Dense commentary on social media, PR, marketing, advertising and branding.
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….
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
Good article in Boston Herald. But, except Lenovo, none of the other examples are inspiring enough for the fence-sitters to start experimenting. But, its a great beginning, nevertheless…and a good lesson for Indian companies! By the way, two of the companies mentioned…