With Facebook touting India as one of their largest markets in the near future, there are obvious benefits to hitching on to the Indian social media marketing bandwagon. However, it is not clear that businesses in India are ready (like many businesses elsewhere).
The Birds! Failwhale version
Before Angry Birds and Twitter there was Alfred Hitchcock’s classic ‘The Birds‘. Perhaps, newer generations will learn of these films only via passing references like…
Influence Peddling Down The Rabbit Hole
This post started out as a comment on Aaron Biebert’s post, grew some and ended up on this blog. To Aaron et al., I am…
Google Plus vs. WordPress? Whut?
Let’s face it, with the healthy lead of 750 million+ users, established by Facebook, Google Plus will take a good while to catch…
Evolution: Blog to ‘Aggro-Hub’?
Over all, the online marketing community over-emphasizes on blogs as being the HUB of customer engagement…though, I admit – with good reason (as of…
Not Built to Blog
Blogs are great for all the reasons the one and only Mark Schaefer mentions here. If only more people who should read that post,…
Does your Business have Online Charisma?
NOTE: The following is an excerpt. Please read the complete article on the BrandByte Media Inc. website. You have a website. So do your competitors.…
Social Killed the Blogger Star (and Influencer)
Terms like ‘influencers’ and ‘thought-leaders’ implies an elitist ability to ‘influence’ people into predictable patterns of thought and behavior. This makes fertile ground for ideological as well as corporate monopolies. Such methods may have been vital (even necessary) part of civilization building, in the past. But that was before technology provided us with means of real-time social communication – ubiquitous, intuitive and accessible (by large numbers).
Facebook connects you to your past. Twitter to your future.
Though both platforms have their strengths and weaknesses, the connections we form on Twitter don’t have the limitations posed by circumstantial dependencies of Facebook relationships.
Average Joe/Jane Can Make Themselves More Employable with Social Media.
Have you ever read the wonderful things about social media, in the news, and thought ‘I don’t get it’ ‘What a waste of time!’ etc.?