Xing buys Neurona: is it good or bad for Italian market? Will Neurona.it become Xing.it or Xing still gonna come as Xing.it?

Few hours ago today I was writing an article about that Viadeo Italia and Neurona Italia are the friends of Milan-IN through their Country Leaders, and we're waiting for Xing to come to Italy. ...Taking into account that we know quite for sure that LinkedIn is not gonna be here soon...

... and only few hours later Internet is full of rumours, doubts, thoughts, it's all about that- OPEN Business Club AG (Xing) acquires Neurona, the Spanish market leader for online business networking

WoW, such a crazy world. And it's becoming always much interesting.
I was asking today- where's Xing, where is Xing? and now I should probably ask- where Neurona will go? :)

Will Neurona still be Neurona or it will become Xing- OpenBC?

Why we're so much interested? It's just because it's very important for Milan-IN, the META Network for Off-line (real life) Networking, to know if here will be Xing in Italy or it will be presented directly through Neurona.it.

I was chatting today the whole day long (well, periodically :lol:) on Skype with my friends Silvia and Andrea, both really affected about this happening... and it seems that both of them are very happy about that happened: for Andrea/Viadeo there will be a great motivation to work harder and better :), and for Silvia/Neurona.it it's the next move, the new Team, the new objectives and for sure the new achievements!

At the end I'll mention that I was recently writing about the previous acquisition of Xing, that time it was Conozco (A strong movement in the sector: Xing acquires Spanish Social Network eConozco) and here is the article commented btw by Silvia very well, and also by Laura from Dada.net.

Well, we will see it. Now I wish a good week-end to everyone :), to Viadeo Italia, to Neurona.it and to Xing- Kind of the day, also to its CEO Lars Hinrichs and the whole Xing Team- to which I say my honest BEST CONGRATULATIONS! 

We thank our friends Neurona and Viadeo for their support!

For those who still may have doubts, I repeat that Milan-IN is not a competitor of any Social Business Network on-line, like from the most important in Italy it's Viadeo o Neurona.it, integrated very well in the local market.

Our core is Social Networking 2.0, - being the "second life" for the traditional today's Social Networks with their intensive and important on-line life.  And we're off-line with our Social and Business Events!

Well, so what should we thank Neurona and Viadeo for?
They, of course through their local project coordinators for Italy, helped us a lot in promoting of the Milan-IN's "2-nd Year Anniversary" event, that thing expected for the year,- our Mega-Gala-Party, Milan-IN Happy Birthday.

And I want to personally thank twice Silvia Aznar, my friend and strategist for Neurona- Italy project, for the constant support she is giving to me (as to resp. IT/On-Line Marketing of Milan-IN). This time with Neurona.it we could do some really great things: a direct mail (NetMail feature as it's called in Neurona) that I sent to all Members of "Business Opportunity" group on Neurona (with permission of Silvia, accepted my as Moderator of that Group), and the following lots of personal forwarding of this message by the people- members of that Community, we've got for Milan-IN 100+ new Membership Requests in about 10 days only! It's quite a big number, taking into account that 100 is a 10% of 1000, the total amount of Milan-IN Club Members!

Is this the wished by us so much, the so-called and natural strict collaboration between on-line and off-line worlds? GREAT! Business Club 2.0 really works if so!

And of course I wish, as usual, to thank my friend and colleague Andrea Falzin & Viadeo Italia...

So we're still missing Xing and, of course, LinkedIn Italia itself? ;)

I remind you that we have among Milan-INers today Viadeo Leader, Neurona.it Leader and Dada.net Marketing Leader. And it's of course true that we're a Club of LinkedIn Italia Users ourselves.

It seems to be essential for Milan-IN, as the next step in its development and national expansion, to have as one of the main goals "for tomorrow" the more strict collaboration with our on-line partners.

And we wish this to us for the 2007/2008!

but now- Happy Birthday, Milan-IN!

 

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