Xing Review
RATING: 4 Stars
STRENGTHS: Leader in Europe (central), active user community
WEAKNESSES: Weak presence in US
Xing (formerly OpenBC) is the front runner in Europe. Xing offers a solid platform for creating a profile and joining networking groups. If you do business in Europe, or trying to expand your business into Europe, it is a great way to plug into a community of professionals.
Xing has upgraded their interface, and is very easy to use. A lot of their Networking Groups seemed to based on alumni groups and associations. Xing also has a section on Events (much like eCademy), Xing is offering users a balance of online and offline (in person) networking. Since both eCademy (UK) and Xing (Germany) are very concentrated networks - the events seemed to be mostly localized to their countries.
One of the unique aspects to Xing is their affiliations with a variety of services which they offer promotions and discounts to their members. As a subscriber, Xing members get the benefits of these programs which include hotel discounts, newspaper subscriptions and many other business related offerings.
In summary, Xing is clearly making a footprint in Europe, and seems to be a great resource to get connected.
1 comments:
I blogged about Xing (german) and Viadeo (french) available at
Are French and German not interested in “social networking”?
answer is: The truth is that germans and frenchs are as much interested in social networking as other western countries, but they are using other networking social sites than LinkedIn.
Germans use Xing (ex-OpenBC) and frenchs use Viadeo (ex-Viaduc).
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