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 [...]

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 [...]

Advertising Agencies use Social Media for awareness

(Reblogged my earlier post on the Kwiqq Blog) Social Media is now genuinely used for brand building. More recognisable organisations are using Twitter, Facebook etc to communicate with their audience.  Recently got hold of an internal meeting presentation (available below) held by a major Canadian Advertising/integrated marketing Agency, BSL.com. In short they are using social [...]

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 [...]

Retweet (RT) soon part of Twitter interface

If you are a regular twitter user I’m sure you understand how important RT (Retweet) is to broadcast your message. Twitter is soon going to launch RT interface which will make it easy for users on Twitter.com to know which messages have been retweeted using an icon. Click to Expand

Social Media buzz phrases and what does it mean to your mum

Social Media has opened doors to several opportunities in business and our personal lives. But has also initiated a heap of unnecessary management phrases which many don’t understand. The first thing I was taught in business was to KISS (Keep in Simple Stupid). Unfortunately these phrases have totally confused many (including my mum). Below is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]