The path to transparency
Google Me is already showing great results, even before its launch. Maybe its the fear of whatever-it-is-going-to-be that has made Facebook release a couple of tools a few days […]
Hairsay
So, the Old Spice man increased the sales of the product. Now we can renew the debate on the efficacy of social media on the bottom line. We obviously […]
The brand your brand could be like
The world seems to have loved the Old Spice guy horsing around. Even though the campaign had been around for a while, (via Surekha) the last couple of weeks […]
Influence Cycles
The term ‘influencer’ is a recurring one in social media. Mahendra had a tongue-in-click post last week on the subject, and Surekha and I ended up taking it on […]
Services, Information, People
Even as the first trailer of ‘The Social Network‘ was released last week, and even as fresh rounds of humour/angst on Facebook’s privacy algo (Google’s too) are unleashed regularly, […]
Square Routes
Despite my niggle with location based services (specifically Foursquare) – that the game part is taking away from the social/utility part of it, I still believe that they’re an […]
Banking on data
There was an article recently at PSFK, which, in addition to the impending data explosion, also talks of the need for brands to invest in technology to mine, analyse […]
PR – Public Relationship
The control a brand has, or rather the lack of it, was evident in two examples I saw recently. Both became viral, one at a very small level, and […]
On location.. and beyond
A few weeks back, @gkjohn and I were invited to Chandu’s Military hotel in Malleswaram by the inimitable @parthajha . After an amazing meal, we walked back to where […]
Go-to-social media
A few weeks back, I’d mentioned Tac Anderson’s ‘3 types of social media strategy‘ . To quickly summarise, the first is the ‘toe-in-the-water’ approach (not really a strategy), the […]