XING Guatemala and the 200th Ambassador

XING has successfully been recruiting Ambassadors around the world for two years. Ambassadors moderate official regional XING groups (click here for an overview of the regional Ambassador groups) and regularly organize networking events. The Ambassador program adds an offline dimension to networking on the XING platform. Every year thousands of members meet up at official Ambassador events with the motto “Start on a personal note, and soon you’ll be in business”. Some examples include the summer festival held recently by the XING Community in Munich or the networking event at the Kiel Week festival. In 2008 over 50,000 XING members participated in more than 700 of these events.

Deniz Seebacher, XING Ambassador No. 200

New XING Ambassadors are continually joining the ranks and new regional groups are continually being created around the world. In June we welcomed the 200^th Ambassador, Deniz Seebacher, in Guatemala.  She tells us how she ended up becoming an Ambassador:

“I have been a XING member since 2005, but I really started using the business network intensively when I moved to Guatemala for personal reasons in 2009. I was looking for new contacts in a country where I hardly knew anyone. My search for German-speaking members in Guatemala City didn’t return many hits, but I wrote to a few of them. That’s how, in addition to meeting two people who have become very good friends of mine, I got to know Christoph and his company Officient, which led to my first local project. Since Christoph and I value XING as a networking platform and wanted to use it more intensively, we started looking for contacts on the local market. At the time, XING was looking for Ambassadors in Central America. So we decided to become Ambassadors and start up the XING Guatemala group.

XING is not yet very well known in Guatemala, but networking is a part of the local culture. That’s why we made it our goal to get the local networking structures in Guatemala online, which would also make it possible to network internationally. The motto of the first networking event here was “Let’s put Guatemala on the map of international networking” – a quote from the first group posting by Sergio Aragon, XING AG.

Of the approximately 50 participants who were there, only a few had come directly as a result of the XING invitation. A lot of them were there because they had heard about it from someone they knew. But by the end of the evening, I was out of business cards and everyone there knew what XING was. Word of mouth has brought a lot of new members to the group.

The first official XING event in Guatemala.

Of course, being a XING Ambassador takes a bit of time, but every minute is worth it. Within just two months I had established many new connections here in Guatemala, as well as a few international contacts with other Ambassadors.
Christoph and I are delighted to be able to represent XING in Guatemala as Ambassadors and we congratulate the rest of the 200 Ambassadors around the world.

I also always enjoy hearing about new Ambassadors and their stories. So here’s to the next 200 profile pictures with orange triangles!