Dense commentary on social media, PR, marketing, advertising and branding.
Like many others, I loved how Vaseline took advantage of an opportunity yesterday to put their brand in context to something that is (or was) recently topical. For a full story, here’s Anant Rangaswami’s well articulated observations in FirstPost. While the print…
Perhaps inspired by The Best Job in the World campaign, we now have ‘The Coolest Job‘ campaign. There’s a print ad. in Bangalore Times too. Going by the clues (limited!) in the text, I could find only 2 things worth using to…
Me? Conceiving brands and building them? Yes, I’m referring to the ones that I seemed to have built as a hobby, while having a full-time job for over a decade! Even today, when I meet people, many still remember one of the…
While you can read Edelman India’s official release on the locally contextual announcement on the launch of BlogLevel and TweetLevel (Ver. 2.0), here are some behind-the-curtain experiences. 1. The infographic we have created to demonstrate the power these tools is mighty functional…
While reading Kevin Cheng’s piece titled, ‘Can we ever digitally organize our friends?‘, I started off by answering that question from my perspective – No. But what interested me more is not the organizing part of it; even though that is the…
My wife has been complaining about changing our 3+ year old refrigerator for a couple of weeks now. Ours is a Whirlpool refrigerator (400 litres) and it has caused us quite a few problems – the compressor conked off a few weeks…
This morning, as I scanned my @mentions, I found this bizarre tweet from a handle called ‘classmatemanoft’! To put it mildly, it was…oh wait, before I get into rant mode, need to add a small real life story. We have all been…