Diversity and out-of-the-box thinking for unusual event formats were apparently key for many of our global expat events during the past four weeks. Let’s take a quick trip around the world while looking back on a few selected InterNations get-togethers, great and small alike. In Europe, the London Community decided to show some sportsmanship and [...]
Filed under: Events, InterNations on August 27th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As Margaret noticed the last time she was logged in on InterNations, she received a notification for an upcoming event in her local community. Suddenly, the “My Events” section of her Personal Navigator box on the Start Page informed her that she had been invited to two upcoming events via InterNations: the official InterNations [...]
Filed under: Events, InterNations on August 17th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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 far as the past month’s event highlights are concerned, the team at the InterNations office in Munich is especially proud that we established a new record for our local community: Over 500 guests with all sorts of national backgrounds celebrated at the city’s most famous “in”-club in mid-July. In Istanbul, there were at least [...]
Filed under: Events, InterNations on August 6th, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The last time we heard from Margaret in Munich, she had updated her InterNations profile in order to better connect with other members. But before she starts looking for new contacts, she decides to explores the Local Community first. Two features in particular attract her attention — the Munich Expat Forum and the upcoming [...]
Filed under: InterNations on August 3rd, 2010 | No Comments »
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 »
Remember expat Margaret from Seattle, who has signed up for the InterNations Munich Community? Since Margaret is still busy dealing with all the red tape from the municipal authorities, she hasn’t really had the time to log in during the past few days. However, she receives an e-mail notification that there are now her first [...]
Filed under: InterNations on July 12th, 2010 | 3 Comments »