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 [...]
Jun
7
Catching up with LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman is an interview with LinkedIn founder and angel investor Reid Hoffman. Mercury News venture capital reporter Connie Loizos talks with Reid about where he sees the social networking space headed, as well as his investment strategy these days.
May
25
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 [...]
May
23
LinkedIn has started something called LinkedIn For Good. The introduction goes like this:
With a network of over 11 million professionals spanning the globe, LinkedIn is an immensely powerful platform. A few of us here decided that we should be doing more to leverage the network to promote positive social change, and LinkedIn For Good is [...]
May
17
I found the Logo Design Blog while browsing MyBlogLog. Logos are interesting and I found a post titled Design Inspiration: 56 Most Creative Logos. The logos shown, with links to the companies, are a mix of unknown (at least to me) and well known logos.
Firefox is there, I like the fox and the globe. Rollyo [...]
May
15
Penelope Trunk from Brazen Careerist is guest blogger at JibberJobber and has posted about Writing Lists. She writes I am a list writer. I do it by hand. Every day.
I write lists by hand too, it makes me think more about what’s in the lists than when I just enter something into a computerized list. [...]
May
6
Vincent Wright has posted An Open Letter To Linkedin. The letter starts like this:
We’re confused. Some of us are downright dismayed. Even some renown evangelists among us have stopped evangelizing. And others are watching to determine whether or not they should continue evangelizing. Still others of us are intensely looking at other networking platforms [...]
May
3
I have a blogroll in my menu and I also have a category called blogroll where I post about blogs that I like. A link to a blog does not say anything about why I put it there so I add some explanations.
What I look for in a blog is:
inspiration, in content and/or design.
food for [...]
Apr
21
I have added the functionality to subscribe to my blog using email. My provider is FeedBlitz, a service I have tested on other blogs. All you need to do to get my new posts in your mail is to click the FeedBlitz-button in the side menu or click on this link.
Another option for subscriptions by [...]
