And Saadia Qamar’s journey to the Social Networking Hubs continues… This week, her 4th stop is Palo Alto, San Francisco, California!
For Facebook lovers, or those who have marveled and played on with this intricate way of networking and public dealing know for sure, that it is suppose to be one of coolest website to visit [...]
Google Buzz challenges Facebook, Twitter
The world’s No. 1 search engine on Tuesday launched Google Buzz, which allows users to quickly share messages, web links and photos with friends and colleagues directly within Gmail, the company’s popular email product.
Also, a new arsenal of products make the new social networking features compatible with mobile devices such as [...]
The way marketers and advertising companies reach out to their prospective clients/customers has evolved over the years. The tools that were used earlier have now transformed, internet is the new marketing place and social networking sites are havens for marketers. Politicians and celebrities are also taking advantage of these new media tools. So, what are [...]
Punjab government, Microsoft sign accord
A strategic partnership agreement was signed between the Punjab government and a leading computer software company Microsoft here on Friday, under which Microsoft would extend all-out co-operation for the development of local IT industry. The company will also set up an innovation center at Software Technology Park, disclosed an official. [...]
How much of Pakistan is on Facebook
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If there is anyone on the planet left wondering if Facebook is still a fad or simply something weaved into the fabric of our everyday lives, that’s a statistic that will blow your mind! According to UN estimates available on Wikipedia.org that puts the population of Pakistan at 166 million. Use this as a benchmark [...]
Granted we’ve got more than one entry about the world’s largest online social community but this simply had to be reported! And yes, it IS a trend!
In the past several issues of CIO Pakistan, we’ve looked at common issues that NGO’s, also known as Not-For-Profits in some countries, have with their IT knowhow. While every organization has the same challenge of reducing costs while increasing the bottom line, organizations that support the community have an even greater challenge of getting the [...]
Pakistan has all the fundamentals in place to emerge as one of the leading global IT destinations. These include our cost advantage over other leading countries, including India and China, as well as the presence of a large pool of local IT resources. As the sixth most populous country in the world, with some of [...]
How much of Pakistan is on Facebook?
It’s always interesting, almost mind-blowing, to find out just how many Pakistanis are logged in anywhere. The number of registered users from Pakistan on one of the world’s largest social networking communities, Facebook, is an eye-opener!
Irfan Zafar, GM Technology Innovation, Sui Southern Gas Company Limited
About SSGC: Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) is Pakistan’s leading integrated gas Company. The company is engaged in the business of transmission and distribution of natural gas besides construction of high pressure transmission and low pressure distribution systems. Scope of work: I am responsible for building [...]
There are few people, online or otherwise, who would have not heard about Sabeen Mahmud and The Second Floor. And the reason I can say that so confidently is because Sabeen not only preached New Media and online promotional marketing, but practiced it. Probably the person to have had the longest, most prolific career in [...]
Dr Aamir Matin takes a look at the role of the internet during the Media Blackout in Pakistan in November 2007
They say the one thing that causes widespread panic, is the lack of information. So when the all the local channels went off the air in early November, the public turned to the internet, normally [...]
It’s all about reaching out to the right people and extracting the right kind of information that is most relevant to the readers of CIO. Look us up online at the CIO Pakistan group if you are on Facebook, or join our CIO Pakistan group on LinkedIn. I bet you’re asking yourself, ‘what’s the difference [...]
Rather than beat the horse further on the age-old debate whether social networking is good or bad for the individual during office hours, it’s scary how this “entertainment” can actually bring your business some financial gain. The line between social networking and business networking is so hazy that it begs the question – can you [...]
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