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The Twitter timeline vs. Pritish Nandy

June 1, 2013 by Karthik S

Yesterday morning, there was a huge flurry of activity on Twitter around one article (The people vs N.Srinivasan). On Mumbai Mirror. By Pritish Nandy. Yes, it was a very different piece of opinion on N.Srinivasan that took a larger view to the…

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PR Industry in India and new media – requesting your opinion

May 30, 2013 by Karthik S

I will be moderating a panel in Exchange4Media’s event, India PR & Corporate Communications 2013 tomorrow. The overall theme of the event is ‘New media: friend or foe?‘, within the PR world scheme of things. My panel, within that theme, is, ‘Put…

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Kudos to Manivannan, MD Bescom, for pathbreaking use of Facebook!

May 28, 2013 by Karthik S

You may have read about Uttar Pradesh police using Twitter, last week in this blog. Here’s an even more inspiring social media usage from a Government official. Manivannan, IAS and Managing Director of Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Ltd. is on Facebook and…

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A tale of two customer service issues

May 27, 2013 by Karthik S

Early last week I was grappling with a troublesome situation. My Honda City’s hypothecation to Kotak got over and I got a NOC from them that I can submit to my RTO and get new set of papers for the car. I…

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Interesting reads of the day – May 24, 2013

May 24, 2013 by Karthik S

Daikin says, ‘1 million views = 1 more school’ (cooled)! 1 million views for 1-3 a/cs? Jesus… #megalame! — Karthik Srinivasan (@beastoftraal) May 24, 2013 — RT @anantrangaswami: This is tiring. Now Daikin’s Cool a school ‘activism’. New post. firstpost.com/living/why-dai? — Karthik…

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Interesting reads of the day – May 23, 2013

May 23, 2013 by Karthik S

Justin Bieber will sue you if you tweet/instagram/blog from his house parties tmz.me/10mhuIg ? Karthik Srinivasan (@beastoftraal) May 23, 2013 “anyone who violates the terms of the waiver will automatically be on the hook for $5 million in damages” — How does…

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Interesting reads of the day – May 21, 2013

May 21, 2013 by Karthik S

How PR can use Flipboard to create magazines Useful. But I still started a manual curation on my blog yesterday. — Karthik Srinivasan (@beastoftraal) May 21, 2013 “Creating your magazine is as simple as finding the content you want to add in…

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