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Play Farmville on Facebook to enhance your business management skills
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I have been on Facebook for a long time and have been an active social networker. One of the best ways to network is to get involved into playing games on the social networking sites. Being in strategic role I tend to indulge myself strategy games. I generally like games developed by Zynga as they [...]
Graduates searching for a job in the current market scenario
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The job market is tough and it’s even tougher for fresh graduates to get suitable jobs in the current market. Normally this leads to frustration and depression and most of the students blame it on recession and how bad their luck is.
However there are few students like David Rowe of Cambridge. A law student who [...]
A must read for job seekers in current economy
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I came across a useful post which gives a list of must read presentations for a job seeker. Applicant.com has compiled a list of 7 presentations from SlideShare.
The first thing to hit during recession was hiring and recruitment and the first thing will pick up would be the same. Economy is already showing signs of [...]
Now money can buy friends, followers, connections, fans on social media sites
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I always thought Money can help you buy materialistic things but certainly not family and friends. Today I came across a company that helps you do just that and I was really amazed to learn that now you can buy friends. With the advent of social media and everyone is trying to establish their brand [...]
Recruitment post recession – Hiring upswing round the corner, are you prepared?
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The buzz across the world is that the recession is coming to an end and the worst is probably over. You will see this sentiment being reflected amongst most of the people you talk to. All the major news items across the globe carry headlines like “the worst is over” and testimony to this fact [...]
Do you have a social media policy for your organization
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I am a firm believer of using social media to aid organizational productivity and I always advocate and encourage use of various social media applications like blogs, networking sites, wiki’s within my organization. Past couple of months I have been analyzing time spent by my employees on these social networking sites and measuring its effectiveness [...]
twitcam and camtweet to offer live video streaming on twitter
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twitcam – developed by Livestream and camtweet – developed by Justin.TV are utilities where anyone using their twitter login details can start streaming live to its followers, create live chat rooms and archive each streaming event. This is not a ground breaking technological neither it’s an innovative concept. To me it’s smart thinking and [...]
How to install IntenseDebate on wordpress 2.7.1
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IntenseDebate – super charge your commenting system
I installed IntenseDebate to offer highly interactive commenting system to the readers of GigaThoughts. As always it started with a lot of research, which led to final two competitors to choose from – IntenseDebate and Disqus. After testing both commenting system on local machine for a week, I finally [...]
RBI makes it mandatory for banks to provide additional authentication for online shopping
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According to a new ruling, the Reserve bank of India -RBI has made it mandatory for all banks issuing credit and debit cards to provide additional authentication information over and above what is visible on the card. To prevent fraud and to make online shopping safer, the RBI has made it mandatory, from 1st August [...]
Nandan Nilekani and Congress initiate unique identification card project
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On 26th June 2009 times of India carried the headlines “Infy boss to join the government as a cabinet minister.” I am proud of Nandan Nilekani for taking a though call (quitting Infosys) and Congress government making him cabinet minister. Such events are very rare in the Indian context as we don’t see many corporate [...]
