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 [...]

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 [...]

Digital Product Placement (incl. Twitter) in David Guetta’s new video

As a keen YouTube and dance music fan I was watching David Guetta & Chris Willis ft Fergie & LMFAO – Gettin’ Over You music video and was almost surprised to see how three products i.e. Samsung Wave (iPhone competitor), Twitter and EverestPoker.com were embedded in the video, watch the video below. Impressive how the product [...]

Our experience of launching Internal Communication Platform

We  (The Actualize Group / @actualizelabs) are a 130+ employee company providing IT services to premium banking, insurance, telecommunication and technology customer based in London, Spain, Brazil, Chile and Mexico.  We believe that communication inside our organisation is a key aspect of developing a healthy environment and working relationships. Further the more the company’s employees speak and [...]

Why Ning’s Business model doesn’t make sense!

Recently found out that Ning is cutting is costs inorder to be more competitive , firing 40% of it’s staff. Having run a social networking software company myself. I ‘m well aware of the challenges and opportunities in running a social media shop. Apart from it’s advertisement supported business model, one of the principle reasons why Ning [...]

Videos interviews with recruitment experts at #TruLondon

I had some really interesting conversations with people at #TruLondon unfortunately not all videos came out. Technology fail! Never the less some really interesting content  available below. Social Sourcing and Future of Blogging SourcerSrini mentions how he is uses social media for sourcing candidates. PunkRockHR good insight on the future of blogging. Innovative startup in Recruitment @James_Mayes [...]

Live streaming of #trulondon 19th Feb 2010

TruLondon is a social media recruitment unconference held on the 18th and 19th Feb at Incisive Media‘s offices in Soho London. 9.30am (GMT) onwards I will be streaming live video of the event. Online video chat by Ustream Broadcast schedule: 9.30 – 10.00 All tracks: Day One Learning 10.00 – 10.30 Video track from Deloitte’s [...]

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 [...]

Email, Super-hero tool, underrated to build Mobile/Web Apps!

The email was invented in the 1970s and till date it is one of the most commonly used tool on the Internet. 92% of people read or send emails on the Internet, followed closely by using a search engine (89%) source. Email has the advantage of being platform independent i.e. you can send an email [...]

7 ways iPad will revolutionise Media by 2011

Apple’s new iPad at first might look like a bigger version of the iPhone although it has the capabilities to change the way publishers sell content and help package goods. As a multimedia tablet it supports not only textbooks but also video, audio and whole heap of applications, 140,000 o of which are out already. [...]