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…)

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.

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Having dealt primarily with group moderation in my last two posts, I’d now like to return to what group members are set to gain from active involvement in groups. In my first MaximiXING post on groups I already touched on a number of different aspects of group membership, some of which I’d like to tackle in more detail here. (more…)

Welcome to the third and final part of our series of posts on XING groups. Having outlined the basics of group membership in part 1 and explained how to start a group of your own in part 2, I’ll take a look today at other options and features open to group moderators. (more…)

Welcome back to MaximiXING, and the second part of the group special feature.  As we described in the first installment, each XING member can start a topic-based or professional group.  You can make a name for yourself as an expert in your field, create and maintain a network of professionals, or just pursue a hobby you particularly enjoy.

As the moderator of a group, you’re responsible for creating and developing a group, and can influence who is a member – which means in effect that you can play a key role in determining the discourse on a specific topic. (more…)

The 26,000+ groups on our platform form a key part of the interaction that takes place every day on XING. Groups are the ideal place for members to demonstrate their expertise in a particular field, learn new things, or find new contacts and potential business partners. In the first of a multi-part series I’d like to show you how you can make the absolute most of XING groups – both as a member and as a group founder and moderator. (more…)

Welcome to the third and for now last part in our maximiXING series on careers and job searches. After discussing here profile settings and what you can do with Groups, today we take a look at XING Jobs, the job market on our platform. At first glance, this is all very easy to use – and that’s true! But there are a few good ways you can optimize your search to handle different challenges. (more…)

Welcome to the second part of our maximiXING series on careers and job searches. Having taken a look at optimizing your profile for employers in the last post, here’s an insight into the most interactive part of the platform: Groups. (more…)

You might be open to changing your employer if the right offer came your way. Maybe you are actively thinking about starting a new chapter in your career, or perhaps you have been forced to start looking for a new job having being made redundant. Whatever your situation, your XING profile can make a big difference to your chances of getting hired. (more…)

One of the most interesting and simultaneously most powerful functions available to XING Premium Members is the Powersearch. There are a number of special search functions, all of which can be very helpful for maintaining a contact network.  Some of these functions are also available to basic members. It’s worthwhile to spend some time and play around with the Powersearch: the results are often very helpful, and almost always a lot of fun. I’d like to spend a moment and introduce some of my favorite Powersearches: (more…)