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 [...]

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 [...]

‘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 [...]

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 addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Frajanand.biz%2F2009%2F11%2F23%2Fretweet-rt-soon-part-of-twitter-interface%2F’; addthis_title = [...]

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 [...]

IT Consultancy shows no love to Piccolos Italian (Brighton)

I spent many interesting evenings at Piccolo’s Italian during my student days. Known amongst friends for good food at an affordable price. Their salads are to die for! Reviews on a Brighton Takeaway site. Today I followed a link to their website and was shocked to see: Clearly the restaurant didn’t pay for the website, [...]