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An online community start-up idea – will this fly?

December 16, 2010 by Karthik S

Where do we create online communities around interests, these days? Facebook? Orkut? Yahoo Groups? Tumblr? Facebook and Orkut are social networking sites – you create your profile and then go on to connect with others on similar interests. Ideally. Yahoo Groups is…

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The holy grail of online influence vs. our current measurement limitations

December 15, 2010 by Karthik S

A new piece in Nieman Journalism Lab talks about influence and the networked nature of Twitter. It refers to a small experiment by the authors of the book ‘Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks & How They Shape Our Lives’…

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HCL Technologies’ employee tweetup – pathbreaking or contrived?

December 14, 2010 by Karthik S

I noticed HCL’s employee tweetup recently, thanks to an RT by Gautam Ghosh. The tweetup is planned for December 16th and is meant for all HCL employees in Noida. I gather that it may be planned in other Indian cities as well….

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Wooing an employer online – Josh Chiles style!

December 13, 2010 by Karthik S

It’s been quite some time since I wrote about innovative job search techniques. My last posts on it included the following, Job search, version 3.0 – about a girl, Ankita Satija’s quest for jobs via Twitter. Making an online campaign of your…

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HDFC Bank #epicfail

December 12, 2010 by Karthik S

Updates – in the end! Imagine this scenario. You need something quite desperately. You find a shop that sells that product/service and enter it. You pick what you wanted and go to the billing counter, only to be told that they are…

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Curiosity never killed any cat

November 30, 2010 by Karthik S

There are 3 meanings in the dictionary, for the word ‘curious’. 1. eager to learn or know; inquisitive. 2. prying; meddlesome. 3. arousing or exciting speculation, interest, or attention through being inexplicable or highly unusual; odd; strange It is the first one…

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Playing to the gallery is only part of the overall plot

November 29, 2010 by Karthik S

It was strange that I came across 3 relevant articles on a particular topic I had earmarked for today’s post. First, an AdAge piece titled, ‘When It Comes to Facebook, Relevance May Be Redefined‘. The relevant point for this post? There’s increasing…

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