Endurance Models
I’d ended last week’s post wondering about the role of durability in the design of communication and organisational structures. Dina has continued the discussion on her blog, adding on […]
In duress
A few days back, when I met Balu and Conall, we happened to talk about the lifecycles of services (Twitter and Foursquare was the context) and then discuss whether […]
Brands – Interesting vs Popular
These days, Reader is helping me find a balance that contains both ‘interesting’ and ‘popular’ content. I came upon a very interesting post on Reader via Mahendra Palsule, which […]
Wide Labels
I ended last week’s post with the view that removal of labels and building in the intent and components of these labels into an organisation’s processes might result in […]
Effective Cause
The Pepsi Refresh project is something I keep bumping into, inside this blog, as well as conversations outside. I admit to a bias towards it, because I somehow sense […]
Social Scalability
When I see brands and organisations take a piecemeal approach towards social media – either the token presence or the department focus-based approach, I sense that theĀ need for a […]
Brands and consumer social influence
Sometime back, I had read a post on Inquisitr very interestingly titled “Let’s bring some reality to this social media game“. Although my expectation of reality was slightly different […]
The Fifth Estate?
I remember an almost-discussion on twitter a while back, with shefaly and gkjohn, on whether was a tech company or a media company. The context was the Android getting […]
De-privacy
The Twitter discussion last week with Surekha and Karthik, was mostly about attribution, but it had another facet to it – privacy. Last week, a childhood photo of mine […]
People, Organisations, Media
Shashi Tharoor. Sachin Tendulkar. The connection is not just the initials, but also VISA. Get it? š So, anyway, Tharoor’s tweets (again) created a minor ‘controversy’ and I observed […]