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All This ChittahChattah | I Need You to Need Me – Needs vs Wants – which is the better research question?<br />
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The FASTForward Blog » Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Research from Cecile Demailly: Commentary by Bill Ives – CLIP: The report suggests that, “communicating externally about the internal change may help to change the mindsets internally.” ...
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The Social Media Expert Crisis Descends – "If you’ve gotten 200 followers for your corporate Twitter account in Sydney, and sent out 20 tweets, that’s now ample qualification that you are a social media ...
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Time to Rewrite the Brand Playbook for Digital – Advertising Age – CMO Strategy – CLIP: " .. a lot of marketing professionals also tend to forget that brands have always been the products ...
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The net generation, unplugged | The Economist – CLIP: "Michael Wesch, who pioneered the use of new media in his cultural anthropology classes at Kansas State University, is also sceptical, saying that many of ...
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Putting people first » Internet on mobiles: evolution of usability and user experience. PhD dissertation. – Overview and Article Downloaded. [lib.tkk.fi] and [lib.tkk.fi] />
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random thoughts on being an entrepreneur | @gapingvoid – Some of my favourites:
7. People buy your product because it helps fill in the narrative gaps in their lives.
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Best Connected Individuals Are Not the Most Influential Spreaders in Social Networks – CLIPS: "…. the importance of hubs may have been overstated, say Kitsak and pals. "In contrast to common belief, the most ...
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Calling non-USA based women activists – CLIP: "Today I'm proud to announce the BlogHer 2010 International Activist Scholarship Program. Here's how it works: If you or someone you know is a woman blogger, outside ...
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Final hiccups solved! Ever since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, I’ve been struggling to get my netconnect broadband modem to work as well as it previously did. I’ve blogged about my initial hiccups, where I thought I’d found a great ...
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A New Mobile Radar concept from Nokia Research Centre | via @tsuvik – Make sure you check out the video too! CLIP: "Nokia Research Center (NRC) Helsinki today unveiled a new research concept at ...
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Mattel takes innovation to the dogs with its Puppy Tweets – CLIP: "Puppy Tweets is a plastic tag with a sound and motion sensor that you attach to your pet's dog collar and connect ...
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Smartphones Market – CLIP: "For more from Tomi this is a 30min video that makes the case for the next 4billion users and more importantly reinforces the opportunity just around the corner. Some great ...
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Demographic Dividend Theory – A parable of India’s Growth – CLIP: To this effect, a recent report published by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has estimated that ...
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Go thataway: Google Maps India learns to navigate like a local
Much better Googlemaps!! CLIPS: We found that using landmarks in directions helps for two simple reasons: they are easier to see than street signs and they are easier to ...
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Go thataway: Google Maps India learns to navigate like a local – Much better Googlemaps!! CLIPS: We found that using landmarks in directions helps for two simple reasons: they are easier to see than ...
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Global Voices Online » A Global Look at Anti-Corruption Day | cool initiative. Reminded me of Shaffi Mather's TEDTalk
This reminded me of Shaffi Mather's TEDTalk on a new way to fight corruption – a for-profit BPO kinda service to ...
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Not new, but a good reminder through a neat collation of tips on how to deal with a digital business crisis. It is meant for marketers and social media agencies operating in the Enterprise 2.0 space, either for marketing their ...
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The Children of Cyberspace A New World | this is vintage @robpatrob !
CLIP: "I got my first computer in 1981 a Mac11 – at 31, I was early. My son got his first computer when he was 9. He ...
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I was chatting with a friend today who’s not a Twitter user, and trying to explain why I like it, and why so many people do too. I found myself turning to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and his Theory of ...
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Social Media in India: 7 Findings from 2009, 7 Wishes for 2010 | S.M.A.R.T objectives @sm63
CLIPS: "# We are very pleased to see a big shift from our agency friends. I mean, the advertising, PR and media buying agency ...
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An article titled Social Networking plagues India Inc which is based on a survey conducted by Assocham just goes to show that they’re really sleeping or threatened, while their world’s moving forward!
A recent national survey conducted by the Associated ...
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"Do you See What I See?: Visibility of Practices through Social Media" from @zephoria
danah boyd discusses different dimensions of visibility in her paper presented at Supernova and Le Web. San Francisco and Paris, 1 and 10 December 2009. CLIPS: ...
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The Facebookisation of the enterprise | a well-written thought piece from @jobsworth
JP is on fire! Stuart and I were just yesterday discussing how organizations that block social networks are really silly, given that employees now access social networks on ...
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Logic+Emotion: Do You Live Social? | a great question to ask managers engaging in social media activities
This is so imperative for any brand custodian – so much so that Stuart and I had designed a postcard with a brand ...
