It’s Hakan’s turn to introduce his "Piece of XING". Hakan Gönenli is our Country Manager for Turkey and works in our office in Istanbul.(click on the image to enlarge) Original post by Anne Roggmann ...

Per tutta la settimana, le strade di Milano, capitale mondiale della moda, faranno da sfondo alla straordinaria iniziativa promozionale di XING, destinata ad attirare l’attenzione dei passanti e a far scattare foto con i cellulari. In che modo? Grazie a piccoli biglietti adesivi gialli… Sì, sono proprio i post-it, indispensabili in ogni ufficio! Per scoprire come li abbiamo usati, continuate a leggere… Questa settimana abbiamo noleggiato una splendida Mini BMW e l’abbiamo ricoperta di post-it XING, sia all’esterno che all’interno. Può essere ammirata nei più importanti centri di affari milanesi: non passa certo inosservata! Sui post-it è indicato un collegamento per ricevere 1 mese di Abbonamento Premium gratuito su XING e i passanti possono semplicemente staccare un biglietto, portarselo a casa e registrarsi su XING quando desiderano. Un team di promozione in loco distribuisce anche volantini con un buono per bere un caffè gratis nel bar più vicino, offerto da XING! Abbiamo [...] Original post ...

All this week we’ll be promoting XING in Milan, Italy with a rather unique promotion that has been turning heads and getting mobile phone cameras snapping in the world’s fashion capital. How have we been doing this? With the help of small, yellow, sticky things – any guesses? Duh…Post-Its (what were you thinking?) – a business person’s best friend. How? Read on… This week we’ve hired a cute BMW Mini and completely plastered it inside and out with XING Post-Its. The mini can be seen in various business hot spots around Milan and is certainly an eye-catcher (see pics below). The post-its contain a link for 1 month’s free Premium membership on XING and passers-by can simply peel off the post-its, take them home and sign up on XING in their own time. A promotion team on the scene are also handing out flyers containing a voucher for a free coffee at [...] Original ...

This week, Félix, our new Business Development Manager in Barcelona, describes his first few weeks at XING: Félix, XING Spain: One day I logged on to XING, stumbled upon a job offer that matched my profile, clicked on it and a few interviews later, here I am. Before I joined the XING team in Spain, I worked as Corporate Account Manger at Regus, the market leader in global business centres. That’s where I discovered the power of networking. I chose XING because networking became my key success factor at my last job and because I was impressed by all the XING people I met during my recruiting process: Miriam, Karsten, Lutz and, of course, Lars. Everybody is just so passionate about the company and their job. My role as Business Development Manager involves the development of Groups, the Ambassador program, Marketplace and BestOffers in Spain, with a special focus on large-scale ...

When we announced the new XING Plugin for the Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, lots of people came back to us and asked for a Firefox version. And now here it is: The new XING Plugin for Mozilla Firefox. The new plugin allows you to highlight the name of a person or company on any website and find out how many XING results match your keyword. All you have to do is highlight a word, click the right mouse button and choose “Find on XING”. Here’s a quick example: I just read an interview with Lars Hinrichs and wanted to check if he’s on XING so I highlighted his name and started the search. You can see the results below. If you’re logged in to XING, you’ll automatically get a list of profiles containing the keyword you searched for. The new Plugin is available in the XING download section [...] Original ...

When we announced the new XING Plugin for the Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, lots of people came back to us and asked for a Firefox version. And now here it is: The new XING Plugin for Mozilla Firefox. The new plugin allows you to highlight the name of a person or company on any website and find out how many XING results match your keyword. All you have to do is highlight a word, click the right mouse button and choose “Find on XING”. Here’s a quick example: I just read an interview with Lars Hinrichs and wanted to check if he’s on XING so I highlighted his name and started the search. You can see the results below. If you’re logged in to XING, you’ll automatically get a list of profiles containing the keyword you searched for. The new Plugin is available in the XING download section [...] Original ...

We´re currently performing a brief maintenance measure. XING will be back online in a couple of minutes. We apologize for any inconvenience and wish you a successful business day. Original post by Daniela Hinrichs ...

Sebastian says: I am happy to introduce our very first Ambassadors to join the XING program from  Latin America!! Augusto Castañeda based in Lima, and Carlos Fabián Vega together with Federico Pacheco in Buenos Aires will soon be holding the first official XING Events in their respective cities. Anyone belonging to the Ambassador Groups "XING Buenos Aires" and "XING Lima" will automatically be invited to these exclusive networking events. All non-group members are of course very welcome as well!   The XING Ambassador Program is a worldwide network of dedicated users, who moderate their respective city group as official XING Ambassadors and hold exclusive networking events all over the globe where users network "offline". If you’re from Latin America, keen to moderate your local XING group and provide clear added value to members by organizing official XING Events, we’d be very pleased to hear from you.         Augusto [...] Original post ...

Sebastian says: I am happy to introduce our very first Ambassadors to join the XING program from Latin America!! Augusto Castañeda based in Lima, and Carlos Fabián Vega together with Federico Pacheco in Buenos Aires will soon be holding the first official XING Events in their respective cities. Anyone belonging to the Ambassador Groups “XING Buenos Aires” and “XING Lima” will automatically be invited to these exclusive networking events. All non-group members are of course very welcome as well!   The XING Ambassador Program is a worldwide network of dedicated users, who moderate their respective city group as official XING Ambassadors and hold exclusive networking events all over the globe where users network “offline“. If you’re from Latin America, keen to moderate your local XING group and provide clear added value to members by organizing official XING Events, we’d be very pleased to hear from you.   Augusto Castañeda  [...] Original post ...

This week Patrick is up to tell us a little bit more about the Investor Relations department at XING. (click to enlarge) Original post by Anne Roggmann ...