Get yourselves on the Social Media train.

Recent study shown that top companies uses social media and specifically; Facebook(74%), YouTube(65%), Twitter(63%), LinkedIn(60%). Combined, this usage represents significant growth from 2007, when the same survey indicated that just 20 percent of marketers were using social media. Surely you don't want to miss out!

Of all that, I am still not too familiar with LinkedIn. I don't think it matters that much at the moment with my 'steady' job.

What's your twitter mojo?

Stumbled across this site, and I have been scientifically proven to be a scenester from my twitter posts. That means I keep up with the trend to find out what's on the scene, hopefully without creating one.

You should try and see what's yours. Follow the above link, type your username, and you're done in a couple of seconds.

For those new to twitter, help is at hand

A nice little guide from the exceedingly nice people at mashable.com. Click on the t;

Power of the Tweeter! - by David Pogue

I suggest you guys do 2 things today; 1) join twitter (at twitter.com), 2) follow me on twitter (twitter.com/harisrahman) .... hehe

Last Monday night at 10 p.m. was not my finest moment.

The CNBC camera crew was due to arrive at my house the next morning at 11 a.m., as they do every Tuesday, to shoot my weekly CNBC/NYTimes tech video. Not only did I have no script yet, but I didn’t even have a concept for the skit.

Finally, by about 10:30 p.m., I had an idea I thought could work. The only problem is, it required a series of fake “man on the street” interviews (about HD radio). But it was too late to start calling my neighbors, as I usually do when I need extras.

So, in desperation, I opened Twitter, my favorite crowdsourcing magic machine. I typed this: “Hey–anyone wanna be in my CNBC video this week? You have to live in Fairfield County, CT, and be available midday tomorrow. :)”

This was insane. What were the odds that anyone would want to come all the way to my house, with only 12 hours’ notice and no pay?