How Social Media is influencing Innovation inside Companies

The presentation I’m doing today at Cliq Project covers how social media is encouraging innovation. It looks at sites like InnoCentive and MyStarbucksIdea but also Facebook and Twitter as a source of innovation. It also briefly looks at the concept of Government, Industry and Universities (triple helix) causing innovation and how public powered by social [...]

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 [...]

Raj’s Bizzz – March Edition

On a regular I hear of opportunities which might be interesting for people who follow this blog. To make these available to all readers I will blog about them as Raj’s Bizzz: Starting a business Over the weekend I met a Sussex University graduate and budding entrepreneur, who thought a downloadable PDF file for developing [...]

Webchat: Business finance – busting the myths

Make Your Mark is hosting another very interesting webchat tomorrow: ‘Business finance’ at 1pm. From the webchat: Whether you’re at the start-up stage, have a burning idea, or want to take your existing enterprise to the next level, how to access finance will always be an important consideration. If you’re fed up of the doom [...]

Middlesex University features importance of social networking

Recently I spoke at Middlesex University, presentation available on Kwiqq’s Blog. An article was published in the monthly Middlesex University Magazine (Middlesex World) highlighting the importance of social networking: addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Frajanand.biz%2F2008%2F11%2F22%2Fmiddlesex-university-features-importance-of-social-networking%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Middlesex+University+features+importance+of+social+networking’; addthis_pub = ”;

Should Middlesex Uni kids dance ?

So I’m doing a short talk at Middlesex University London on Digital Future. As the organisers put it to me, could you do a ‘Fun presentation on social networking sites, and the phenomenon and ongoing future/possibilities of them’. Now I’m thinking, I’m sure I can do a presentation on Social Networking in my sleep. But [...]

My upcoming presentations

Currently I’m spending some time everyday working on presentations for upcoming events. Events: 12th – 14th Oct: The Young Apeldoorn Conference 2008 (Belfast): Organised by the British Council in Netherlands. How we can social media help in solving social and political issues in UK and Netherlands. 23rd Oct: DPA Conference (Brighton):Presenting about the applications of [...]

Future of Social Media

Came across the Future of Social Media event in London very interesting lineup with speakers from companies like LinkedIn, Slide, TripAdvisor, RockYou, Agency.com etc addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Frajanand.biz%2F2008%2F09%2F12%2Ffuture-of-social-media%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Future+of+Social+Media’; addthis_pub = ”;