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.

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...