“Visitors to your profile” is one of the most popular and useful functions available on the XING platform, and there are various ways to gain access to this information:

-          Via the Powersearch function: Members who recently visited my profile

-          As an RSS feed

-          As a box on your homepage (Find out more about the homepage options)

If you look at the list more closely, you will notice that it not only contains people, but also the reason why they viewed your profile. Non-members who view your public profile are stated as arriving there from an “External link:” followed by the corresponding address, which in turn allows you to see where your profile is linked to online. (more…)

Due to maintenance work, the XING platform and our blog may be offline on Saturday 6 February 2010, between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m Central European Time. We would like to apologize in advance for any inconvenience caused and hope you have a good weekend.

Since the beginning of 2009, I’ve been the Customer Care Director here at XING AG. Our Customer Care team is made up of 34 associates, who tend to the needs of our members in eight different languages. In contrast to many companies, we don’t outsource our support to a call center; it’s right here at the headquarters in Hamburg. This means that our support staff is much closer to the actual product, and can get in touch with the other departments if necessary, for example if a support request arrives for a feature just released. (more…)

A few of you might have already noticed: Surfing with Firebug, the Firefox extension particularly useful for developers, reveals our ever-innovative path when it comes to getting new talents on board.  The moment you open up the Firebug console, our screen welcomes you (click to enlarge):

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Yet another week has flown by and it is time once again for the release update. Today we’re going to take a closer look at the customized Company Profiles. More and more businesses are discovering the benefits of their Company Profile for themselves. At the same time, increasingly numbers of members are being naturally drawn to these pages as the word spreads. More than 4,000 members are already following the company updates of Lufthansa AG, for instance. (more…)

Dear XING members,

Sooner or later everyone has something particular they’re looking for, or has something to offer that other people will be interested in. XING is a great way of matching up demand with supply in this sense. I’ll be looking into this in more detail in today’s MaximiXING post as it is something with the potential to bring many benefits to members. To keep things as brief as possible, I will not go into the search alerts again. You can find tips and tricks about this feature in a previous post. I’ll be leaving out  events, Company Profiles, groups, articles and the group member search today as well, for brevity’s sake.

First things first, you should be sure to fill in the “Wants” and “Haves” fields in your profile. Quite obviously, your “Wants” refer to all those things you are looking for and require. This could include terms like job commissions, orders, a new challenge, a building surveyor, project sponsors, and much much more besides.  Your “Haves” field is just as self-explanatory and might include things like consulting expertise, SAP experience, New York apartment for sale. The list just goes on and on! (more…)

At center stage of today’s release is the launch of a new OpenSocial app. The Management Model App released today is the first OpenSocial application on XING from a Dutch company. This makes a total of 19 applications from 8 countries running on XING. Read the guest blog posting by the founder and director of ProvenModels to learn more about how to get the most out of the Management Model App in your everyday work.

As we do every Wednesday, we made a few adjustments to the platform this week. These include a number of nearly invisible, hard-to-detect performance tweaks. Two visible changes this week apply to the XING References feature. Up until now, if you wanted to change or delete a reference you gave someone else, you had to click around quite a bit to do so (First go to your profile -> References -> My Contacts‘ References -> Contacts I have acted as a reference for). We’ve now shortened this path considerably: just go to the person’s References page, and you can edit or delete a reference directly there. (more…)

Editor’s note: This article by ProvenModels-founder and Director Willem Moolenburgh is part of a series following the launch of the XING Partner Ecosystem in which the developers of the OpenSocial apps have the opportunity of presenting their applications.

ProvenModels is happy to announce the launch of the My Management Models application on XING’s platform. Business professionals are now able to access our concise management model summaries while leveraging the social benefits of XING’s network. The application also enables users to locate, connect and engage with other members who may not be easily found through the regular search criteria.

What is My Management Models?

The My Management Models application provides access to management theories and principles from leading business thinkers, such as Peter Drucker (“Management by Objectives”), Igor Ansoff (“Product Market Matrix”) or Michael Porter (“Five Forces”). Each management model is accompanied by adjustable and practical PowerPoint slides. Users personalise their XING profiles by selecting interesting management models and can easily connect to other XING members who have selected the same model. (more…)

Editor’s note: We’re happy to publish this guest blog from Ms. Kathrin Wieland, CEO of Save the Children Deutschland, and urge anyone who can to support the project.

Just hours after the earthquake in Haiti, our teams went to work coordinating the emergency assistance efforts and handing out supplies. Groceries, drinking water, medicine, and hygiene sets to reduce the risk of a medical epidemic were passed out. Working for the United Nations, Save the Children is building safe protection zones for traumatized children.

We estimate that two million children are currently in serious danger. Over 170 Save the Children employees are already at work, and more are on the way. We are particularly concerned about reports that young children are running through the streets, confused and disoriented, and sleeping outdoors, surrounded by corpses. In dramatic situations such as this, children can fall victim to attacks and kidnapping. We want to do everything we can to improve the situation quickly. (more…)

They call it Social Trippin’ – next weekend I’ll be travelling from Istanbul to Berlin, where Turkish Airlines has invited us to a special event at the Kempinski Hotel Bristol Berlin. Social Trippin’ is a new series of social media meet ups, where bloggers, social media specialists, Internet marketing experts and web gurus from around the world get together. And XING Turkey will be there. The opening event will be on January 23 in Berlin, with further events planned in Barcelona and Istanbul.  The agenda is set to include keynote speeches, workshops, and, of course, networking and intercultural exchange galore. Bloggers, online journalists and other opinion makers from the Turkish Internet scene will be in attendance in Berlin.

I’m looking forward to meeting up with Turkish and German bloggeres, and am curious to find out more about the Social Trippin’ concept. By the way, there are still a few spots left – if you’re a blogger and would like to take part in Berlin, please send an e-mail in English right way to my coworker Pelin. Put this in the subject line: “Registration Social Trippin‘ Berlin”.