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Willingness to work 24X7? In a recruitment ad?

November 18, 2009November 18, 2009 by Karthik S

I have 2 reasons to be really, really annoyed with Cognizant, today. One minor reason – a Cognizant bus overtook me on the left, quite rudely. But I completely understand – the driver is just a contract employee and I don’t have…

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Social business design for dummies

November 7, 2009November 7, 2009 by Karthik S

(Apologies to Dachis Group, David Armano, Peter Kim et al.!) As I grudgingly got up this morning to attend an orientation session at my son’s school, I never knew that I’d end up blogging about the experience…let alone drag social business design…

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Overdosing on the PR koolaid

October 29, 2009 by Karthik S

Todd Defren recently posted a fictitious conversation between a PR rep and an creative ad guy, on how social media is not really the ‘thing’ of advertising agencies. Its quite funny, no doubt, but I guess we’re drinking too much of the…

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Private parts

October 22, 2009 by Karthik S

Now that Google and Bing will start adding tweets and Facebook updates to search, I’m sure we’ll have more debates on privacy – particularly, ‘Facebook updates being in Google search’ part. Though it is restricted to only your friends/ network, it still…

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Whine flu

October 13, 2009 by Karthik S

First it was a ZDNET post on how people are using social media to whine about products and services. And now this piece on walletpop about how effective complaining on twitter is. Customers have long used an assortment of modes to sort…

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Influenced enough to attempt explaining influence

October 7, 2009October 7, 2009 by Karthik S

I commented on Amber Naslund’s recent blog post titled, ‘Fleeting influence on the web‘, but I’m still not finished with this thought process; it deserves a blog post. One of the definitions with which Amber explains influence goes, ‘…encourage and compel others…

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Selling social media engagement in India

October 5, 2009 by Karthik S

While there’s a treasure trove of online content over how firms should be using social media, there’s considerably less information on the ‘selling’ part of it – by vendors/ agencies, that is. Am I an authority to talk about this? Of course…

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