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Posts under ‘Social’
The List of Micro-Finance / Micro-Credit Institutions in India
Asmitha – Provides rural poor women access to financial resources in the form of collateral free small loans for income generation and livelihood promotion. This enables them to set-off small start up business, which soon translates into adequate nutrition, medical aid and education. With increased businesses, these low-income women become economic agents intrinsic to development [...]
Why Indian Non-Profits / Businesses are not using Social Media
Gaurav Mishra, CEO 20:20 Social – points to this interesting story on LiveMint by Saabira Chaudhari, titled The Anti-Social Nonprofit: Looking for Instant Gratification I have been a very social spammer cum observer from a long time and worked on social products like Rediff Q&A & Connexions in my previous avataars and now manage media [...]
Supernovas, Twittersphere, Blogosphere & the lostosphere
Dave Winer, Robert Scoble, Jeremiah Owyang, Steve Rubel any many others on the web are chatting over the a) benefits of going back to blogging, b) changing the way they blog or c) twittering less as its more noisy. Well I have been a fan of their blog and follower of their tweets and across [...]
Customer Service Trend : Volunteer, Social & People Powered
Hugh Pickens on Slashdot writes: Unpaid Contributors Provide Corporate Tech Support "The NY Times writes about Justin McMurry of Keller, TX, who spends up to 20 unpaid hours per week helping Verizon customers with high-speed fiber optic Internet, television and telephone service. McMurry is part of an emerging corps of Web-savvy helpers that large corporations, [...]
Social Networks, Uninhibited Life Broadcasting, Circle of Trust & Network Cleanliness
Trust means having confidence or faith in someone and a friend is a person you know well, have regards for and trust. Does this same apply to the people who are your friends on a social network. In real world, you have friends but you share you life with them on a meet or need [...]
Tweetbomb – a tweet which can save, shave or shake the world
@Keith Kliner talks about a very interesting phenomenon ‘tweetbomb’, some future tweet on twitter which has the potential to reach 100 million people, mobilize them and cause an ‘act’. Something very similar to flashmobs, but much more faster and at a very large scale. And not necessarily for good. What Keith Kliner talks about may [...]
The network theories, the actual size of your social network & the circle of intimacy
Image Courtesy : Sugree / Flickr Social Networking has become a loose term to define any kind of online connections and not the social relationships. Social Network term was in existance much before the advent of first online social network and we all need to blame Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon to trigger the wave [...]
Where are the new age polymaths ?
A polymath is a person whose knowledge is not restricted to one subject area. In less formal terms, a polymath (or polymathic person) may simply refer to someone who is very knowledgeable. Most ancient scientists were polymaths by today’s standards. Leonardo da Vinci is regarded as an archetypal "Renaissance Man" and is one of the [...]
Corporate Social Media in India
corporate blogs in india Infosys TCS Tata Interactive Systems Cleartrip.com Frito Lay Mahindra and Mahindra Ram Gopal Varma (The Factory ) Rajesh Jain (CEO, Netcore) Wipro brand building / digital marketing / community initiatives by corporates / brands in india sunsilkgangofgirls (HUL) – a ladies only community which promotes sunsilk range of hair [...]
Social Media & Marketing Game
Has Social Media changed the rules of the game Sachendra Yadav has posted this question on LinkedIn and collected the responses on his blog. For me the rule of the game remains the same and for me there is no thing such as social media marketing. I belive connecting with customers and social media is [...]
I Too Hate The Term ‘Social Media’ – But Here’s A Definition
Josh Bancroft is starting to hate the term social media. I too feel like John, that it’s the most overused and abused term these days. Well, then as an Internet Professional with 11 years of experience, can I attempt to define it myself. At least I can try. John, Steve, Robert & others ….please correct [...]
Social Networks User Experience Issues – Day 0, Hand Holding & Mimicing
Gerrit Visser on SmartMob talks about Robert Scobles keynote presentation at The NextWeb Conference where he talked about the user experience of social networks: Here is one user experience issue, friends divide and there is more on Robert Scobles blog: “But when ICQ was launched, the experiences of people started to diverge. ICQ users with [...]
Barcamp Bangalore – Free Camps Without Free Beer
Barcamp Bangalore 6 is happening on 19th and 20th April at IIMB. Visit the website and checkout how you can contribute – by attending, by volunteering or simply by blogging about it. Such camps are collective and democratic effort. Come here, share your experiences, learn from others or just mix and connect with some like [...]
Social Networks & Monetization
Nice article by Anupreeta Das on Gaurdian on Social Networks & Monetization. Social Networks are now entering into a maturing phase and monetization can no longer be treated as future promise. Not just social networks, but the viral widgets providers have started making money (for themselves). Investors who would put money without realizing the roadmap [...]
What does Indian Youth Do Online
Times : From MTV Insight Studio’s book, The State of Cool: Only 1 pc of young visitors of UGC sites actually upload any fresh or orginal. 90 pc are passive participators and 10 pc participate (in any form ) and leave comments There have been previous study in the past which had the same observations [...]
People Power & The Big C in The UGC
While some people are still debating the wisdom of crowd Vs professionalism and proclaiming that UGC is dead. Here is the best example of mass thinking and collaboration. This article on People Power cites numerous examples of how net users are coming together to change almost every aspect of our lives. People see UGC in [...]
Barry Harrigon on IT Companies Leveraging Social Media
Barry Harrigan cites example of how IT companies are leveraging the social media. It’s a must read article if you watching social media space and want to pick up some real world examples. Share and Enjoy:
Gaurav on Indian Social Networking Sites
Gaurav has written an excellent post on the problem with Indian social networking sites. I agree with Gaurav as most of the Indian SNS ventures are just mimics of the successful implementations in the western world. There is no unique story or experience in offering. Hey ! you can make friends on Facebook, leave the [...]
Mobocracy Rules
If you still feel the crowd has almost got no wisdom and only the professionals can rule the world, then check out this post by Danny Dover of SEOmoz where he talks about how a video reached number 1 on youtube and the mobocracy that let to its fall. The problem on social media is [...]
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