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5 Forecasts and 7 Predictions For 2010-2020 That Shape Innovation And Economic Growth – BusinessWeek
What lies ahead, now that America’s Lost Decade and Asia’s Best Decade are behind us? I just returned from a month in Singapore, China and ...
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Hehe. From Gogola ice creams to Googlle Institute of Software Studies, where you can even get a special Googlle certification!
I wonder if Googlle Institute came before or after the real Google’s 11th anniversary celebratory logo on 27 November, 2009??...
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Image from: Wikipedia. Kairos as portrayed in a 16th century fresco by Francesco Salviati
“Chronos is clocks, deadlines, watches, calendars, agendas, planners, schedules, beepers. Chronos is time at her worst. Chronos keeps track. …Chronos is the world’s time. Kairos is ...
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I couldn’t help taking these pictures off television today. And turned off TV entirely. Which I should have done a week ago, with all the rehashing of events on 26/11 last year. Just because you have so much footage during ...
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I asked this question on Twitter this morning and have had fabulous responses from a very alert and vibrant community there. Thought I’d share:
My question – need egs of advertising anchored in rites of passage – rituals assocd w ...
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"Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media" | @zephoria
As we continue to move from a broadcast model of information to a networked one, we will continue to see reworkings of the information landscape. Some ...
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Gartner – From Wow to Shallow Thinking on Mobile Futures | @stuarthenshall i like the Wow thinking
CLIP: Gartner has produced a list to suggest where is mobile going “Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Consumer Mobile Applications for 2012” I’ve ...
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BSNL, EnableM & OnMobile Launch Learn English: The Opportunity | MediaNama – thanks for the pointer @nixxin
CLIP: "BSNL has launched an spoken English mobile learning program called “Learn English” powered by EnableM in association with OnMobile Global, looking to ...
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Digital Strangelove …. the Intention Economy … or WTF Social Media? David Gillespie, Account Director at Maclaren McCann, Toronto shares a great presentation (263 slides). There’s a lot that speaks to the fact that all media is social, it is about ...
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An Increasingly Affluent Middle India Is Harder to Ignore – India Knowledge@Wharton
Slightly dated but interesting article on Small Towns in India,based on two studies that attempt to look beyond the numbers: "The Bunty Syndrome," by advertising agency Euro RSCG ...
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Storylistening for Consumer Insight – AMSRS
CLIPS: "A recent poll stated that women spend 52 minutes a day gossiping – and before the men start sniggering, apparently they spend an average of 76 minutes daily spinning yarns with their mates. ...
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My Impressions of TED India | @amitvarma's impressions of TEDIndia
Here's a Clip from Amit Varma's impressions of TEDIndia. I can't agree with him more despite our different approaches to life . I absolutely loved being there, loved the people ...
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Young minds through the lens of young eyes.
The day after coming back from TEDIndia I was catapulted back into work – preparing for a big presentation-workshop today, which was good. This was in Gurgaon, and I spent the evening ...
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Actually, my super lazy blogpost post TEDIndia. It was an absolutely fantastic experience and the best part was meeting such a great group of people. I feel incredibly fortunate, and humbled to have been a TEDIndia Fellow.
I’ll be blogging ...
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HOW TO: Measure Social Media ROI – a guide from @mashable
CLIP: "Companies and executives are finally beginning to really jump on the social media bandwagon, and that’s fantastic. However, for social media to fully work (for everyone), businesses and ...
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Sentient City: Interview w Fabien Girardin | research on how new tech shapes public spaces and hybrid cities
Clips: "I understand a public space as an area or place that is open and accessible to all citizens without discriminations; Nowadays ...
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How C.K. Prahalad's Bottom of the Pyramid Strategies Are Paying Off – Knowledge@Wharton | mobile phone industry as an eg.!
An interview with C.K.Prahalad where he talks of the wireless cell phone industry at the bottom of the pyramid. Clip: ...
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I upgraded to Snow Leopard and went off to Khandala for the weekend, assuming everything will work quicker! Most things did, and my three year old macbook is really quick again, but I had problems with opening powerpoint ...
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I’ve had my share of problems with my black Macbook!! Two hard disk crashes (one was before I got Time Machine and was not pleasant) and now a swollen battery. The first symptom was that I found my trackpad was ...
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Evangelist: Think! says @elsua in a great post on social computing and the corporate world
CLIP (ed): "During all of this time I have been thinking about my role as a technology evangelist, specially in the area of Social Software, ...
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There Will Be Web Jobs for Social Scientists | good news [via @ndhanthro at anthrodesign group]
"Social Science Meets Technology in Next-Generation Jobs," – report by Gartner that discusses four areas of jobs in the near future, which implies that ...
