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Why I moved my own cheese

December 7, 2009December 7, 2009 by Karthik S

After being a client for a long time, an year in advertising and communications design, and 2 years in public relations, I’m now moving my cheese, myself. To Edelman. Yes, after 2 fantastic years at Text 100, Bangalore, I’m moving to Edelman…

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Holiday at Sagar Estate (The Nest), Coorg

November 30, 2009 by Karthik S

Thereâ??s a particularly untethered feeling you get as you head to a vacation when youâ??re in between jobs â?? that explains my feeling as we drove towards Coorg, right in the middle of the darn week, on a lovely Wednesday morning! It…

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Vote for Milliblog, my other blog…

November 29, 2009 by Karthik S

…as ‘Best Entertainment Indiblog’, Indibloggies 2008. If you haven’t seen Milliblog yet, please do! Thank you!

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Can advertising become a two-way communication?

November 23, 2009November 23, 2009 by Karthik S

I tweeted earlier today – ‘Wondering if TV/ print ads should have a feedback sms no./ mail ID…’ Think about it…when was the last time you saw an ad in print or on TV that you thought broke new ground in the…

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Willingness to work 24X7? In a recruitment ad?

November 18, 2009November 18, 2009 by Karthik S

I have 2 reasons to be really, really annoyed with Cognizant, today. One minor reason – a Cognizant bus overtook me on the left, quite rudely. But I completely understand – the driver is just a contract employee and I don’t have…

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In defense of the native twitter retweet

November 12, 2009 by Karthik S

If Twitter merely created a native retweet feature that mirrors how we have been using it, wouldn’t the world would go, ‘Bah, what’s new? We’ve been retweeting anyway!’?. And now, the world only seems annoyed. Why? Because, people do not have the…

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No BS communication

November 10, 2009 by Karthik S

Organizations have traditionally thrived in a particular way of communicating with the world – using middlemen (PR/ advertising agencies), and in a language that, after the levels and silos, is quite different from the way normal people talk and understand. Social media…

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