Living in Singapore is like living in any other country, and with a new home in mind, you might need extra cash. Some of the best options to resolve your financial needs include home and personal loans. The modern-day world moves, thanks to loans that help us resolve our financial needs. Education, medical bills, studies,…
Licensed Moneylender Loan Application: How to Get Higher Credit Score When you apply for any loan from a money lender Singapore, the first criteria that you should meet is the required credit score. If you have a poor credit history, you’ll like to find it difficult to seek approval. We discussed here the things to…
When I started speaking about social media in 2005, I used to joke that someday, conferences discussing social media will be about as relevant and well-attended as conferences on the business uses of the Fax machine. I’m wondering if that day has come. About a month ago I attended TC Disrupt, one of the biggest startup…
Wherever I turn, it seems one of my many friends who work as independent social media consultants are either looking for fulltime jobs or have recently taken one. I’m not talking about superstars like Chris Brogan. Nor do I include the out-of-nowhere self-proclaimed social media “experts” who usually turn out to be ” know-nothings.” The…
When Scott Monty sent me an invite to play Empire Avenue, the social media world’s hot-product-du-jour, I groaned. Why do I need another distraction to distract me from all my other social media distractions, I asked him. He answered with tweeting brevity. “It’s fun,” he said. “It does what Klout is supposed to do, but we rate our own friends. Both…
[NOTE: Formerly, the SM Global Report, this column has interviewed people all over the world who have extended social media in interesting or useful directions. For the next several months it will focus exclusively on people who will be covered in my next book, Social Media Pioneers. Your feedback will influence how extensively I cover people….
[NOTE: I use social media tools to help me write books. I get insight and feedback from people on this blog, on Twitter and on Facebook. I’ve done this twice before and the result has been a much better book without the help from so many friends. There’s a process. I turn to readers for…
The tweet post went up this morning from the New York Times: ”If you’re in Egypt, or in contact with someone in Egypt, we’d love to have photos and video from the scene. Send to: [email protected]” It is a fresh example of a concept that I call “braided journalism.” It is the idea that professional and citizen…
I was on a Social Media Club panel in San Francisco when I ad libbed a forecast that “2011 will be the year in which the word ‘social’ is inserted in front of all other words.” It became my most retweeted comment of the night. While some still complain that the term “social media” is inaccurate,…
A few weeks back I met with Klout’s Joe Fernandez. I went in to the session skeptical and walked out respecting what the Klout team has achieved and where the company is trying to go. That being said, I still harbor more than a few concerns. This week I had a similar experience with the senior guys at…