NASSCOM Foundation invited me to speak on ‘Leveling Web 2.0 for social causes’ at their Connect IT forum at Bangalore today. The other panelists in my session were Sachin Malhan, CEO, Inclusive Planet (who did a great job of moderating the session) and Anu Unnikrishnan, Marketing Consultant, for Jaago Re a popular campaign by Tata […]
Tag: web 2.0
Are you justifying your existence as a communication professional?
The recession can surely make communicators sweat! It also seems to be making communicators revisit their purpose and justify their existence. A mail from a fellow communicator in India pointed to just that – it read ‘we are gauging the span of the Corporate Communication and roles vis-a-vis number of employees. It’s going to hopefully […]
If you can’t be found, you won’t be found
I had the opportunity to speak to an enthusiastic batch of students from Bangalore Management Academy on February 21, 2009 on the changing business landscape, its impact on career planning, the heightened need for personal branding and how social media can help one succeed in this quest. The topic was ‘If you can’t be found, […]
Information overload and the role of internal communicators
Organizations are waking up to the alarming increase in information overload and drop in productivity among their staff. According to RescueTime, an organization which analyses computer use behavior, a typical information worker who sits at a computer all day turns to his e-mail programme more than 50 times and uses instant messaging 77 times.The research also […]
Career potential and Web 2.0
At a New Media and Career workshop for students conducted today, I posed the following questions: Is your resume New Media ready? Do you know what makes a curriculum vitae tick in the social media space? Are you sending the right messages for recruiters trawling the web? Is your career Web 2.0 proof? Recent shifts […]
New media success tips for the management education community
The management education community (students, placement professionals and leaders) can derive immense benefits from new media/social media/Web 2.0 and its popularity. Rising interest in new media coupled with faster, cheaper access to the internet has fueled opportunities for interactivity, community and brand building. But, awareness of how new media impacts our personal and professional lives is […]