Jan
4
January 4, 2008 – 11:29 pm
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 [...]
Dec
21
December 21, 2007 – 8:27 am
I wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Here is a Christmas song.
Nov
17
November 17, 2007 – 12:29 pm
Part one in this mini-series is Be productive using pen and paper.
I continued my reading and went to Why techies are leading the back-to-paper movement. This is an excellent article by Douglas Johnston of DIY Planner. Since I already am using pen and paper I am not really part of the back-to-paper movement but it [...]
Nov
16
November 16, 2007 – 10:17 am
Even though I have worked with computers for 35+ years I still prefer to manage my own tasks using pen and paper. I have a paper calendar, not any high tech solution and when it comes to my to-do-lists I am writing lists - by hand. At work I use the calendar in Outlook for [...]
Nov
4
November 4, 2007 – 9:52 pm
It seems as if I managed to get the upgrade right. There are still some plugins that I need to check but I also take the opportunity to reconsider which plugins I really need for this blog.My old Prosumer theme would not work with the new version of WordPress so I have changed to a [...]
Sep
13
September 13, 2007 – 5:41 pm
Asides is usually a short post, a few lines, and sometimes shown in the sidebar instead of in the main post area. Over at WordPress they define it in Adding Asides like this:
When you lean towards someone and tell them a little bit of information, you are making an “aside” comment. In blogs, you can [...]
Aug
6
I have had vacation. The plan was to blog anyway but that did not happen. Now I am back again and blogging will again be on a regular basis.
Jun
28
I have today moved the blog from WordPress.com to A Small Orange. WordPress.com works great, the reason I moved to a host of my own is that I wanted more freedom when it comes to themes, plugins and widgets. The move comes with a price, cost for hosting and more work, but I think it [...]
Jun
22
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 [...]
Jun
14
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 [...]