Update – June 13, 2013: Lemp responds with a press release (courtesy NDTV) Lemp Press Release by ndtvonline – Original post – June 12, 2013 Lemp Brewpub is all over the place online, I see. A lot has been written about the blog post (now removed, but the contents can be accessed here) that caused everything… on Firstpost, Lighthouse Insights… Read more →
Last month, I had used SimilarWeb to explore the kind of traffic e-commerce websites get (besides media websites) from social media. However rudimentary the data source is (in the absence of a better alternative from so many e-commerce websites), the result was that traffic from social media, for most e-commerce websites was abysmally low. Direct traffic, referrals and search traffic… Read more →
Yesterday morning, there was a huge flurry of activity on Twitter around one article (The people vs N.Srinivasan). On Mumbai Mirror. By Pritish Nandy. Yes, it was a very different piece of opinion on N.Srinivasan that took a larger view to the whole tale than every other mainstream news outlet’s perspective. It (to me) seemed to be asking all the… Read more →
I will be moderating a panel in Exchange4Media’s event, India PR & Corporate Communications 2013 tomorrow. The overall theme of the event is ‘New media: friend or foe?‘, within the PR world scheme of things. My panel, within that theme, is, ‘Put your money where your mouth is – Do the PR Agencies have what it takes in terms of… Read more →
You may have read about Uttar Pradesh police using Twitter, last week in this blog. Here’s an even more inspiring social media usage from a Government official. Manivannan, IAS and Managing Director of Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Ltd. is on Facebook and is doing a phenomenal job. What does he do? Nothing dramatically different from say, Anand Mahindra on Twitter…. Read more →
Early last week I was grappling with a troublesome situation. My Honda City’s hypothecation to Kotak got over and I got a NOC from them that I can submit to my RTO and get new set of papers for the car. I had all the papers ready – RC book, driving license, emission certificate… but did not have the insurance… Read more →
Daikin says, ’1 million views = 1 more school’ (cooled)! bit.ly/1328RBj 1 million views for 1-3 a/cs? Jesus… #megalame! — Karthik Srinivasan (@beastoftraal) May 24, 2013 – RT @anantrangaswami: This is tiring. Now Daikin’s Cool a school ‘activism’. New post. firstpost.com/living/why-dai… — Karthik Srinivasan (@beastoftraal) May 24, 2013 – Brilliant! RT @bhatnaturally: Web film gets 3mn views. Turns out to… Read more →