XING Enterprise Groups

XING Enterprise Groups
XING AG
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XING Corporate Solutions
3 integrated modules to leverage the XING network
XING Full Membership
XING Corporate Package
XING Groups
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• Bulk packages of 12
months Full Membership.
Provides employees with
productive tools and retains
them
• You control who receives
full membership, e.g. to
distinguish between
employees and alumni
• Enterprise Groups with
enhanced functionality to
manage employees, alumni
or other stakeholders
• Including additional XING
enterprise services such
as invitation service,
business intelligence reports
etc.
Find more detailed feature specifications in the presentation’s backup
XING Job Marketplace
• “Flat rate” for up to a
certain number of job
postings for targeted hiring
and latent seekers, using
the network
• Development partnership
to create a direct XML
interface to upload job
offers
We help you combine the modules according to your corporate Web 2.0
needs and put together an attractive package
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Groups on XING
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Groups on XING
Benefits
Besides professional networking, XING offers a unique group functionality
Scalable solutions for community
building
Creates visibility & trust in a cutting
edge environment (“Web 2.0”), e.g.
through integration into users
profile under “My groups”
Additional communication channel
for current and former employees
Membership in a group allows
identification, affiliation and
knowledge exchange
Weaving a closer net to link up
experts
Can be closed or open to everyone,
visible or hidden
Easy to set up
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Groups on XING
Benefits for your company
Benefits from proactive Corporate Alumni Management with Groups
… for your company … for your alumni
Stay close: Strengthen ties to talent
and manage your communication with
your globally distributed alumni
Manage talent: The alumni network
provide access to promising re-hire
candidates 1)
Improve image: Strong alumni
relations will contribute to your
marketing and public relations program
Access knowledge and insights:
Alumni as potential partners in
collaboration on projects, as sources of
innovative ideas, and as subjects for
market research
Retain access: Stay close to
former peers, to their experience,
know-how and ideas
Strengthen connection: Manage
contacts, meet former colleagues
and keep in touch with them
Establish identification: Lifelong
identification with former employer
Acquire a knowledge database:
Gain fresh knowledge by
contributing as senior experts to
future projects
1) Independent study by CareerFinder.com identifies re-hiring of alumni and pensioners as one out of 7 key trends in HR.
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Enterprise Groups
Functionalities
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Enterprise Groups Functionalities
At a glance
Enterprise Groups: functionality designed to serve corporations
Community features: Forums, internal member search; stimulate viral growth with
landing page, link etc.
Branding features: Consistent CI through layout options; logos in group and on
member profiles
Content features: Upload content, e.g. podcasts, videos, interviews, articles, papers,
corporate news, reports and briefings; customizable HTML tabs to present content;
integrate external content via RSS feed
Communication features: Create and send HTML-newsletters with desired content
Event features: Schedule and coordinate global, regional and local events; invite group
members and guests to events; manage responses, guest lists, reminders, comments etc
Administration features: Full control of visibility, member lists, moderator status;
administer contingent of Premium Memberships, optional member data export function
Additional Enterprise services: XING invitations to existing employee or alumni on
XING to join groups; business intelligence reports; community starter kit and community
best practices, group setup guide incl. detailed description of features; help-desk for user
support
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Enterprise Groups Functionalities
Overview Groups vs. Enterprise Groups
Characteristics
Discussion forums (multi-lingual)
Internal member search and member list
Group event functionality
News board and integration of RSS-Feeds on startpage, send out HTML
newsletters
Upload up to four different logos, customizable Group start page
Up to five customizable HTML tabs, file upload (e.g. documents,
podcasts, pictures)
Export of member data (as csv or xml file)
Group statistics (members, articles) and reports (page traffic, member
demographics)
Moderator workshops and community expertise
XING invitations to existing employee or alumni on XING to join groups
+ special landing page
Setup Guide for Groups and help-desk for user support
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Enterprise Groups Functionalities
Look and Feel – “About this Group” page
Banner Upload
Tabs for structuring the
Enterprise Group
Customizable HTML page
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Enterprise Groups Functionalities
Look and Feel – Start page
Integrate News and a RSS
Feed on the start page
Search for group articles
Overview „Latest articles“
and „New members“
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Enterprise Groups Functionalities
Look and Feel – Forums and member list
Set up multilingual forums and
use forum section headings for
better structuring
Source: The English Lounge / https://www.xing.com/app/network?op=forums;tab=3;name=englishlounge
Search for other Group members
and contact them directly
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Enterprise Groups Functionalities
Best Practice Customizable HTML Tabs
Names can be directly linked to the
XING profile page; articles can be
linked to discussions in the ‘forum’
tab.
All the tabs allow a large
number of HTML tags. The
design incl. the boxes is
done by the Enterprise
Groups operators. Design
templates do not yet exist.
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Enterprise Groups Functionalities
Best Practice The Greater IBM Connection
Start page
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Enterprise Groups Functionalities
Best Practice The Greater IBM Connection
‘About this group’
In the Enterprise Groups
five additional tabs can be
set up by operators of the
Group
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Enterprise Groups Functionalities
Best Practice The Greater IBM Connection
‘Community’ Tab
All the tabs allow a large
number of HTML tags. The
design incl. the boxes is
done by the Enterprise
Groups operators. Design
templates do not yet exist.
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Enterprise Groups Functionalities
Best Practice The Greater IBM Connection
Extract ‘Community Tab’
Podcasts can be played
directly in the Enterprise
Group. A specific player
was developed for this
purpose.
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Best Practice The Greater IBM Connection
‘IBM Topics’ Tab
Links lead to the full story
lower on the page.
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‘Consultancy Topics’ Tab
Many articles are linked to
discussions in the ‘forum’
tab.
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‘Career Center’ Tab
Interviews often contain a
link to the XING profile of
interviewees.
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Enterprise Groups Functionalities
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‘Downloads & Archive’ Tab
A ‘downloads & Archive’
Tab can be set up in order
to store and make available
podcasts and documents.
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