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The social media carpetbagger manifesto

On December 21, 2008 by Karthik S

Livingstonbuzz’s post from last week is incredibly useful – in detecting if your current/ potential social media consultant is a carpetbagger. Its the oldest trick in getting some Digg love – make a list. Forget the 10s…make it a top 25. And…

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Vernacular internet?

On December 20, 2008 by Karthik S

There are some interesting conversations floating about internet in local Indian languages. Take a look at Nikhil Pahwa‘s (Medianama) first post that emanated out of a question in the Internet Governance Forum; Mahesh‘s (Oneindia) subsequent post and more recently, Manu Prasad‘s post….

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Dev.D and Delhi 6 getting social media right!

On December 18, 2008 by Karthik S

Trust our film makers to get social media engagement right! Rakeysh ‘Rang-de-basanti’ Mehra’s next film is Delhi 6. The promo is just out, recently and looks awesome, as expected, with some scintillating music by A R Rahman. There’s a ‘Official Delhi 6…

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Download mp3 from Guruji?

On December 18, 2008 by Karthik S

“The â??music searchâ?? function on the site leads the user to songs that he or she could have accessed using any other search engine or directly from the website. We aren’t hosting any of this content. So T-Series needs to tell us…

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Social media is the new PR – Ogilvy

On December 17, 2008 by Karthik S

Excellent effort by Ogilvy. One of the relevant PDF documents was titled ‘The New PR‘ and talks extensively about why brands should start leveraging social media for PR. Ogilvy is defnitely ahead of the curve with some fabulous case studies, but what…

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Twittering million!

On December 17, 2008 by Karthik S

As if that list of Top 10 Indian IT companies and their non-existent (most of them, at least) twitter accounts is not enough, here’s Dell talking about the million USD it has made (see this and this)….through Twitter. Besides being an absolutely…

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India’s Top 10 IT companies on Twitter

On December 16, 2008 by Karthik S

How do Indian IT companies fare on microblogging (read, Twitter)? Terribly, I’d say. Of the Top 10 companies (as per this Rediff list), only 3 companies actually own their twitter profiles. The rest either do not even have a profile or have…

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