The Global Success Sandbox is a group at XING with focus on coaching. The group presentation says this:
The Global Success Sandbox is a place for
- coaches
- people who would like to find out more about coaching and what it has to offer.
- And for those who are looking for the perfect coach to help them [...]
XING started showing ads on personal profile pages. That resulted in a heated and intense debate in the German section of the Xing forum. Little trickled over into the English section which is strange. Xing claims to be international, yet the company management ignores the discussion in English. Instead Lars Hinrichs posted at the OpenBC [...]
Xing has launched My Network Value which is a tool that puts a money value on your network. In the Gallery you can compare your own network value, there are graphs by country and industry.
Personally I am not too keen on calculating a money value for my network. I get more from my network than [...]
Now you can show which online network you belong to. There is a LinkedIn Web Store as well as a XING Shop. It is a smart way for the networking sites to get some marketing done in the real world by people who (usually) can market their services too.
Xing wrote this in the information they [...]
I am catching up with my reading and also revisiting some posts. Here is a selection of posts that I find very useful.
ProBlogger has a guest post that has been submitted by Leo Babauta from Zen Habits (one of my favourite blogs) titled The 4 Pillars of Writing Exceptional Blogs. The advice sounds simple enough:
Create [...]
OPEN Business Club AG (the company behind XING) acquires Neurona, the Spanish market leader for online business networking. Neurona has more than 830,000 membes and is the largest contact online business network in Spain and Latin America.
At the OpenBC blog it says Our dedication for the Spanish Market rises: Neurona joins XING.
Following our first acquisition [...]
According to openBLOG OPEN Business Club AG, the company behind XING, will co-operate with the US company Zoom Information Inc.
ZoomInfo is a business information search engine that indexes the Business Web to quickly find information about industries, companies and people. The partnership will provide XING’s 2 million-plus members with immediate access to profiles on nearly [...]
Yesterday XING launched a new feature called Marketplace. At present Marketplace has the category job openings but there are inactive buttons for services and real estate.
All XING users can view postings and search the Marketplace. Posters have the option of allowing postings to be accessed via Google.
Since Marketplace is an integrated part of XING [...]
I am interested in intersections where knowledge areas overlap and create new possibilities. JibberJobber is an interesting mix of career tool, contact manager and a help in job seeking. Networking is great, a network is something one shall build and maintain before it gets urgent to need one. The advantage with a contact manager like [...]
Tony Karrer has a post about Discussion Creation Among Bloggers – LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups where he writes about he interaction of tools involved – Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. Tony asks three questions:
How do you use LinkedIn?
How do you use Discussion Groups?
What’s the interaction between them?
I use LinkedIn as a networking [...]
