Economy of Social - Social Media Tips, Marketing and Business

Our world is filled with advertisements and promotions. I am part of the community that does this sort of work. Apart from destroying the natural surroundings through ugly billboards, neon lights, glossy posters and other works of the money making mind, marketers are involved in another sinister act – Propagating Consumerism. By the time a child grows up, she has already seen thousands of hours of TV, scrolled through countless newspapers and magazines, and travelled through miles of roads with banners. All of these orchestrate the origin of materialistic aspirations. These aspirations are thieves of our lives. They make us work in order to fulfill them. We in-turn weaken social ties and spend time working to fulfill these desires. Through our chase of material goods we create a demand for energy mostly fuelled by fossil fuels. You drive a big car, which consumes more fuel, you have more air-conditioners at home, which mean more electricity consumption, and you stop re-using due to su...

The debate about SOPA & PIPA has oscillated between a pro-piracy/anti-piracy debate and a pro-censorship/anti-censorship debate, with the media companies choosing the former battle ground and the tech companies opting for the latter. Although it is not merely a propaganda war there is much at stake including the impact of emerging online activism in countries where internet is beginning to spread. The present Indian government has been in the habit of censoring public voice especially since the voice of public did not go down too well with it's governance mechanisms that included high a degree of corruption. These are a few thoughts I had about SOPA & PIPA with respect to emerging economies. 1. Correlation with Speech Censorship tools SOPA,PIPA use the same tools for censorship used by countries like China, known for violating human rights to suppress speech 2. Impact on Internet Transparency in Emerging Economies India, which seems to be a successful democracy rank...

Top 500 Chinese companies reported profits of 2.08 trillion yuan. Most of these are State-Owned . This post looks at how these big 5 Chinese enterprises that make the Great Economic Dragon create a barrier that ends up isolating them.

Nokia has been subject to huge battering in the last one year. The Finnish company has had a much needed change in leadership with  Stephen Elop taking on the role of president and CEO. Nokia has lost market share , suffered from declining profit margins and scrapped its smartphone operating system for future models, creating significant uncertainty for the firm’s future. There have been five major problems for Nokia.