Dense commentary on social media, PR, marketing, advertising and branding.
Vitaliy Katsenelson, Chief Investment Officer at Investment Management Associates (Denver, Colorado) recently tweeted that they have added, in their job interview process, to check the candidate’s Uber rating (shared by the candidate, on-demand/request, by IMA)! Reason? “If you treat strangers with respect…
Three different agencies use three different creative ideas towards hiring and employer branding. 1. One Twenty Three West (Canada) If you are an agency and need to hire animators, UI/UX designers, art directors, copywriters, strategists, producers, and account supervisors, how would you…
In one of the episodes of the TV series Friends (season 4, episode 5), Ross uses a fist-bump gesture at Rachel and she doesn’t understand what it is supposed to mean. Ross’s sister Monica explains that this was a gesture invented by…
A significant part of my corporate workshops on personal branding, after I have set the context for its need and assorted nuances around social media/networking platforms and articulation, is about content. On the internet, anything and everything is ‘content’. It is also…
My father was in a single job all his career. He was in a bank, and such single-job careers were very common during his time. People usually aspired for such jobs, in banks or in the Government (banks were nationalized too, incidentally)….
Grofers’ founder Albinder Dhindsa recently took to social media to ‘chime in about the hate’ they were getting ‘for delivering groceries in 10 minutes’. A large part of the ‘chime’ seemed factual enough – long story short:– we deliver from a store…
(Try singing the title to the tune of the ghazal, ‘Hungama hai kyon, Barpa?’) By now, most people, who are reasonably online, know what happened to Myntra a week ago. For those who were living under a digital rock, a short recap….