Dense commentary on social media, PR, marketing, advertising and branding.
Regardless of the fact that I heard from someone that Mahindra Group actually did a press release for one of these 8 properties when it reached some magic number, I’m hugely impressed with the sheer numbers they have amassed. Mahindra Scorpio: 194,000+…
Seen the Mp3 experiment by Improv Everywhere? Here’s Mp3 experiment No. 7! Full marks for the way it has been conceptualized and executed – super impressed! And of course, the way it has been cataloged for promotion…like the video above! Or even…
It was almost 2 years back when I wrote about Shobhaa De’s using social media to promote her book, ‘Superstar India’, in this blog. Much has happened since…she’s even gone ahead and asked for the ban of Dabangg, of all things! But…
Former Wipro’ite, Jessie Paul (now CEO of PaulWriter) has a post on Wipro’s tweetference. This is Wipro’s first ever tweetference and Jessie has addressed almost all relevant points that need to be mentioned in her post titled, ‘Wipro’s Tweetference – 5 Quick…
One of the tweets I saw last evening riled me so much…enough to tweet this, I *H-A-T-E* someone using ‘dis’, for ‘this’, even when there are a LOT of characters left. Not taking names; in a charitable mood. The truth is, it…
IKEA UK releases 100 house cats in its Wembley store and makes it a YouTube ‘viral’ thingy. The point, please? People ‘in the’ video seem to be having a lot of fun…it’s their cat…their video…after all. Watching it is such a mundane…
a.k.a Part Three of ‘Selling social media in India’. Recently, I started using the first part of Harry Potter (The Sorcerer’s Stone) as the bed time reading material for my about-to-be-7 son. Before Harry Potter happened, I was telling him stories, on…