Tag Archives: Strategy

Paper Capers

Almost 2 months since we last discussed newspapers, so I thought its a good time to update. Rumour is that Murdoch plans to sue Google and Yahoo over news services. Fact is that he’s going to charge for news, something … Continue reading

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Brands – Maturity, Transparency, Objectivity

On the day that gay sex was made legal in India, I had wondered aloud on Twitter, whether condom brands like KS, Moods or even a deo brand like Axe – whose communication is all about attracting people (the female … Continue reading

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Its trending, trending..gone

Much of last week’s discussions online revolved around some interesting news about, well, Twitter . From the Twitpocaypse scare (“it will happen because the unique identifier -a signed integer, associated with each tweet will exceed 2,147,483,647 which is the limit … Continue reading

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‘What are you doing’ needs an @ reply ? :)

And every so often, we hear about how brands screw up on Facebook and Twitter, these days we even regularly hear how Facebook screws up on itself, and finally we heard about how Twitter ‘screwed up’ on Twitter. In case … Continue reading

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Social Media – beyond strategy

Unilever CMO Simon Clift, at Ad Age’s Digital Conference, spoke about the increasing role of social media in brand management, and said that the internet allows consumers to hijack conversations inspite of the huge money spent on advertising. From Unilever’s … Continue reading

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The Facebook age

Facebook’s redesign continues to make news on a regular basis. With a whole lot of vociferous users making their dislike quite clear, with the help of a layout poll, it was interesting to see that a lot of advice was … Continue reading

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“Bridging the Social Media Divide”

There’s this hashtag on Twitter – #bsmd, which stands for “Bridging the Social Media Divide”. The first meeting was hosted by Pinstorm, and discussed (according to the Pinstorm blog) “how marketers and social media enthusiasts can work together and forge … Continue reading

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Paper Money

There was a wonderful post in the Edelman Digital blog titled ‘The Last Newspaper‘. An insightful, well balanced and objective take on stories and content which perhaps captures the newspaper and web relationship best. From the post Stories are personal … Continue reading

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Local Social Networks

I’m guessing most of you reading this use GTalk. Recently, a new service called GTalk Profile was launched. While, so far, you could add people only via their email ids, GTalk Profile helps you find other people using your location … Continue reading

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News..yes. Papers?

Rupert Murdoch recently stated that the doomsayers predicting the end of the newspaper industry are off the mark. According to him, online readers also need news form a source that they can trust, and that’s what newspapers have always been … Continue reading

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