The alphabet of creative tweets
Winning an FC Bayern München Team Tee-shirt and the team cap isn’t something that one writes about… but if the tee is signed by the world-class footballers in the team, it becomes a different matter altogether! This happened on the 25th of May 2013… and it was a contest on twitter. You might ask: ‘Why was Bayern...
Twitter, Poetry, and Audi
Poetry on twitter? Is poetry really possible in just 140 characters? Can you possibly write reasonably logical couplets if you need to make space for some hash-tag and probably for a longish twitter handle as well? A few days back I got this opportunity. Atwitter contest was organised by Audi (Twitter handle: @AudiIN ) and...
Instant Fashion Fix
Twitter does let your thoughts walk on in directions that are not just strange but totally bizarre. Take this afternoon… I just happened to stumble upon a twitter contest sponsored by L’Oréal Paris India @LOrealParisIn and one had to tweet with the hashtag #InstantfashionFix. I just jumped into the fray to see if I could...
Lifting the veil off MBA
A single tweet made me make up my mind about this article. The tweet from Rahiel ?@RahielT said: ‘I have so much more to learn about growing and sustaining a business but experience is often the best teacher. Life has been my Harvard MBA.’ I then searched a bit more and came up with a...
Rules, formulas, and writing well
Everyone dreams of writing well. No wonder then that we see so many books that call you through book store show windows, so many websites that beckon you demurely and sometimes in a crass and gross manner… there are e-mailers wanting you just click and become a writer and then even SMSes aren’t so far...
The intrigue behind online contests
Online contests are a great idea that is promoting creativity and proactive participation. They are also giving sponsors a great platform for roping in the masses for some significant brain-storming and product promotion at a cost that is negligible when compared to the costs needed for even a modest print campaign. But this post isn’t...
Who’s afraid of social media?
The other day when I met a friend from my school, all we discussed was how well we were connected and how fast we were able to reach out to our friends when needed. And I am talking of the seventies here. Surprised? Well, you should be, considering the way technology has redefined communication. With...
I’m bikers not a gengster!
I scoured the net to try and see if my search could give me a precise definition of a biker. I found not one but many tweets that hand-held me and lead me right to the centre of a biker’s mind and life. In fact, it is the text of one of these tweets that...
Weaving a Revolution through Blogs, Micro-blogs, & Gandhi
Do you really know what happened in Egypt? Was there a revolution or just a premature revelation of a stressed-out response? Was it the impending fear of a massive blood-bath that made Hosni Mubarak give up? Were blogging and micro-blogging the real heroes? Did Gandhian principles once again rise and conquer? Or is it...
Ravana on Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin
Metaphorically, there are already a large number of Ravanas on all the social networking sites today. However, I was wondering what will happen if The Ravana of the Dushera fame (for the younger generation who understand only through such puerile linkages) decided to open himself up to the hoi-polloi of the world through Facebook, Twitter,...
