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 [...]

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 [...]

‘LinkedIn opens its platform’, what does it mean for recruiters

The software development industry has been going on (see here and here) about how LinkedIn has just opened it’s platform via an API (Application Programming Interface). Companies can now build Twitter like applications for LinkedIn. This implies companies now have access to: Candidate Profiles including either the public view or the more detailed view the [...]

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 [...]

How to setup LinkedIn group for Brand/Business [kwiqq]

LinkedIn is a pioneering business social networking website. One of the most popular social network for business professionals to connect with contacts and on some occasions make new contacts. In Europe its giving Xing a good run for its money. General bit of statistics on Xing v/s LinkedIn (source): Xing November 1, 2003 – 5 [...]

How to use ‘TwitBook-In’ [kwiqq]

I’m intrigued how many people ask me the question “How do you use Twitter ?” , “Any examples of LinkedIn being useful to your business ?” As a company which eats its own dog food i.e. market our service and product using social media we use social tools frequently. For the purpose of this blog [...]

2008 in a nutshell.. prediction for 2009 [kwiqq]

When I think of 2008 it has been a fantastic learning experience. And realisation of a lot of hard work we put in over the last two years. This was a turning point in my entrepreneurial carrier, in words of one of the Kwiqq’s advisers “This is the year when you (Kwiqq) understood your (its) [...]

30 online social tools we use and recommend [kwiqq]

As a social media junkies, we tend to live and breathe social tools. Some of these tools might be of interest to our readers. Let us know if you find them useful: Multimedia 1). BBC iPlayer- Watch BBC programmes 2). Favtape – Listen to music in your browser. The successor of Muxtape 3). YouTube – [...]

7 uses of Twitter in my life [kwiqq]

I would be the first one to accept that adopting Twitter took me sometime. For 6 to 9 months I had an account with no idea why I should use it. Now I’m seriously addicted to Twitter, there are so many things I have discovered which might be worth sharing 7) Send direct messages to [...]