Twitter and Activism
One early use of Twitter had El Fattah and a dozen or so of his collegues coordinating movements to surround a car in which their friend Malek was being held by the police, to prevent it and him from...
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LinkedIn and The New York Times Team up
In a recent development(or is it?), LinkedIn and The New York Times have joined hands for a tie up. I stumbled upon this while surfing NYT and a few clicks revealed how it works. Here’s the deal for...
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Television Banking: ICICIActive on DishTV
Got this email from ICICI bank yesterday about launch of what they call “Tevelision Banking”. All that the email contained was this image. To be honest this is the first time I heard the term...
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Rickshaw Road Shows
Road shows are a common marketing activity in Delhi and rest of North India. It’s not uncommon to find big brands like Spencer’s, Horlicks, etc doing road shows to promote a new store or a new product....
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Social Media Case Study – Charity: Water
Charity: water is a charity started by Scott Harrison that provides clean water to save lives in poor countries. Charity: water has successfully raised $10 million (most of that last year alone) from...
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It’s About Being Remarkable Stupid
I’ve been a great fan of Seth Godin ever since I read ‘The Purple Cow’ early last year. I really liked the book and am re-reading it again The book talks about how a product/idea needs to be...
View Article5th Annual Small Business Summit 2010 Highlights
About 8 months ago I complied a presentation containing best tweets from Social Gaming Summit 2009 which got a good response and appreciation so I thought of doing the same for #smallbizsummit. Here’s...
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Lessons in Business from Bala Balachandran
About a couple weeks back I happened to come to know about Mr Bala Balachandran from a friend of mine who also shared with me the printouts of an article titled “I firmly believe that all customers are...
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Gaping Void: Desperate
I’ve been following the work of Hugh Macleod for quite some time now. He’s not only a great cartoonist but a lot more. Here’s today Cartoon from the Gaping Void newsletter(Subscribe), hope you too will...
View ArticleTen Inspiring Ted Talks For Startups
Check out this excellent compilation of 10 Inspiring Ted Talks for Startups http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/07/ten-inspiring-ted-talks-for-st.php I particularly like the talks # 6,7 and 9 Which...
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Thoughts on Start-up Hiring
Hiring is undoubtedly one of the hardest part of doing a start-up. Getting the right set of people to work for you is easier said than done and almost every start-up founder is in ‘always hiring’...
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