My book ‘Recruiting with Social Media’ out 3rd August

I’m glad to inform that my book Recruitment with Social Media, Social Media’s Impact on Recruitment and HR is out on 3rd August 2010, published by Que/Pearson Publication. You can buy a copy from Recruiting with Social Media (Que eStore). About the Book The book highlights the power of recruiting people with Social Media! Social [...]

Entrepreneur grows home-based translations business international

From time to time like to feature guest bloggers on my site. This is a story of Christian Arno who founded Lingo24, business more or less bootstrapped from the beginning. Lingo24 translated over thirty million words in 2009, covering clients in over sixty countries and every industry sector. Their turnover in the twelve months to September [...]

Google Wave killer, Nurphy.com

Recently I bumped into Neil from Nurphy at an event. He was telling us about his application Nurphy. At first you might think yet another start-up, although actually it’s truly a fantastic app see what New York Times and Read Write Web are saying. So what does it do? The application is puts your conversation [...]

Words from the wise (article in The Observer)

Reblogging article in the Observer (Thanks Olivia Gordan) There’s no secret formula for succcess and every entrepreneur has their own idea of how to achieve it. Four network members share their advice Raj Anand Recently announced as one of the 50 most influential people in the digital industry by Revolution magazine, Raj Anand is one [...]

List of online communities to maximize recruitment potential

Often, finding the right candidates or customers require recruitment teams to go far and wide. For some customers or circumstances teams have to tap into communities which already exist e.g. Institute of Engineers, women in Space Research, CIOs in the insurance industry. Traditionally this could be an expensive, time intensive process and would require to [...]

IT Consultancy shows no love to Piccolos Italian (Brighton)

I spent many interesting evenings at Piccolo’s Italian during my student days. Known amongst friends for good food at an affordable price. Their salads are to die for! Reviews on a Brighton Takeaway site. Today I followed a link to their website and was shocked to see: Clearly the restaurant didn’t pay for the website, [...]

Sussex University Alumni Video

I must say great job with the video and indeed a fatastic way to promote university education. For people who know me, you would appreciate that I need to work on my acting skills. The video contains footage of me trying to reenact time at Kwiqq.Enjoy! addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Frajanand.biz%2F2009%2F11%2F12%2Fsussex-university-alumni-video%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Sussex+University+Alumni+Video’; addthis_pub = ”;

Bye bye Kwiqq, start of the next chapter!

Kwiqq has been an exciting opportunity for me and everyone. Firstly I want to say a BIG thank you to everyone who worked with us: our team, customers and all supporters/friends/family for being through the ups and downs. In short we have decided to close Kwiqq and work on other opportunities. Below I have written [...]

Dance Salsa 4 HIV/AIDS Awareness..calling partners!

Image via Wikipedia Fantastic initiative by SalsaBrighton and Sue Ghimire, supported by Aids Alliance to organise a Salsa (dance) charity night to fight HIV/AIDS. The event is taking place in Brighton Coalition and promises to be spectacular, with over 2,000 people turning up. The team is looking for partners (if you would like to attend [...]

Furness Young Professionals Event: Starting a business

I’m looking forward to speak to a crowd of young professionals in Cumbria at the Furness Young Professionals event on 30th October (Friday). FYP aims to encourage the entrepreneurial spirit of Furness. The Talk My talk will concentrate on: JFDI (Just Doing it) Encouraging others to just get on with developing their business idea and [...]