Pedestrians Xing

Globalisation and marketing often lead to changes in names, flavours and philosophies, and this is not only true for candy bars. What I am referring to is the change from OpenBC to XING, one of the leading business networking communities on the web. Fotunately, in this case, changes were both subtle and for the better. Furthermore, I was surprised that it was even much easier to find old class mates, which is possibly due to the fact that XING originated in Germany and is very popular among the German business community. Becoming a member is easy and as long as you do not require the top-most level of search functionality it is also for free. Before I start making too much noise for something that I do not earn a single Euro with (although XING is out on the stock market) I better leave it at this.

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When I started my work in the fields of air traffic management and safety several years ago, one of the most intriguing facts was that this area of research had come up with a language of its own.

Welcome to the world of ATM abbreviations!

At that time it took me a while to find a conclusive list of acronyms and abbreviations somewhere on the internet. When I finally found something it wasn't really an exhaustive list and it didn't include many of the acronyms I heard around me. So, eventually I decided to make a list of my own, adding to it whatever I could find in the research papers piling up on my desk (including the standard office culture abbreviations such as KISS, SMART, TBD, and NA).

Apart from a link to the ATM abbreviations list, which sometimes includes links to related webpages, I'll also add some links to important glossary documents in the permanent link section of this weblog. Furthermore, I'll add a link to a webpage with ATM-related links that I maintain and that is also worth having a look at.

Well, TTYL...

Still more networking...

Found another networking community recently:

• LinkedIn

This site looks a bit more playful. Yet, it works quite well and I actually know several people who are already members of that community.

Again I added my own profile to see how it works:

• My profile on LinkedIn

Let's see if I can build up a professional network from here...
I honestly hope that the next post on this blog will be more interesting.

Networking

Found two great networking community sites this week:

• OpenBC for general business contacts and
• Academici for more knowledge and research related topics

I think these sites offer two basic advantages, namely creating a network of contacts (due to easy search capabilities) and publishing personal profiles for both business and academic purposes.

I added my own profiles to see how it works and it doesn't look so bad:

• My profile on OpenBC
• My profile on Academici

Hope this gets me started in that blogging world.

I'll add some more business related posts soon...