Posts under ‘Ideas’

Free Tips on how to use Social Media to sell your products!

Seriously. Everyone seems to be talking about it. Suddenly. Maybe it’s just the world around me. Maybe it’s just the world in me. But it seems that everyone has recently discovered Digital Marketing as a strategic area for focus. And yes, I’m using the word ‘everyone’ in the corporate sense here.
What’s so new about it [...]

Imagine you’re a 30 something who has some money to dabble with and are NOT an i-banker (or the likes). Actually take out the 30 something bit; you could be whatever age but meet the following criteria:

Have some money AND want to invest in stocks
Internet Savvy

If you meet the above criteria, how do you pick [...]

I won’t talk about the recent shameful and dreadful terror attack on Mumbai per se – but on what to do next. My thoughts on how to fight this menace; not that I’m an expert… but just my two cents I guess.
We can’t hope for situations like this to get addressed by mere rhetoric or [...]

The trigger for this post is an interesting article from Atul Rai here. Atul articulates that from a ‘tacit knowledge sharing’ perspective (call it Web 2.0 or social networking if you have to) communication is probably not that relevant. He cites the SMS and twitter phenomenon has changed the way we communicate as people. Fair [...]

Champagne. Bouquets. Several courses of meal without the hassle of deciding what to order (that’s a big incentive to me!). Birthday cake. A linen jacket that I wanted for several months, or maybe years! All this without the slightest hint. Yes, that’s what Sakshi did on my birthday on Jun 9.
She insisted on picking me [...]

I keep thinking of these little ideas every now and then. Thought it will be a good idea to share them on my blog and also archive them to track how much I imagine! So here goes the first in the Imagination series!
Imagine. A mobile phone application that allows the user to click a text [...]

Oh yeah I am and I feel like kicking myself. For months now I’ve been thinking of an idea to link up the stock market with social networking. I mean using the “wisdom of crowds” to decide which stock to pick. After all don’t we follow tips given by analysts and friends!
Good idea, yeah… but the [...]

Some personal experiments – e.g., creating a ‘retro’ video for Divya’s engagement gave me a potent way of engaging people in ‘formal’ settings.
Talking about work settings, you can capture an event as “Minutes of Meetings” but that to my mind is not very effective anymore because that does not excite people enough; doesn’t give them [...]

In a recent seminar I attended, I discovered the concept of Unconferencing (lookup Kiruba Shanker on Google). This post is not meant for talking about unconferencing even though I’m very excited about this concept. It’s about something else…
I met an HP colleague at the seminar. Both of us knew that we existed but had never [...]