM / My Bookmarks ».
When you click on a search result, its profile is shown. This example is a company profile from a company search.
You can forward bookmarked pages by clicking on ‘forward profile’. This will take you to a mailbox ‘compose message’ page with a link to the bookmarked profile in the new message.
The Save Search function stores your search terms for you, so that you can quickly and easily repeat the same search in the future. This enables you to identify useful contacts newly-arrived on MIPWORLD since last year’s market, or since your last search.
When you’ve performed a search and have a results box for search terms that you want to keep for future use, click on ‘Save search’ in the top right-hand corner of the results box.
• A pop-up box will appear.
• Enter a title for your search and click ‘OK’ to save.
• You can then carry on creating new searches using different search terms.
Please note that "My Schedule" will be available mid-July, after the conferences programme publishing.
Create your own personalized agenda for the 4-day MIPCOM by selecting conferences and events. You can review your schedule at a glance by clicking on My MIPCOM > My Schedule. You can then print or download it into your MS Outlook calendar.
• Then search conference sessions by date, theme, format, speaker and/or keyword.
• To see a list of all conference sessions, click on ‘View all’ without selecting any search criteria.
Clicking on ‘View all’ or ‘Search’ will bring you to a results page.
Click on the arrows beside the ‘Date’, ‘Title’ or ‘Theme’ headings to change the order of the results.
Click on a conference session title for more details.
To add a session to your personal schedule, click on the relevant box in the ‘Add’ column.
Click on the printer icon to print a copy of your schedule.
A red exclamation mark means the timing of this event conflicts with another one in your MIPCOM schedule.
The MIPWORLD Mailbox allows you to send and receive messages to and from other MIPCOM participants without showing your e-mail address.
To compose a message, click on ‘Mailbox’ to the left of the homepage, and then ‘compose message’ below it:
This box is your address book, and includes the email addresses of the participants you have bookmarked.
Highlight the contacts you want to send your message to, then click
the arrow key to the box below, to add them to the list of recipients.
The lower box is the recipient field. If you change your mind and decide not to send the message to a particular contact, highlight that person in the recipient box, then click on the up arrow.
You can send messages to external email addresses by adding them here, but only if a MIPWORLD participant is also a recipient.
If you find it more practical, you can choose to display your professional email address on your personal profile page and receive incoming mail directly to your usual email address. To do so, just change your settings in My Profile > Update profile.
