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Blogs & Blogging

Blogs & Blogging, Onlineactivism, Participatory Media, Social Media
Because I believe in citizen media
12.22.08 | Dina | Permalink | 1 Comment

If you do too, don’t hesitate to click the button below, this December.
Blogs & Blogging, Enterprise 2.0, Market Insights, Social Media
India Social Media Survey - Brands & Corporates
12.22.08 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

Take this - it’s a great start to collecting some good data:

We need your participation:

You can take the survey here- open until 24 December 2008 but don’t wait until the last day.

All valid participants get a FREE copy of Summary & Key Points from the “Overview of Blog & Social Media Environment in India”, [...]
Blogs & Blogging, Indian Culture
Why I am deleting comments
11.30.08 | Dina | Permalink | 11 Comments

I’m getting a huge load of comments around the politics of religion, of division and hate at my last few posts on the Mumbai terror attacks. While religion and politics may have a lot to do with the state of our world today, my blog’s not the forum to air or feed these divisions. I [...]
Blogs & Blogging, Social Media, Social Tools in Disasters
The Paradox of the Wisdom of Crowds
11.07.08 | Dina | Permalink | 4 Comments

I rediscovered this TED talk by James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds.
James Surowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering: the 2005 tsunami, when YouTube video, blogs, IMs and txts carried the news — and preserved moving personal stories from the tragedy.
. Thanks to [...]
Blogs & Blogging, Phweet
Phweet afloat in the Twitosphere and Blogosphere
08.23.08 | Dina | Permalink | 2 Comments

I’ve been helping out with the PhweetTalk - the Phweet blog and I’m cross-posting this here. I’ll probably be doing more of my blogging there for a while. And I’ve become a real Twitter monster - I update stuff I am doing very regularly there - so do check me out!
Since the public alpha [...]
Blogs & Blogging, Enterprise 2.0, Ethnography, Qualitative Research Perspectives, Social Media
Blogs for Market Research
05.13.08 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

We’re now working with another tech company on a research project which will include blogging and the use of twitter for both participants and researchers who are located all over the world. Some issues we’re grappling with:

how much coaching and of what kind is required for those participants who are not actively using blogs [...]
Blogs & Blogging, Social Media, Social Tools in Disasters, Voices of the World
It takes disasters …
05.13.08 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

…. to break my blogging hiatus. How helpless we are under the force of nature’s fury. Myanmar Cyclone 28,458 deaths & 33,416 missing. China Earthquake almost 10000 dead & mounting. All of this in less than 10 days.
There’s been a huge load of blogging and tweeting live as the earthquake and its aftermath [...]
Blogs & Blogging, Ethnography, Qualitative Research Perspectives
Friends of my blog …
12.18.07 | Dina | Permalink | 1 Comment

There’s nothing like blog friends to make you feel guilty about ignoring your blog!!!!! Stuart first slaps his own wrist makes his affirmations a couple of days ago, Aparna pings me today with a one-liner in her sign-off on a quick chat we had today:
“ok gotto go now - will talk more about [...]
Blogs & Blogging, Participatory Media
The difference between journalists and bloggers …..
11.21.07 | Dina | Permalink | 2 Comments

… according to Clyde Bentley, who’s guest-blogging at Mark Fraser’s MediaShift is .. Comments.
Here’s the quiz of the day for 21st Century Journalism 101: What makes news critics howl, able reporters swoon and strong editors weep? (Hint: The great unwashed and untutored of the blogosphere consider them pure manna.) If I could squeeze another [...]
Blogs & Blogging, Brand 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media
Freelance Blogger …?
11.19.07 | Dina | Permalink | 3 Comments

…. does this breed exist? I got a call today asking whether I would like to blog on a freelance basis for an Indian software start-up, on their site. They sent me this email when I turned it down, and requested that their name is kept out because “we don’t want to advertise we [...]
Blogs & Blogging, Conferences
Blogging Conferences - Personal and Social Motivations
11.15.07 | Dina | Permalink | 1 Comment

I’ve enjoyed Stuart’s perspectives and reflections on Why Presenters are Failing the Social Media Communications Test, on how presenters and conference organizers can encourage, share better and benefit from the content created through social media (twitter, blogging, flickr etc), are invaluable. What’s interesting too, are the comments there. This post from Dave Snowden seems [...]
Blogs & Blogging, Bridging The Divide Rural India, Social Media, Voices of the World
New Round of Microgrants available for Rising Voices
11.06.07 | Dina | Permalink | 1 Comment

Application Deadline: November 30, 2007
Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, is now accepting project proposals for the second round of microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for citizen media outreach projects. Ideal applicants will present innovative and detailed proposals to teach citizen media techniques to communities that are poorly positioned to discover and [...]
Blogs & Blogging, Brand 2.0, Indian Culture, Social Media
Bollywood meets Twitter
11.02.07 | Dina | Permalink | 4 Comments

I was informed by Twitter that “Saawariya” is following you. Saawariya? Now that’s the new Bollywood movie, yet to be launched! Curious, I went over to their twitter page, and actually found it’s not a spoof (at least I think so) but actually someone involved in marketing the film. They are following 705 [...]
Blogs & Blogging, Brand 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Frameworks & Models
From SLATES to FLATNESSES - Enterprise 2.0
11.02.07 | Dina | Permalink | 2 Comments

Like for Jon Husband, this article by Dion Hinchcliffe really resonates. I’ve always been a huge fan of Dion’s visualizations of models and frameworks - check them out at Flickr - and I couldn’t resist just reposting these two here:
from SLATES:

to FLATNESSES:

Read the full post called The state of Enterprise 2.0 for detailed explanations [...]
Blogs & Blogging, Brand 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media
Social technologies must be lived in to be understood”
10.24.07 | Dina | Permalink | 1 Comment

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 ways, [...]
Blogs & Blogging, Enterprise 2.0, Indian Culture, Market Insights, Social Media, Voices of the World
Word of Mouth - more powerful in Asian countries
10.23.07 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

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 [...]
Blogs & Blogging
Featured in The Sunday Express
10.20.07 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

My blog is featured in the Sunday edition of the Indian Express today in a column called Voice of Sanity :). Thanks Stuart, for making it so readable - I’ve been getting lots of good feedback on the layout!
A good description of Gaurav Sabnis’s blog is there too.

A lowdown on the top ranking Indian [...]
Blogs & Blogging, Voices of the World
wf07 - am wondering …
10.13.07 | Dina | Permalink | 9 Comments

….. why weren’t any of these amazing ladies at the Women’s Forum? (apart from Anina and yours truly)
A day in an astrologer’s life by Jacqueline Bigar
A Girl Must Shop by Megan Garnhum
A Little Pregnant by Julie
A Luminous Halo by Cicily Corbett
Alkamar by Susan Reid
Allied by Jeneane Sessum

A Look at Art & Design: by Lisa Mikulski [...]
Blogs & Blogging, Social Media, Voices of the World
In the media we trust, or should we? wf07
10.11.07 | Dina | Permalink | 1 Comment

One of the sessions that I felt would be interesting was this one. I sorely missed the fact that there was no blogger on the panel - surely bloggers are the Media too .. and one of the concerns mainstream media has around blogging is around veracity and trust! Would have loved to [...]
Blogs & Blogging, Social Media, Social Software Social Networks, Voices of the World
Off to Deauville, France
10.09.07 | Dina | Permalink | 3 Comments

Am speaking at the World Women’s Forum on the 11th and leaving for Paris tonight. Thought I’d just bring back a post I did a few days ago at Mosoci, on our session. There’s also going to be live-blogging from there, and I will do my bit too.
Women’s Forum for the Economy [...]