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This post is a response to two other articles published elsewhere. The first is titled, ‘Why We Use Social Media in Our Personal Lives â?? But Not for Work‘, by Tammy Erickson, and was published in Harvard Business Review on February 16,…
My colleague from Australia, Matthew Gain, has outlined it more than adequately, in his blog, but I assume an Indian equivalent may be useful too. Here are a few snapshots that best present the Indian social media story. Exhibit 1 Trust in…
An interesting post on Pluggd, this morning – Of Flipkart Vs. Homeshop18 Tweet Controversy and A Question: Do brands own their employeeâ??s tweet? – read it first, before going into my post. The crux – it seems a Flipkart employee had purchased…
I came across this Economic Times piece titled, ‘Farmers using Facebook to discuss prices and plan strategy’ via Dina’s blog. It has a perfect social media buzzworthy headline and follows it up with a very meaningful piece too. But, more than anything…
I have been fortunate enough, through most of my career, to not look too much for a job. When I moved from Delhi to Bangalore more than a decade ago, I was freshly married and didn’t have a job in hand –…
Update – Feb.8, 2012: How did Mallya Senior react to this? Take a look at his tweet. One could argue that he had the complete sentiment right in front of him since his tweet is posted late in the evening of a…
More than all the hoopla around Sahara India Parivar withdrawing their support to Indian cricket team, what interested me in yesterday’s lead story in The Times of India is the last sentence. It went, ‘we haven’t received anything in writing from them…