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Update on this post…added in the end. There are hardly ever any communication-related jobs in Times of India’s Ascent, but I check it nevertheless, every week. Perhaps a connection from my past life, as a corporate communication guy, in the client side….
There’s a lot of interest around social media newsrooms, these days. So, let me ask this straight – who is a social media newsroom targeted at? Let me start with this post on The Buzz Bin – Wake Up! Your Online Newsroom…
…or, for that matter, is Technorati, and even blogging, as a medium, still relevant? I used to eagerly look forward to Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere (the 2010 report), till 2 years ago. Since last year, I’m not entirely sure if this…
The latest OPEN magazine has a piece, ‘Review of Reviewers‘, by Madhavankutty Pillai and Pratibha Singh that makes for very interesting reading. It talks of how Indian film makers and actors react to reviews and even says that there are just 7-8…
Can I talk positively online about my employer/brand that I work for? I have always pondered over this question – after all, why not? I can have a personal opinion that is removed from my relationship with my employer/brand, right? This post…
I noticed this sandal/slipper from Woodland on Sunday, in The Sunday Times of India. This one, I thought it looked pretty good. As someone who is looking to get a slipper-type footwear after getting bored with the sandal-type one, this looked like…
In the final scene of David Fincher’s ‘The Social Network’, Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg), just after he was told, ‘You’re not an asshole, Mark. You’re just trying really hard to be’, by a sympathetic lawyer, goes to Facebook and finds…