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 [...]

Social Media in Recruitment: (Case Study) Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young Facebook campaign is a good example of how social media can be used to: Appeal to candidates, looking for internships. Engage existing employees in the recruitment process. Encourage applicants to hear from previous interns via video and put a face to the organisation. Case Study: Social Media for Recruitment (Ernst &Young)

Why Myspace (not Facebook) ideal for some advertisers

Approximately four years back (in January 2007) Myspace launched in the UK. Taking on the mighty Friends Reunited, having already given Friendster a run for it’s money. Along came Facebook, with richer user experience and ultimate privacy control, taking the social media market by storm, and hasn’t stopped user acquisition ever since. Facebook’s v/s Myspace [...]

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 [...]

List of APIs for your Social Networks

Reblogged from the Kwiqq.com Updated (18/02/2009) the Instant Messenger / Voice Chat I believe 2009 was the year of the APIs (Application Programming Interface). Whether it is to login using OpenID, Facebook Connect or just to easily uploading videos to YouTube. The obvious advantages are: lower the barrier to entry for niche social network, quickly [...]

Travel sector struggling to have conversations online

A few million of us each year leave our busy schedules behind and go and enjoy a holiday. Internet savvy users troll through sites like SkyScanner and Kayak to find ‘Cheap Holidays’ or ‘Popular Holidays’ on various websites. Often value for money and good booking experience plays an important role for us when purchasing these [...]

Business Plan template to ‘Grow a business’

Image by Raymond Yee via Flickr For anyone looking to start a business. The document is a template of a business plan for developing a social networking software company. This business plan was built over three months in 2007, to plan our growth. The document serves as a mock business plan. Business Plan template to [...]

Calling all Copywriters!

Image via CrunchBase At Kwiqq we believe in partnership so much so that all our major marketing activities are in partnership with PR agencies, copywriters, content creators or marketing agencies. We think it is fantastic to get partners involved to open doors to new opportunities. In the past our partners based on the joint marketing [...]

RajAnand.biz now in the cloud. Yuppie!

I’m thrilled to announce that rajanand.biz has moved from a hosted solution to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud i.e. Amazon EC2. This implies that my website can now scale infinetely and I don’t have to bother about the hardware and system administration issues…uff! In Amazon’s own words: ‘EC2 is a web service that provides resizable compute [...]

SUE – Sussex University Entrepreneurs

I have recently learnt that only 4% of Sussex graduates choose entrepreneurship as a career path after their degrees. This number for instance is higher than Kent University, which produces 3% graduate entrepreneurs. Although more can be done at Sussex to support entrepreneurship. This is when I decided to develop a group to encourage Sussex [...]

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