Monthly Archive: September 2007

Sep 25

PR and New Media: Dealing with Online “Verbalanche”

Rumours, Half Truths, Surprising Facts – Every Brand and Company in the world is surrounded by them. Most don’t know how to deal with them, and end up behaving like an Ostrich – which means you have dirt on your face, and you cannot fly. The internet makes the situation worse (and Neil French will …

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Sep 24

Hutch is now Vodafone! …but what’s Hutch??

It was a sad day for many of us in India, especially “Brand Watchers” who have lived with the brand Hutch for so many years. We experienced great service, terrific advertising, and I personally felt a huge sense of pride, thanks to this brand – both as consumer of its services, and an Indian communication …

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Sep 21

You know you’re an Iconic Brand when # 003

You know you’re an Iconic Brand when you find thousands of videos of your Brand on YouTube – and you put up only one or two yourself! On YouTube you will find user ‘using the Brand’ videos, your ads, parodies of your ads, even new ads created by someone else for you based on how …

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Sep 20

Indian Railways online..? Not really!

The day before yesterday I booked a couple of train tickets online at the Indian Railways online reservation site. Thinking all along (until I booked the tickets) that this giant slowpoke elephant (thanks or no thanks to Lalu Prasad Yadav) had finally come of age – technology age. Nope. It has not come of age. …

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Sep 19

In defense of Microsoft

In a ruling two days back, the European Court of First Instance which is one of the highest legal bodies in the European Union (EU), imposed hefty fines and asked Microsoft to comply with a couple of key directives a) it should in EU countries, unbundle the add-ons like Windows Media Player in its Windows …

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