Dense commentary on social media, PR, marketing, advertising and branding.
Update (June 11, 2010): US Consulate, Chennai, responds on Facebook: “Karthik, we want to first thank you for being engaged with the blog contest. The primary goal of the contest was to give youth in South India the opportunity to learn about…
It started with (from what I could see) @kapilb’s tweet which said, UTV Bindass should have not used Taj Hotel image http://post.ly/fjEH I personally think that is a fair point – remember how extra sensitive people were in the US, in the…
Early in March this year, I had blogged about a girl’s job search approach and had termed it job search, version 3.0. If that was 3.0, here’s an another interesting approach that could be well be 4.0. A former (since he’s on…
I wrote about Tata and Skoda and how they are trying to use their own properties on social media to address some of their recent issues. With Tata, I haven’t seen any progress, but in case of Skoda, I see massive progress….
These days there are tons and tons of twitter profiles from brands. Most of them seem largely similar. Take, for instance, the ones I stumbled last week. Levis India Nope, I’m a staunch Lee fan when it comes to my denims. But,…
This is one of best digital campaigns I’ve seen in recent times – and it is all due to its compelling content! The concept is about 6 lines of dialog. They are, What is that? It’s a unicorn. Never seen one up…
Two car makers in India seem to be having some issues – one, major issues, while the other, a relatively minor problem. First, Tata Nano. That dramatic photograph of a brand new Nano going up in flames is…well, dramatic indeed! I have…