This is a repost from Microreviews. Success keeps us motivated. We are elated to have received a huge response to our first two posts in this series( Facebook Presence and Twitter Presence of Indian telecom majors) . So we move on in our journey to check the website/blog presence of Indian telecom majors. Websites and Blogs, as you would all agree, are an extremely important as a part of a company’s social media portfoilo. So, Here we go. Airtel India : Airtel Website: It is an old thing, but it is true. http://www.airtel.com redirects to ...

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This is a re-post from Microreviews. The huge success of the first post in the series ‘Social Media Presence of Indian Telecom Majors-Facebook presence’ has excited us infinitely. So, as promised we are coming out with the second post in the series. Twitter as explained in Plain English was meant to just tell “What are you doing?”. But the marketeres saw the Gold in it. It got used a publishing service and took the marketing world by a storm. So, Today the microreviews team set out to find how the Indian Telecom Majors ...

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This post is being re-blogged from Microreviews. The Indian Telecommunication Industry is considered one of the most competitive as well as most marketed industries in the world. Cheap rates and brilliant advertisement campaigns have become synonymous to Airtel, Vodafone and Tata Docomo. So, with all this in mind Microreviews set out to check the social media (the in thing as they say) presence of the major telecom players in India. Microreviews starts this journey with Facebook. Bharti Airtel : There are apparently three or four facebook pages which Airtel has. One of these has around 10000 fans which is a big number ...

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This post is in continuation with the last one where we were announcing a series of changes at Windchimes. Since our inception in October last year, the social media landscape has undergone a wide change. We decided to capture our learning from the work we have carried out for our clients and new trends in this field on our website. Also to carry on with our tradition of providing value to readers, we have compiled a social media handbook which is Free to download. A simple 3 step registration and you could have your very own copy of it! The handbook ...

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The time to write this post came sooner than I had planned. Like most new ventures, Sandhya and I too started Windchimes (in October ‘08) with business plans for the first six months and then for next 3 years. Six months because, in India, our financial year starts in April. We were not completely sure of the assumptions that we had made for making those and had to play it by the ear. And well, it turned out to be better and soon we were out looking for a big place to set up and grow our business. That by the ...

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I love YouTube. I think it is a brilliant concept and has given an avenue for self expression like no other. A random search on YouTube will reveal videos ranging from the truly useful to the sincerely bizarre. Some of my all time fave videos on YouTube include Where is Matt, everything from Common Craft and Bridal Skincare (what can I say… I am partial!). Infact Where is Matt with hits to the tune of 20,057,638, has got so big that Visa used it for their traditional TV campaign! Three cheers to the power of online video… In India too one ...

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Windchimes blog recently earned official badge of achievement as ‘Successful and Outstanding Blogger’. Liz Strauss describes in detail the idea behind running the successful and outstanding blogger program in detail and how you can earn it too. She states on her blog that this badge is awarded to bloggers who “take the conversations to their readers, contribute great ideas, challenge us, make us better, and make our businesses stronger”. Successful and Outstanding Blogger Badge You can view the directory of all the blogs that have been awarded the badge. ...

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