How Ecademy.com differs from other business networks! [kwiqq]

This is my analysis of Ecademy. Recently having seen a massive growth in my contacts on Ecademy (my profile), I decided to investigate what makes this business social network different from the others, like LinkedIn, Xing etc. Ecademy Unfortunately Ecademy doesn’t give the number of users or page views on their site. But it is [...]

Shell STEP, judging third time around. Delighted!

Chuffed to judge Shell STEP, UK’s leading nationwide project-based work placement programme. I have judged this twice before, read here and here. Being a STEP student myself I’m glad I can help add value. It’s fantastic for businesses (high value for brilliant work force) and students (brilliant professional opportunity) at university. If you are a [...]

Revisiting Crunch.co.uk: End-to-end accountancy solution (for freelancers) [kwiqq]

Crunch is a new accounting solution which allows small businesses to manage their finances. We covered them four months back, now just revisiting their progress. Crunch at first might appear to be another SaaS (Software as a Service) application, where you manage your invoices, suppliers, clients etc. Although in reality it is a 24/7 accountant. [...]

Maximise niche social network’s impact, based on page views [kwiqq]

A lot can be learned from public facing successful social networks. For the purposes of this blog we will take three of our customers who will remain anonymous, sufficient to say these three customers get over million unique visitors per year. Remember these are niche communities and their main motivation is to increase sales and [...]

Case study: Intel benefits from social intranet [kwiqq]

Intel recently released their Enterprise Social Computing strategy, download PDF. The document clearly illustrates that Intel has thought through it’s strategy carefully to achieve business goals. Social media can sit alongside intellectual property and corporate rules and regulations have been very well highlighted in this report. Risk Assessment Intel rightly analysed the risk involved in [...]

Ready for BarCampBrighton4? [kwiqq]

Fantastic to hear that BarCampBrighton is back for the fourth time in the lovely seaside city on September 5th & 6th September, 2009. Once again it’s the weekend immediately after dConstruct. To be held in the heart of the city, the old Music Library on Church Street; currently an art gallery and somewhat down-at-heel, it’s [...]

Retail Industry: Increase web traffic through social media (Play N Trade) [kwiqq]

This is another example of social media assisting a business meet its business objectives. This case study looks at a video game and entertainment software retailer franchise based in North and South America with over 240 stores and revenues of over $20M. Using social media and carefully planned social strategy the company increased it’s web [...]