While other Islamic countries are busy celebrating Ramadan, the population of Pakistan is struggling with the worst flooding in almost a century. Although the immediate death toll in the disaster zone is comparatively low, when compared to other natural catastrophes like earthquakes or tornadoes, for many Pakistanis, the suffering has only begun. Far over one [...]
Filed under: InterNations on August 16th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As we already hinted at in a previous blog post, our IT and web design guys have been busy working on our Access Page as well as the Guided Tour of the InterNations Community. The two areas are the public “face” of InterNations, which, for instance, an expat might have a look at when a [...]
Filed under: InterNations on July 29th, 2010 | No Comments »
The lucky InterNations member who was awarded a brand-new Apple iPad as a thank-you present for her participation in our recent health-care survey, a Turkish expatriate living in Germany, even came to our Munich office to collect the gift in person from our founder Malte Zeeck. We hope she’ll have lots of fun with it! [...]
Filed under: InterNations on July 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »
Thanks to our IT team’s renewed efforts, we now present an updated InterNations Guide Section that incorporates some of our members’ suggestions for an easier rating system and includes our most recent changes to the event pages as well. In addition to more prominent, highlighted, contact information for every venue, the InterNations Guide also features [...]
Filed under: InterNations on July 20th, 2010 | No Comments »
Now that the World Cup 2010 is over and everyone knows the score of the finals, the results of the All InterNations Open were published as well, our last round of bonus questions included. With more than 5000 participants from over 145 different national backgrounds, our tipping competition was truly an international event for global [...]
Filed under: InterNations on July 16th, 2010 | No Comments »
Thanks a lot to all our members who participated in our International Health Insurance Survey! The overall turnout of the survey was great, and we got quite a representative sample of the InterNations member base. 36% are occupationally independent since they are business-owners, self-employed professionals or freelancers. Most others tend to work in leading positions [...]
Filed under: InterNations on June 30th, 2010 | No Comments »
Are you not only an InterNations member, but also a Twitter junkie or a Facebook addict? In that case, you’ll be glad to hear that you can spread the news about our InterNations events among your expat friends on these sites. On every entry in the event calendar, there is now a little “Share” button [...]
Filed under: InterNations on June 28th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
If you would like to know what our members in Bodrum (Turkey) and Toronto (Canada) are currently up to, look no further: The Bodrum online edition of Hürriyet Daily News has posted about the two most recent InterNations Get-Togethers in May and June, and our latest Toronto meet-up was covered by South-Asian Generation Next. Special [...]
Filed under: InterNations on June 14th, 2010 | No Comments »
If you are a member of InterNations, don’t forget to take part in our current survey on international health-care. More and more members have recently told us that they really enjoy the special offers which our partners are providing for the members of our community. We are planning to increase this choice and negotiate more [...]
Filed under: InterNations on June 14th, 2010 | No Comments »
Street vendors, souvenir shops, and department stores near the InterNations office have started to put their football fan gear on display: Flags, streamers, t-shirts, wrapped candy – all is decked out in German and South African colours, and it’s obvious that the World Cup won’t be long in coming. 32 nations from around the globe [...]
Filed under: InterNations on May 31st, 2010 | 1 Comment »