Author: Manoj Ranaweera

Images from the event I attended yesterday

When I saw my last post on Xiaohongshu getting more views than the previous posts, I wondered whether I could drive it to get 10,000 views. Sadly, I missed achieving the target by midnight today. After 16 mins past midnight, I managed to get to 10,000 views. Previously, the highest number of views I attracted for any post on Xiaohongshu was 418 over a few weeks. I’m not new to social media. My none repeatable greatest achievements with a lot of luck are: Getting over 70,000 views on a Cheat Sheet on edocr.com during the early days. Traffic came from…

My community strengthSkilledUp Life: https://skilledup.life (42,500+ skilled volunteers for tech startups)– Volunteers: 42,750+– Tech Companies: 200+– Linkedin Company Page Followers: 52,000+– Unique visitors: 47,000+Deal Lite: https://deallite.uk + https://lnkd.in/efmz5xBP + https://uktechnews.info + https://uktechexits.news (intelligence for Tech startups, investors and suppliers)– Deal Lite Weekly Deal News: 1,200+– Deal Lite Company Page Followers: 10,000+– Unique visitors: 78,000+ and 27,000+Techcelerate: https://lnkd.in/eKeefU7 (know how of building tech startups)– Community: 30+– Newsletter: 1,800+– Unique visitors: 10,000+Next event on the 20th in Manchester https://lnkd.in/edycNsDqhashtag#traffic hashtag#intelligence hashtag#community hashtag#skilleduplife hashtag#deallite hashtag#techcelerate hashtag#techstartups hashtag#investment hashtag#funding hashtag#manchestertech hashtag#techmcr

I do three things – https://techcelerate.ventures – community of tech founders. We are about building companies for customers and not investors – https://deallite.uk – intelligence on UK’s venture backed tech companies and investors who back them – https://skilledup.life – 41,000+ skilled volunteers to build tech companies, especially supporting bootstrapped tech companies.

A few years back, we introduced daily reporting culture at SkilledUp Life. This is how it works: Everyone submits an update of what they worked on every day on a dedicated Slack Channel including full-timers and me in addition to our volunteers. Our HR Performance Sub Team copies the updates to a Spreadsheet manually, which then totals the number of dates volunteered. From this, they reach out to none performing team members. Rules are: No updates for 3 consecutive days – warning sent No updates for 5 consecutive days – terminated. Latest addition (from today onwards): Each of the team…

I discovered a course thanks to Chamara and decided to take it in given that the ask is for 30 minutes per day. Day 2 which I completed today instead of on the 2nd Jan is all about using ChatGPT to improve your existing work, in this case, an email was used as an example. Prompts: Rewrite the following email in a casual tone of voice: Rewrite the following email using less than 300 words: I’m writing an email. Add a new section to it with concise next steps: Once your sample email is added, it will execute your request.…