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I happened to meet a friend from my school days recently. He’s in the finance department of one of the bigger Indian IT companies, in Chennai. He had come to know about my social media/online exploits (ahem!) only recently and this was…
I just spent my 2 days in the last weekend completely sick and in bed. Though Bill Bryson’s ‘The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid‘ gave me damn good company, something stuck me while I was flipping through the newspapers and…
A website called Traackr recently published a Top 25 in PR 2.0 influencer list. Such lists are common nowadays; cook some algorithms to crawl through online content created by people, using keywords, and voila, you have a list. What was interesting and…
As someone who continues to keep in touch with the mother tongue (in my case, Tamil), I buy 3 weekly Tamil magazines. These are general interest magazines and contain everything a true-blue Tamilian needs to know about the state and its happenings….
Two weeks ago, my wife asked me if I knew about a particular Facebook setting. When she explained it to, I realized that I had no idea about it! The setting is found when you click on the ‘Most recent’ tab, adjacent…
In a recent meeting with a prospect, I was asked, ‘So, who are these online influencers that you’ll be talking to, about us?’ when I spoke about influencer engagement. I wanted to say so many things, but just ended up saying that…
Yes. It has happened. Need proof? Here’s one. The channels (Star World and Star Movies) have an online community of over 3.35 lakh fans on Facebook on the last count, leaving behind their competition and some of the news and broadcast portals…