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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.

Xing is three years old. 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)

There is a Xing Group called "The New Zealand Connection" which is open for all NZ residents and for people who have attended school or university here, or people who have visited NZ, especially if you've worked here. You can join the NZ Connection here.

Would you prefer an Invitation?

If you would like us to invite you to join Xing please ask Open Future Limited to send you an invitation. We'll try to oblige withing 24 hours.

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

Open Future Limited strongly believes 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 New Zealand Connection membership we also recommend that you join LinkedIn, and the equivalent group on LinkedIn called Kiwi Scrum.