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If Social Media’s a party, what’re you going to wear?

— Posted by Gagan
Thursday, March 26th, 2009

As brands grapple with the concept of social media, some view it as just another channel to advertise. But that’s one very thin slice of the possibility pie. Yes, you can create brand awareness, but how do you actually get your customer to care about you, and make you their preferred choice?

User-Generated Content & the J.Lo Syndrome

— Posted by Gagan
Sunday, March 4th, 2007

Scenario: I buy a cheap digital camera on eBay. I go out a take a picture of my dog and come back, transfer that pic to my iPhoto library, add a few cheesy effects and upload it to Flickr. I am now a happy prosumer, consuming, producing content as fast as technology [...]

You call it Web 2.0

— Posted by Gagan
Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

We have survived that first version of the web. We skipped many a flash intro, used many a sitemap to find our way around marketing hoopla. We even managed to give up old buggy browsers, adopted usability…