3 impressive Social Networking trends [kwiqq]

Recently Neilson produced a fantastic report (Global Faces and Networked Places) on Social Networks and its penetration in Europe and US. The report made several discoveries in connection to online community growth. Member Communities takes over Email One of the highlights for us was the volume of private communities and its penetration. The report suggests [...]

Update on Global Entrepreneurship Week winners [kwiqq]

As part of the Make Your Mark‘s Global Entrepreneurship Week competition African Caribbean Society (ACS) emerged as the winners. We wrote about the finalists in January and announced the winners in late January. ACS demonstrated a strong understanding of Social Networking and putting it to use for a niche. Further they have an ambitious idea [...]

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 [...]

11 ways Social Networks can use Twitter [kwiqq]

Any new social network needs tons of marketing on launch. Today’s marketing is all about engagement and putting something interesting constantly in front of users. Often successful niche social networks piggy back on established social networks like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube etc.   Over the last one or two years Facebook has been an interesting Marketing [...]

Kwiqq (seriously) adopting OpenID [kwiqq]

OpenID has been the topic of the week in the Kwiqq offices. OpenID for people who are less aware of it is a shared identity service, which allows Internet users to log on to many different web sites using a single digital identity, single sign-on, eliminating the need for a different user name and password [...]

My upcoming presentations

Currently I’m spending some time everyday working on presentations for upcoming events. Events: 12th – 14th Oct: The Young Apeldoorn Conference 2008 (Belfast): Organised by the British Council in Netherlands. How we can social media help in solving social and political issues in UK and Netherlands. 23rd Oct: DPA Conference (Brighton):Presenting about the applications of [...]