Monthly Archives: November 2008

@Twitter ultimate News Source for Thanksgiving #mumbai attack ?

Mumbai attack on 26th November is a testimonial of the use of Twitter as a news source. Thausands of twitter posts tagged started flowing into the twittosphere from the start of the dramatic Mumbai attacks. To make the news relavant to the target audience twitterers added a tag #mumbai. At an average about 6 tweets [...]

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30 online social tools we use and recommend

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 - Watch Movies and Listen [...]

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Kwiqq launches two council social websites

Over the last few months we have been working on two social websites: East Hampshire Council and the British Council. The East Hampshire Council site was developed in collaboration with Callender Creates, Design Studio based in Brighton. The sites are very different, below is a quick analysis of what each site does:
East Hampshire (EastHampshire.org)
East Hampshire [...]

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Sniping (marketing) your target audience using social media

The power of social media in marketing to target audience, is not a secret. Companies have been using it to virally promoting their product and services for several years now. Although given a budget and current economic climate marketers are asked to focus and avoid experimentation where ever possible. Social Media marketing can be divided [...]

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7 tips (and examples) for high Social Media ROI

We at Kwiqq love our Social Media marketing! We do a lot of it for our company and sometimes for our clients. Here are 7 tips for high social media return on investment learnt over the last two years (in no particular order) :

Innovation is good although copying ain’t too bad (shsssh!): Apparently no one [...]

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Digital Futures at Middlesex University

Thanks for attending my Digital Futures presentation at Middlesex University. I really enjoyed meeting everyone on both the days. I thought it would be good to answer some of the frequently asked questions:
Q. “What is your salary Raj” ?
A. This answer will still be unknown although I can confirm I’m doing alright
Q. “How [...]

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Social networks and headless chickens

I feel like a headless chicken, running around Plaxo and LinkedIn searching for people to make connections with. What is the real point of social networking, is it just to find people you know already and share stuff with them, stuff you could share relatively easy in other ways. It all feels a bit empty.
When [...]

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Twitter encouraging spammers or highlight trends? Analysis using ‘TweetDeck’

So I have been following the word ’social’ on TweetDeck to figure out trends in the socialsphere. This morning I saw a really fascinating trend where users were tweeting (or actually spamming? ) with the message:
“See how big companies use social media: : http://blogcouncil.alltop.com”
The first person to blog about it was kitchenwench who posted:

After which [...]

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Digital Futures: Middlesex University Presentation

I really enjoyed interacting and speaking to sixth form college students at digital futures, Middlesex University. I wrote a brief blog post on Judging young entrepreneurs as a Dragon!, shortly after my presentation. For those who are interested please find my presentation below:
Raj Anand Digital Futures Presentation
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Cricket (sport) investment and social networks

Cricket known as gentlemen’s game back in the days, has recently racked several billions of dollars of investment in sponsorship and advertising. For readers who are less familiar with the game a quick overview:
(Source Wikipedia)
Cricket is a bat-and-ball team sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries. A cricket [...]

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