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Blogger outreach? Here’s a 7 step process to find top bloggers

October 28, 2010 by Karthik S

Despite all this evolution into social networking, twitter etc. one of the oft-used phrases to denote a ‘social media activity’, at the client side, is still, ‘blogger meet’! At the same time, there is enough chatter, debate and eventual annoyance on poor…

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How to land a career in Digital PR – the India version

September 7, 2010September 7, 2010 by Karthik S

Thanks to Gautam Ghosh for being the inspiration behind this post, by referencing the original post on Mashable! Beyond a few factors, most of the points mentioned in this post are not India-specific and apply to just about anyone looking for a…

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My advice to someone who wants to start a blog?

August 18, 2010November 9, 2010 by Karthik S

One of the questions I was asked in a recent interview (on BlogAdda – part 1 and part 2) was, ‘What is your advice to someone who wants to start a blog?’. I started the answer with ‘Don’t’. But then, it sounded…

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Visibility of @mentions on Twitter

July 28, 2010 by Karthik S

I realize many people still don’t know how @mentions work on Twitter, in terms of visibility. Reiterating from Twitter Help page: People will only see replies in their home time line if they are following both the sender and recipient of the…

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Eros gets on my nerves!

June 10, 2009 by Karthik S

Eros owns the rights on everything to do with Imtiaz Ali’s 3rd film, Love Aaj Kal. And they make it mighty apparent. Impressed by the promo I saw on YouTube this morning, I tweeted the link. The movie, at least based on…

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Lenovo’s Domino’s moment?

April 22, 2009April 22, 2009 by Karthik S

Scene 1: Lenovo’s Worldwide Competitive Analyst, Matt Kohut, predicts that Linux will always remain a niche operating system for netbooks. He said this in an exclusive interview with Tech.Blorge. Scene 1.5! The interview generates tons of comments – 46, as of writing…

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Social media lessons from 20 favorite Seinfeld scenes!

January 18, 2009January 18, 2009 by Karthik S

I do understand that this post seems highly gimmicky. But this is something I prepared as a presentation for a friend who wanted to teach the basics and sanitize one of her client teams. I knew for a fact that the team…

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