It will be our 6th Birthday soon and our birthday celebrations are going strong. We’ve currently got great prizes up for grabs in our birthday sweepstake and a fantastic premium offer to get you started.

The party is still showing no signs of slowing down and this week we’re doing something very special for our members.
Open House at XING: All features – free of charge – for one week.

What’s open house?

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XING will be turning six years old this November and we’d like to celebrate in style together with our members. That’s why we’ve launched a birthday sweepstake for all members and exclusive special offers for XING Premium Memberships to mark the occasion.

Our birthday sweepstake: 78 great prizes up for grabs!

• 1 x MacBook Air
• 1 x Jura automatic coffee machine
• 2 x BlackBerry Curve 8900
• 3 x BlackBerry Curve 8520
• 5 x iPod shuffle
• 60 x 12-month XING Premium Membership

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We’re giving our Blog some time-out tomorrow to carry out some technical maintenance work. Unfortunately it won’t be possible to publish any comments during this time. We’ll be back as usual though on Wednesday when the comment feature will be up-and-running again.

One of the crucial aspects of networking on XING are groups, which allow members to discuss, debate, and share information on a variety of topics and languages: industry-specific or generalist, regional or international. I am particularly pleased that as of today, we have over 30,000 groups on our platform. For that reason, I’d like to take you on a short journey through time, showing the moving and edifying history of groups (and of this blog). (more…)

Hi everyone.

I’m thrilled to announce that we’ll be launching the XING PARTNER ECOSYSTEM next week.

This major product launch will mark the first time that XING’s business partners are able to provide their own applications on the XING platform. This provides a huge benefit for XING’s members as our partners will compliment XING’s own applications with additional products and services made better by being delivered over the XING professional network. (more…)

You gotta love automated multiple choice menus. You know, the phone call to a company that starts with “Welcome to Giganitron Corporation. Please select from the following options. If you know your party’s extension, please enter it now.” (more…)

Welcome to the part three of introducing Scrum at XING. After explaining the basic considerations and challenges in the first two articles, this time we will discuss our procedures and results up to this point. (more…)

It is now about a month since we launched the beta version of our Company Profiles to Premium Members, and this feature will soon be available to basic XING members as well. We’ll be launching in three phases, to make sure we have enough capacities to reply promptly to user questions  – giving an additional 2 million members access to “Companies” every week, which they’ll find in their newly redesigned XING header.

Tens of thousands of members have been using the feature over the past few weeks and sending us valuable feedback on their initial responses and user experience. A massive thank you for this from the whole XING team! There’s good news to report too: The first features and changes to be made as a direct result of our feedback tool UserVoice are going live today. Here’s just a brief glimpse at some user-initiated changes. (more…)

Today we are not only starting to gradually increase the number of members using the Company Profiles, we are also completing the first major optimizations of this feature based on your feedback. Besides these large steps: if you are a Premium Member and send messages to several contacts, you will be shown how many recipients you can still add. The main view of your messages has also been revised so that it aligns with the new header better.

Welcome to part two of the Scrum case study at XING. After explaining the reasons for introducing Scrum in the previous article, today we will discuss hurdles associated with the transition. (more…)