Selling just under 300 books per week in just 20 days

I’m glad to announce that my book on recruiting with social media in just 20 days is now ranked 17,367 out of 424,793 Kiddle books on Amazon. According to fonerbooks.com that implies that the book is selling just under 300 books per week on Amazon.com alone based on the graph (below) and multiplying a factor of [...]

Windows offers Google Doc equivalent, do you care?

Windows yesterday (7th June) posted a message launching their Office web apps on Skydrive in UK, US, Canada and Ireland. I had a quick play around with it and compared it with Google Docs, see screenshots below: Microsoft Office suite Google Docs The question I am trying to ask myself is why would someone using [...]

Google Buzz, a new social media aggregator

Yesterday Google released it’s new social media aggregator, Buzz. Bizarrely, looks very similar to FriendFeed, saw Techcrunch was reporting that as well. This is not Google’s first attempt to integrate their service in a FriendFeed style system. Google Wave was certainly on a similar track. Although Wave has a major disadvantage that it doesn’t allow user’s to integrate it with [...]

Pros and cons of Social Media Advertising (SMA)

Social Media Advertising spend is growing rapidly, whilst others traditional online (if you can call it that ) is on the decrease. According to Neilsen AdRelevance, social media advertising has risen by 812%, 364% and 184% in Entertainment, Travel and Business to Business industries respectively . Travel and Business to Business has seen a decrease [...]

17 Google Wave Invites. Do you want one?

I’m giving out 17 Google Wave invites, to members of the Social Media in Recruitment group on LinkedIn. If you are wondering what’s Google Wave, check out this video: If you are a member of the group, please contact me with your email address. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Frajanand.biz%2F2009%2F12%2F15%2F17-google-wave-invites-do-you-want-one%2F’; addthis_title = ’17+Google+Wave+Invites.+Do+you+want+one%3F’; addthis_pub = ”;

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 [...]

10 benefits of Social Media strategy (if you get it right)

Social Media is making waves and it’s fantastic that more and more companies are adopting it. Sometimes it may feel that companies are adopting social media for the wrong reasons. Just having a Facebook, Twitter etc profile is not enough it about engagement with your customer. Some experts would say that you are better off [...]

Twitter v/s Google Offices. Does Google have an edge?

Twitter Employees unveiled their new office in San Francisco. There is certainly a resemblance between Twitter HQ to the Googleplex. Perhaps Google offices are still a bit cooler? Reception Team Space (Discussions and chill out) Twitter Google Workstation Twitter Google Twitter Google Foyer Twitter Google Canteen Twitter Google Conference Room Twitter Google Twitter offices from [...]