About Xing
Xing is proving to be very popular with European people and many South Americans. This site is providing serious opposition to Ryze. Having the advantage of being second, many of the same functions that Ryze offers are better executed in Xing.
There are now several hundred discussion networks, but the discussion has not taken off on most of them yet. Support is offered for several languages. (16 I'm told)
To encourage group use, 4 recent postings to groups are listed on the front page. You can open up a page for more of these recent postings (More) and quickly find the topics that might interest yourself. You can read any of these letters. If you want to reply you must join the group. (A simple click in most cases)
Xing is currently expanding in "apps" following Facebook. I'm not sure that this is a good idea. Time will tell. Here is the link to Xing
New Xing Members
An amazing number of new members of Xing fail to complete their personal profiles. I understand that it's HARD to DO, but learning to describe yourself is a basic skill we all need to practise. So write something, in each of the sections. Come back and improve it later. If the "About Me" page is just too challenging, as a temporary measure, find some quotes you like, and publish those.
You can use a limited range of HTML to enhance the presentation of your "About Me" page. If you have yet to learn HTML skills, don't let that stop you. There are free editors available for download that will help you.
Join some groups: Follow the conversation: Whenever you can add something of your own to the conversation.
Remember that you have a guest book. Check it occasionally. If you visit the pages of people who are interesting, comment in their guestbook.
Maximize the value of your Social Networks
Social Networking Newbies strongly believe in the value of cross-linking between networks. The World Wide Web should be just that. a WEB of cross links. So as well as your Xing and Ryze membership we also recommend that you join LinkedIn.
John Stephen Veitch
Open Future Limited - http://www.openfuture.biz/
Innovation Network - http://veech-network.ryze.com/
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