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The Progress Project is the initiative set up by Nokia and Lonely Planet that is focused on capturing the human impact of mobile innovation; tackling social, environmental or economic challenges; bringing to life real stories of people through video. The ...
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FutureChat - Indian Crafts and Mobiles | interesting thoughts around craftsmen, artisans & mobile innovations!
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This is the last post in the series on Mobile Innovations based on a learning journey that I was a part of. Here’s the full series:
Mobile Innovations - Introduction
Nokia Life Tools - Agriculture Service - “The Internet for ...
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I took this picture of Dhanaji Dongre, the farmer we visited during our Nokia Life Tools immersions, on my test N97 (which has a pretty cool camera but a lousy touch-screen esp. when compared to the iPhone). He is taking ...
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It’s how Natesh, Head of Nokia Life Tools India describes the program - I like the realism when he uses ‘million’ and not ‘millions’ or ‘billion’! Alan Reiter, who was with us during our rural immersions has a great article ...
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Umesh Markat, a 9th grade school boy, shyly rattles off this line, quietly proud that he can actually string together a sentence in English! Another example of a sentence in English he shared with us - “Raja Ravi Verma is ...
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InfoLady - the rural mobile troubleshooter | via @rmack & @whiteafrican
Clip: "The village information workers, 'mobile ladies', were renamed 'info ladies'. An info lady possesses a laptop or classmate computer, internet modem, headphone, webcam, digital camera, ...
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UsageWatch | Observing the evolution of technology usage - my friend Rama sent me this link on facebook.
Clips: "… We have thousand of pages of heartwrenching accounts of separations by people sent off to work, fight or study in ...
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#FollowFriday: Dead Or Alive? | nice lil dipstick survey results by @pujamadan
Imagine this: you take the same bus to work everyday. You spend a good one hour, sitting, looking out the window, reading a book, chatting up your neighbour, ...
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Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll — New York Magazine
Clip: " … She has a MySpace page and a Livejournal. And she tells me that the ...
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For a few days over the next two weeks, I’m going to be a “scribe” where I will visit with people who’s lives are being transformed through mobile innovations. This will be in rural Maharashtra and Kolhapur, and the two ...
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This one’s especially for my more recent readers and newer members of my community here, on Facebook and on Twitter. I was interviewed by BlogAdda. It was interesting to be able to reflect a bit upon my early days of ...
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Religious Groups Turn to Technology | cool article by @evgenymorozov
If you had to choose one weapon for fighting the next religious war, you could do worse than to pick an iPhone. In recent months, the foot ...
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Tweetable Eats: What Street Vendors Can Teach Businesses About Twitter | nice post from @marketingprofs
Clip: "Lots of businesses on Twitter are doing it right. But, lately, I’ve been finding inspiration less from those companies that have ...
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Over 100 Million Rural Mobile Subscribers In India - Opportunity For MVAS | WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India
Clips: "According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), there has been a rise ...
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Mobile Market Report – SMS Usage in Urban India |mobile
Clips: "The report is analyzed using mobile service usage data for March 2009 to May 2009 time frame. 5,959 respondents were interviewed and their data projected to ...
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Web 2.0 Five Years On: Web 2.0 Summit 2009 | thought-provoking read fm @timoreilly & John Battelle
(tags: web2.0 oreilly future internet web Trends data blog whitepaper ...
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Hehe - saw this in Bandra today. I like the detailing - the search bar says “Golas made from mineral water ice”; the address bar “httt://www.gogola.in/”. Even the status bar at the bottom isn’t spared! Golas are India’s answer to ...
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Social Media - The Challenge of Adoption - [@robpatrob] Rob’s Dummies Guide, Rob asks, why is adoption not more evident?
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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, ...
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How to Jailbreak your iPhone to OS 3.0 | via @rww
Clip: "PwnageTool versus Redsn0w versus Ultrasn0w: What?!? If you're new to jailbreaking, you might be confused by the names being tossed around out there: PwnageTool? Redsn0w? ...
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Not Nice…Necessary | Tara @missrogue Hunt's take on why Twitter 'Rawks' resonates.
Clip: "It’s the connection I feel to the people I follow when they make me smile, or feel sad or feel passionate about something. It’s ...
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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 - ...
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Eyetrack III - What You Most Need to Know
Clip: "News websites have been with us for about a decade, and editors and designers still struggle with many unanswered questions: Is homepage layout effective? … What effect ...
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India's massive general election - The Big Picture | Stunning photostory of scenes during the elections #indiavotes09
Absolutely stunning photo story of the Indian elections. A set of 40 pictures of scenes played out during the course ...
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Crisis planning now incomplete without social media | @euan calls for crisis mgmt teams to be connected to the social media world
Clip: "It would be naive to give the impression that there are no issues with ...
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