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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 […]
Brand 2.0, Social Media
Mosoci - The Future of Research?
02.05.08 | Dina | Permalink | 4 Comments

Hmmm. Was just chatting with Rajesh of Blogworks about working together on a potential social media project. We were trying to work out areas of competence between his company and ours. He made this observation and used a fine phrase to describe Mosoci - he said it is the Future of Research.
I […]
Frameworks & Models, Market Insights, Social Media
Twitter research .. in action!
02.05.08 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

Rob Paterson alerts me to Jeremiah Owyang’s social media experiment in a comment at my post a few days ago on Twitter for Ethnography:

From Rob’s post at the Fast Forward blog:
This is how Jeremiah framed it:
I’ve created MicroMedia events before, this time, I want to frame it as an overlay to the multi million dollar […]
Brand 2.0, Frameworks & Models, Knowledge, Market Insights, Qualitative Research Perspectives, Social Media
We participate therefore we are …
02.01.08 | Dina | Permalink | 1 Comment

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Great piece on Social Learning titled Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 by John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler. The supercool text illustrations are by Susan E. Haviland.
Some snippets I really enjoyed:
What do we mean by “social learning”? Perhaps the simplest way to explain this concept is to note […]
Ethnography, Frameworks & Models, Market Insights, Qualitative Research Perspectives, Social Media
Twitter for Ethnography
02.01.08 | Dina | Permalink | 7 Comments

There’s a discussion on at the anthrodesign group around how best to approach a diary project. An excerpt from the initial query:
“We’ll be fielding a diary study trying to understand people’s initial experiences with a new mobile phone, particularly understanding the set up experience and the first few days of use. We are […]
Mobile, Social Media, Social Software Social Networks
Twitter Shortcode for India
01.31.08 | Dina | Permalink | 3 Comments

Aaah finally …. a Twitter shortcode for India which means we don’t pay international SMS charges! Nice. Thanks to Moksh Juneja for pointing this out. The shortcode is 5566511.
“Twitter asks you to verify your phone so we know that you’re you. You’ll never be signed up for mobile updates unless you […]
Social Media
Tweeting about a Twitter Meet-up in Mumbai
12.20.07 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

It’s a first for Mumbai Tweeters. Gaurav Mishra has the details. See you there!
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Onlineactivism, Social Media, Voices of the World
Take Back the Tech …
11.23.07 | Dina | Permalink | 1 Comment

November seems to be full of online activism days and weeks! Today’s the Buy Nothing Day, here’s another one - to end Violence Against Women:

Cheekay Cinco of APC Women writes to inform me of this campaign to end violence against women. This is a collaborative campaign by ICT users, advocates, collectives and organisations […]
Blogs & Blogging, Brand 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media
Freelance Blogger …?
11.19.07 | Dina | Permalink | 2 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 […]
Social Media
Variations on a theme - the long tail of pain
11.19.07 | Dina | Permalink | 1 Comment

Hehe … this is funny … and real!

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Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, Social Software Social Networks
Orkut vs Facebook in Indian Organisations
11.13.07 | Dina | Permalink | 4 Comments

I was at a meeting today, and I learnt that Orkut is banned by the organization, but not Facebook and LinkedIn. I was told this is true in many organizations in India. The perception is that Orkut is frivolous and people spend lots of time playing. The funny thing is, I have never spent […]
Ethnography, Social Media, Social Software Social Networks
JCMC Special Theme Issue on “Social Network Sites”
11.13.07 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

Wow!!!! What a great collection of articles - I haven’t yet read them in detail but the titles themselves are really promising - covering a whole range of issues in the area of social networking - politics, interpersonal relationships, civic engagement, trust, copyright, community, cultural differences, mobile, And all seem to be backed by real […]
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 […]
Brand 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media
Looking at Webcrossing Neighbors
10.31.07 | Dina | Permalink | 2 Comments

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 […]
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 […]
Brand 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Frameworks & Models, Social Media
Social Media Strategies - lets remember Maslow!
10.18.07 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

Got this link from Tara Hunt’s links - a good primer on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Motivational Model originally developed in the 40’s and 50’s with adaptations from the 1970’s (cognitive and aesthetic needs added) and 1990’s (transcendence needs added). The basic premise of the model is:
Each of us is motivated by needs. […]
Brand 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media
Listening better …
10.16.07 | Dina | Permalink | 3 Comments

Valeria Maltoni asks, Why the media is not telling your story - where she suggests, “beat the reported to the punchline and write your own story … and your destiny.”
In addition to learning how to tell our story well, I do believe that part of the problem is we are so flooded with so much […]
Brand 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media
What does being in ‘beta’ mean?
10.14.07 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

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This post was triggered off by David Armano’s share on Life in Beta. I like living life in beta. I like working in beta too. Mosoci has a beta sign against it, for that reason. So does our Brand 2.0 bootcamp. Many people at the Women’s Forum asked […]