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Passionate about Innovation in Social Media.

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 media [...]

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 in [...]

‘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 user [...]

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.

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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 a [...]

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)

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Workstation

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Foyer

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Canteen

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Conference Room

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Twitter offices from Techcrunch.com (link)

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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, but would [...]

Why Myspace (not Facebook) ideal for some advertisers

Approximately four years back (in January 2007) Myspace launched in the UK. Taking on the mighty Friends Reunited, having already given Friendster a run for it’s money. Along came Facebook, with richer user experience and ultimate privacy control, taking the social media market by storm, and hasn’t stopped user acquisition ever since.
Facebook’s v/s Myspace demographic [...]

Business Plan template to ‘Grow a business’

Image by Raymond Yee via Flickr

For anyone looking to start a business.
The document is a template of a business plan for developing a social networking software company. This business plan was built over three months in 2007, to plan our growth. The document serves as a mock business plan.
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