From the monthly archives:

October 2007

Looking at Webcrossing Neighbors

October 31, 2007

Jim Bert, VP of Business Development from Webcrossing took me through a demo of Webcrossing Neighbors the other day. It’s a functional and tested plug-and-play social networking platform that the company provides for groups and enterprises. Reminds me of Facebook in many ways … lots of customizable pages with widgets you can add … see [...]

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links for 2007-10-31

October 31, 2007

Decker Marketing: Why, How and Who of Web 2.0 Notes on explaining Web 2.0 to a non-social media savvy audience. (tags: samdecker socialmedia web2.0 enterprise2.0) New Study on Media Relations Reveals How Journalists Use Web 2.0 Technologies: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance “While almost a third of journalists do not cover blogs, more than a [...]

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links for 2007-10-30

October 30, 2007

Diva Marketing Blog – Marketing blogs and corporate social media strategies for innovative companies Toby shares an a-ha moment – “In order to engage executives around social media, they need to feel comfortable.” (tags: tobybloomberg, divamarketing, socialmedia, corporatesocialmedia, socialmediastrategies, enterprise2.0) How To: The Ultimate Consumerist Guide To Fighting Back (Revised Edition) A good collection of [...]

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links for 2007-10-28

October 28, 2007

Modi, The Butcher of Gujarat at Blogbharti a collection of opinions on blogs around the tehelka expose on the giuarat govt’s role in the 2002 riots (tags: gujaratriots2002 narendramodigovernment prosecutetheguilty humanrights) Skype Journal: A Primer for Skype’s Direction: Mobile Conversations Jim Courtney dissects Skype on Mobile (tags: skype mobileskype jimcourtney skypejournal) YouTube – The Day [...]

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Gujarat 2002-Tehelka Expose – What can we do as citizens?

October 27, 2007

A commenter who calls himself/herself ‘takeaction’ left this information at my earlier post where I expressed my horror at the blatant role of the Modi Government and its allies in the Gujarat 2002 riots: “I think people of India and Indian diaspora can do something beyond just discussing this in egroups and blogs. The Tehelka [...]

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links for 2007-10-27

October 27, 2007

“Choose Your Own Ethnography: In Search of (Un)Mediated Life” danah on ethnography in a networked world (tags: danahboyd ethnographer ethnography research anthropology technology myspace)

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links for 2007-10-25

October 25, 2007

IFTF’s Future Now: “Twittering while California burns”: Social Media and Disasters Points to Rafe Needleman’s prediction that the next disaster would be twittered. (tags: socialmedia, onlinedisastermanagement, socialmediaanddisasters) The South Asian Literary Recordings Project Launched in April 2000, to record the voices of South Asian authors for the Library of Congress’ Archive of Recorded World Literature, [...]

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Talk to me, Helena Rubinstein!

October 25, 2007

When a woman thinks about her body and beauty she is sensitive, and when a product is new or gifted to her, it is often embarrassing to say, I don’t really know how to use it. By not talking to her or enabling a conversation with her, you actually make her wonder whether you really [...]

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Gujarat Riots: Tehelka Expose

October 25, 2007

Tehelka has proof on camera that brings to light the compliance of the State machinery in Gujarat in the riots in 2002. The news is breaking on Tv channels AajTak (in Hindi) and Headlines Today (in English), as I write this. It is reported that Narendra Modi gave the rioters 3 days to do what [...]

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links for 2007-10-24

October 24, 2007

The Odyssey Years – New York Times “There used to be four common life phases: childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. Now, there are at least six: childhood, adolescence, odyssey, adulthood, active retirement and old age. Of the new ones, the least understood is odyssey, the decade (tags: generation odyssey socialtrends youth) Facebook Set to [...]

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Social technologies must be lived in to be understood”

October 24, 2007

 Jim McGee is celebrating his 6th blog anniversary. Congratulations Jim! He writes: “This space is a place where I try to get my own thinking straight and a way to immerse myself in the ongoing conversation of others trying to get their thinking straight. Some of them think in like-minded ways, others in very different [...]

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links for 2007-10-23

October 23, 2007

CW Bulletin | Social Media Measurement – October 2007 Issue on Social Media Measurement – article by Christopher Carfi in particular is good (tags: ROI businessblogging christophercarfi enterprise2.0 socialmediaROI socialmediameasurement) Life in the Real India Our new series captures the Real India, where 77 per cent of the population survives on Rs 20 (approx. US$ [...]

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Word of Mouth – more powerful in Asian countries

October 23, 2007

There’s been some recent discussion around whether Word of Mouth and Viral Marketing are indeed different. In my view, viral marketing is the outcome of word-of-mouth recommendations. And it’s not surprising to see Asians rely a lot on word of mouth in this study from Neilsen that reveals some interesting trends: – 7 of the [...]

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Panties for Democracy

October 22, 2007

Send your panties to Burmese embassies as a sign of protest for the atrocities being committed by the Burmese regime. A new wave of activism, Panties for Peace – a manoeuvre meant to embarrass and insult the Junta: “The manoeuvre is a calculated insult to the junta and its leader, General Than Shwe. Superstitious junta [...]

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