Creative Chaos - Dina Mehta’s Weblog 
Last week, I attended the Round Table on Assessing the Efficacy of Information and Communication Technologies for Public Initiatives, hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore, on 17 June 2009, in collaboration with the Liberty Institute, New Delhi.
The discussion was really interesting, and I do hope it is the start of many [...]
Came across this really interesting presentation from Chris Messina on designing for the Social Web. The new assumptions are:
And then, some more:
Here’s his presentation on Slideshare - there are some good lessons spelt out in there for each of the assumptions.
New Assumptions for Designing for the Social Web
The verdict is out. An article at Business Standard (link shared with me by @aparnaray who writes Newsmericks and who encouraged me to blog my thoughts) called Impassive Indians reveals findings from a study conducted by IMRB International on the impact of the political campaigns on youth in India. What’s evident from this study [...]
This is really cool - Social Media Marketing GPS. It’s a book being written entirely on Twitter. Interesting experiment. I’m following the evolution of this Tweet-book #smgps and see valuable comments and questions around many of the Tweets - I wonder whether these will be incorporated into the book too in true crowdsourcing spirit!
From Toby’s [...]
Sampad Swain points to this Election Page from Google which is an interesting mashup on the Lok Sabha 2009 Elections, in partnership with a bunch of organizations and groups like the Association For Democratic Reforms, HT Media, Indicus Analytics, Janaagraha Centre For Citizenship and Democracy (the Jaago Re folks), Liberty Institute, PRS Legislative Research
From [...]
I couldn’t agree more with Katie Allison Granju (Mamapundit):
In other words, if a social media consultant’s only interest in and experience with the field comes as a result of trying to earn a living off of telling other people how to do this thing, well, I would see that as a real weakness. Personal engagement [...]
This is a pretty fantastic visualization connecting your conversations on Twitter. From Google’s recently launched Chrome Experiments, which showcases JavaScript intensive games, apps, and visualizations. I did some runs on some keywords and its pretty amazing. Here’s a screenshot of visualizations of the connections and cross-connections between tweeters I (@dina) have had conversations with in [...]
Anthropology and Activism in Pakistan with lullabies - A great example of Anthropology being used in Activism:”A few days ago, Pakistani anthropologist Samar Minallah lauched a “video song”, a tribute to little girls in all the regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan where schools are being destroyed, depriving girls of their right to education, The News [...]
I’ve been quiet here but have been reading. And playing games - I think I am quite addicted to some of them - Alphattack is my current fav and I’m determined to crack level 18 on hard to get the award. And I’m trying to get back sculpted arms!!!
I find myself opening GoogleReader less often [...]
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Gaurav Mishra says he’s “the marketer who hates the social media hustle”. And yet he finds himself hustling, as he believes much of what we do in social media is hustle:
But social media is all about the hustle, it’s all about working the room, and, indeed, working your social networks, doing anything you need to [...]
Priyanka Kargupta is an 8 year old living in Maryland, USA. She’s set up Kids for Mumbai - to help those affected by the Mumbai Terror Attacks. I personally don’t know her, just got an email from her, and would encourage you to assess it for yourselves before donating. She’s provided links to her Dad [...]
A whole lot of questions are being asked about whether the Twitter #mumbai feed was citizen journalism or not. Many ’sides’ are emerging in this debate. I found this post (thru’ a tweet by @MaryHodder) which asks How Should Journalists Use Twitter? I’m not so sure it’s the right question to be asking … here’s [...]
From Suketu Mehta’s heartfelt piece in the OpEd at New York Times:
If the rest of the world wants to help, it should run toward the explosion. It should fly to Mumbai, and spend money. Where else are you going to be safe? New York? London? Madrid?
So I’m booking flights to Mumbai. I’m going to go [...]
{updated: 28 November 10.30 am IST}
Some helpline numbers:
List of Injured and Deceased
JJ Hospital +91 22 23739031
St George’s Hospital - +91 22 22620240
Mumbai Police’s Helpline Numbers
Taj helpline numbers for info about people stuck inside - +91 -22-66574322, +91-22-66574372, local toll free 1-800-111-825
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Here’s a very neat mashup of GoogleEarth and Twitter for ethnography (it’s in French). @thiteu sent me the link on Twitter.
This work is a simulation of a 3 dimensional Geography using GOOGLE EARTH and of a social signal using TWITTER in ethnography nowadays.
Cool? Yeah. Imagine Second Life sort of re-enactments of the whole world [...]
I recently read that shopper marketing strategies are being affected by how customers behave online. From this article, Connect the Dots at the Hub:
Our conversation with consumers and shoppers today is one way; we send them our advertisements and promotions. But we now live in a conversational culture because of the internet and what it’s [...]
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 [...]
In his short ebook: Fishing Where the Fish Are - Mapping Social Media to the BuyingCycle Chris Brogan offers up some good practical advice on social media approaches, tools and strategies. Relying on stories and examples, it’s a good demonstration of effectively communicating strategies to:
1.) Find the Customer - listening tools, search.
2.) Be There Before [...]
| "Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be conversation?" Guy de Maupassant |  |
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