A Day in the Life of a Social Media Entrepreneur [kwiqq]

Posted on | June 2, 2009 | View Comments

In this post I’m describing how I spend my day indulging in social media. My name is Raj Anand and I’m the founder of a UK based startup called Kwiqq. You can look me up on Wikipedia (Raj Anand).

Starting my day:

0750 – Alarm rings and I open my Macbook to turn on a chilled out radio on Last.fm.

0830 – I have taken my shower and just before leaving for the office I turn on BBC iPlayer to see if there is anything important today.

0845 – I’m on the train and twittering on my iPhone using Twitter for iPhone

0900 – I’m in the office and first thing I do is to turn on my Netvibes (RSS news reader), TweetDeck (to manage my personal Twitter account), Twhirl (to manage my company and not for profit organisation accounts).

0930 – I’m scrolling through Microplaza (way to discover relevant and interesting items from the people we follow on Twitter), Digg and Techmeme (spotlights the hottest tech stories from all around the web on a single page) for interesting news in social media

1030 – I start writing a blog on the KwiqqBlog or RajAnand.biz

1230 – Its time for lunch. If I go down to the cafe on my own I’m on Twitter catching up with my 1300+ contacts, its hard work!

1300 – I’m back in the office catching up on TechCrunch, BBC Technology, ReadWriteWeb and The New York Times Technology.

1400 – Its time to think of something innovative. Generally it tends to be a white paper for Scribd (Raj on Scribd), presentation for SlideShare (Raj on Slideshare) or Video for YouTube (Raj on YouTube).

1600 – One hour before end of play. Its time to see the progress of the team. Often visit sales leads on Highrise (Track your Leads, Contacts, & Deals) and project progress on Basecamp or Trac (Project management and bug/issue tracking system).

CoolGorilla iPhone App

1700 – On my way back home I check Facebook on the iPhone and nowadays learning Spanish via Lastminute/CoolGorilla App.

1800 – Time for some dinner, nothing compliments it better than a YouTube comedy video or planning what movie to watch with mates based on reviews from Flixster.

1900 – Time to meet some friends for a movie or Salsa (Dance not the sauce). Sometime it involves taking pictures and uploading them to Twitter via Twitpic or Facebook via Facebook iPhone app

2200 – Its time to nip back home before embarking on night out: round two. Sometimes a business networking event in London/Brighton or social/business friends gathering. Nothing sets you in the mood better than Favtape (Unfortunately it has been down for the last few weeks, hope it will be online soon)

Late – I’m back home. Time to go to sleep for the 0750 alarm, although always good to keep an eye on your personal bank accounts. I do that using a service called Kublax (online money budgeting service where you can get feeds from incomings and outgoings from all your bank accounts).

Now I’m really tired I better go to bed. I have to do this all over again tomorrow!

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