Reading Bytes for May 6

May 6, 2010

Daily updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina What a great sensory anchor or imprint for a brand! The Scent of Memory: Design, Experience & Perfume | via @futurescape – CLIP: “Scent design. Scent is place and memory—it is experience recalled. Every [...]

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Reading Bytes for May 4 – Education, Social Publishing, Mobiles and Marketing

May 4, 2010

Daily updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina A Social Publishing Strategy by @gkjohn at @kanter covers education/publishing. love the skype reading sessions esp. – “Our strategy has relied upon being part of a larger mission, providing meaningful and valuable content, curating [...]

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10 Tactics – Turning Information into Action

April 29, 2010

This is a post that’s long overdue, since the time the film was released! I was spurred to write it this morning, as I’m quite excited to be on a panel discussion at the screening of Tactical Tech’s film called 10 Tactics – Turning Information into Action. The screening is at the Conference Room of [...]

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Reading Bytes for Apr 19

April 19, 2010

Daily updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina The Economist on innovation models – jugaad, shanzai – in emerging markets – From Jugaad in India to Shanzai in China. CLIPS: "A second area where the Chinese excel is in “bandit” or “guerrilla” [...]

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How twitter helps me dig into work

April 16, 2010

I was asked this question at the Anthrodesign group, in the context of a conversation around getting into the swing of a project and developing some working momentum . I shared there, how I often find myself turning to my blog and twitter communities for helping me with my thinking on qualitative and ethnographic research [...]

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Reading Bytes for Apr 11

April 11, 2010

Daily updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina on Twitter. The Triumph of the Ordinary Cellphone – NYTimes.com | by @anandwrites [via @sunil_abraham] – Reality check – or different cultures of innovation?? CLIP: “Forgotten in the American tumult is a global flowering [...]

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Durability – is it losing power as a customer driver – Part 3

April 11, 2010

Fantastic post from Manu Prasad that broadens the discussion on Durability and takes it forward in new directions. Brand equity is something that falls naturally into the scope of this discussion. But what i was more interested in its impact on the content that brands create, including their communication. Look at say, print ads, whose [...]

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Deepening my Design Thinking

April 11, 2010

Abundance  - i’d certainly add that as a key principle . I’ve been spending time at Slideshare checking out presentations on principles, processes, personas, ideation, creativity, scenarios and story in Design Thinking for new product development (NPD as researchers often call it, and covers the areas of User Experience, User Design, ). By no means [...]

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Texting and Learning

April 11, 2010

My new Yoga teacher speaks no English. He’s young, and comes from a small town in the North. He’s moved to Mumbai to make a living. And still, he communicates via SMS so well, and has evolved his own form of English. I asked him how come he doesn’t text in Hindi, he says its [...]

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Reading Bytes for Apr 9

April 9, 2010

Daily updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina Skype and iPhone 4.0 – Telecoms and Social Networks | @stuarthenshall – CLIP "Unfortunately this means… VoIP on the iPhone is really just a dumb pipe. What’s important is the CallerID. Rich CallerID’s will [...]

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Reading Bytes for Apr 3

April 3, 2010

Daily updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina Liveblogging from TEDx Mumbai – The India Uncut Blog – India Uncut – Some classy live-blogging by Amit Varma during TEDx Mumbai. Its an art he's mastered really well He's captured information, essence and [...]

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#TEDxMumbai – my quick reflections

April 3, 2010

I had a lot of fun today at TEDxMumbai. Was great to catch up with old friends, and made some new ones. The speakers were quite interesting and moving especially when they were ‘presenting’ through the narrative of story; some of them really worthy of being on any main TED stage. I tweeted that I [...]

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Reading Bytes for Mar 31

March 31, 2010

Daily updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina Using Mobile Phones To Broadcast News – Gaon ki Awaaz (voice of the village) & another among tribals [via @timepass] – This is an interesting service in the area of participatory media and distributed [...]

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Durability – is it losing power as a customer driver [part 2]

March 31, 2010

Some of my blog readers have left really thoughtful comments at my last post on Durability. I’m attempting to synthesize them here, (and I hope I’m not killing the wonderful nuances they’ve shared), as each thought adds a unique and new facet to the many dimensions and interpretations of durability, in a rapidly-changing market like India. [...]

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