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 [...]

Radical innovation ESSENTIAL to grow online users [kwiqq]

Perhaps one of the most obvious statements but worth making innovation is key to get customers coming back to your website. A quick look at graph 1 and 2 show that companies like AOL.com, with their established brand still need to innovate internally to get members coming to their site. AOL although made numerous acquisitions [...]

New report suggests Twitter for pointless babble and lazy people! [kwiqq]

Whilst Twitter is growing day on day, people are discovering new ways to use it. Many organisations and individuals have signed up to Twitter to promote and collaborate but a report published by Pear Analytics suggests that 40.55% of tweets are actually just pointless babble. Another interesting fact is that 5% of the Twitterers contribute [...]

The Social Networking Timeline [kwiqq]

Came across a fantastic article on the history of social network by two researchers from University of California-Berkeley and Michigan State University. You can read the whole research paper here. What I like about the article is the fact that it clearly demonstrates that social networking is not new. It has been around for now [...]

How Ecademy.com differs from other business networks! [kwiqq]

This is my analysis of Ecademy. Recently having seen a massive growth in my contacts on Ecademy (my profile), I decided to investigate what makes this business social network different from the others, like LinkedIn, Xing etc. Ecademy Unfortunately Ecademy doesn’t give the number of users or page views on their site. But it is [...]

Entertainment Agency: Increases sales leads through Social Media [kwiqq]

Another case study of how one of UK’s leading live entertainment service provider with operations in over fourteen countries and over 100 staff worldwide increased it’s sales leads and web traffic through social media. Entertainment Agency: Increases sales leads through Social Media

Business Matters Newspaper: Social networking…for business [kwiqq]

Business Matters is the monthly business newspaper launched in February 2007 by Sussex Newspapers. Dedicated to local Sussex businesses large and small, focusing on issues that concern you – with the opportunity to express your opinions, communicate your success – and gain new clients across the area. Recently Business Matters’ Theo Cronin met me at [...]

(Presentation) SMEs Grow your business using Social Networks [kwiqq]

I recently prepared this presentation for SMEs looking to grow their businesses though social networks. The presentation looks at the growth of social networking technology, social tools SMEs should use, features to include in social networks and a fun task on LinkedIn to get your hands dirty. Grow your business using Social Networks: Raj Anand [...]

A Day in the Life of a Social Media Entrepreneur [kwiqq]

In this post I’m describing how I spend my day indulging in social media. My name is Raj Anand and I’m the founder of a UK based startup called Kwiqq. You can look me up on Wikipedia (Raj Anand). Starting my day: 0750 – Alarm rings and I open my Macbook to turn on a [...]

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