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ad:tech New Delhi announces Master Class – assess and increase your organisation’s digital fitness

New Delhi, 21 January 2013: As excitement builds for the third India edition of the world’s #1 digital marketing event, ad:tech New Delhi 2013, the event promises to offer oodles of networking opportunities coupled with fresh insights and new learning for experienced and novice digital professionals alike. Being organized by NetworkPlay in partnership with dmg::events, the event will feature one entire day of hardcore, on-hands learning sessions during the pre-conference master class on February 20.

Says Rammohan Sundaram, event chairman for ad:tech New Delhi 2013, “Brand leadership has never been more vulnerable – digital empowers start-ups to grow and become overnight stars and to compete with global biggies at a blink. The challenge today is to find the right consumer and make the right offer at the right time through the right channel, and you are a winner if you can do that effectively, no matter whether you are big or small. With digital being the centerpiece of the entire ecosystem, rapid innovation means you need to keep learning and discovering constantly to stay relevant. We introduced Master Classes for the first time last year and received an overwhelming response and very good feedback from participants. I still vividly remember how the full day was oversubscribed and we had to put extra seats to manage the overflow. We’re happy to be partnering again with iProspect Communicate2 to bring yet another dedicated learning session where you can expect not just to skim the surface but simplify fancy jargons and seek answers to the most intriguing how’s, when’s and why’s in digital. An organization’s growth is defined today by its digital fitness, and the Master Class is like the dose of DHA in your dietary supplement.”

Vivek Bhargava, Managing Director, iProspect Communicate2, the knowledge partner for the Master Class, says, “Digital is no longer limited to the confines of the marketing function, but has today become an all-pervasive catalyst and multiplier to achieve organizational goals. Increasingly, search engines are emerging as the database of intent and social media as database of action. Organic search is fast evolving where the world is moving from just optimizing websites to optimizing their entire web presence. Content creation is now seen as a means to reduce cost of paid media and drive superior engagements. Whatever you knew till last year may not be as relevant today – and in our busy schedules, it becomes imperative to spare sometime to keep oneself abreast to cope with the volatile dynamics of a digital life. In this action-packed day, delegates will learn to use digital strategies not only to understand consumer behavior but also predict trends and leverage social media listening for better customer service.”

The Master class will focus on seven key sections, each dealing with a particular aspect of achieving a specific business objective. The workshop will include modules on key topics such as Customer Acquisition, Brand Building, Information Dissemination, Cross Selling and Upselling through Community Creation, ORM and Customer Service through Social Media Listening together with using Search and Social Analytics to understand and predict consumer behavior.

The registration fee for Search and Social Master Class at ad:tech New Delhi 2013 is INR 8,999 per person, while a group booking for three people is for INR 23,997. However, as an advance booking offer, delegates can register for the Master Class for just INR 6,999 per person and INR 17,997 per group of three till January 31. Details of this and other packages are available on the registration page for ad:tech New Delhi 2013.

For the first time, ad:tech New Delhi 2013 will feature an all-women keynote. The last 2 editions had over 3000 professionals from the digital media, marketing and technology domains come together to network, share and learn. ad:tech New Delhi 2013 promises to be bigger and bolder than ever, and will feature a conference, exhibition, innovation zone, workshops, and special networking events.

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TATA Indica Vista D90 – the all new sedan class from TATA!

So that’s was a pleasant surprise when I heard from Blogadda that I am getting to test the all new Tata Indica Vista D90 the one which is yet to be launched.

The car arrived at my office on that day, was feeling elated, it’s a new car and few people have access to it. The ever smiling Tushar Shah from Tata Motors was my connect for the car.

Very sporty look with a dual tone alloy wheels, and a standard TATA front grill, chrome plated fog lamps (front & rear) and a pretty wide eyes – triple barrel headlamps almost going to the door greeted me at the first look! The car comes with ABS, the airbags as standard, in the car I drove which is spice red it had a contrast roof a black one!

You open the car doors to a wide interiors looking menacingly with the beige interiors adding to the space. You could seat comfortably smug in the bucket seat and with steering tilt adjust it to your convenience.

A look at the steering wheel and you get the smart controls at your finger tips. The music, the phone which can be connected via Blue tooth and much more! A peek into the clean dash board gives you the nice interface on the speedometer and the rpm you rev.

The centrally located dashboard  has the 2din music system which has connectivity on USB and also the Blue tooth! You could pair upto 5 devices and the moment you are in the car it will automagically connect you to the device, well you could prioritise the device list.

So you know you got to only think about driving your passionate vehicle and only enjoy the drive. You can pick up the call right from the steering wheel, don’t have to take your hands off anytime.

Just above the console that houses the time machine blinking on the you, is all new Driver Information System. Mindblowing insight into consumer insight is my way of looking at that. It gives you the distance left to the Fuel station, the average mileage that you are clocking at any instant and also the temperature and the time all at alternate clicks of the button.

The leg room is ample for the fornt seat as well as the back seats and the back seat can comfortably seat three people. Behind the seat is a socket for you to charge your electronic devices. Just in case the battery charger is in use near the driver’s console.

The back seat also folds itself to give you more space in case you want at times.

Now you start the car and it responds with a low sound, and you would want to confirm yourself with pushing the accelerator, then you know it’s a diesel engine. Once you get into the driving mode the engine responds so very agile and gets to push faster of course if you have a clear road ahead.

The engine throwing up 90 bhp and with VGT as the state of the heart, responds quickly even at low rpms for you to navigate the city traffic and the traffic signals with ease.

Driving in traffic, it squeezes through cutting corners with the very responsive power steering and the turning radius is awesome to say the least.

The engine responds with a 0-100 kmph in over 15 seconds flat and can touch a top speed of over 150 kmph.

Sometimes intelligence is also at the back of the car like here in D90, where in case its raining your rear wiper will go into action automatically when you are reversing the car.  Yeah I had forgot to mention the rear demister too!  May be two days later I would have got the wind of the same in Delhi when it rained.

A very nice package from TATA and looking forward to it being a runaway success. A very powerful car in its class and with the host of new features it would be a great steal! I am sure you are gonna enjoy the long drive!

Some pictures! 

 

This is a part of Blogadda Sponsored Review Program! (http://blog.blogadda.com/2012/12/27/30-bloggers-review-vista-d90-diesel)

Senthilkumar Rajappan

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Social Media Power And Pitfalls #cuj100

As a part of the Columbia University School of Journalism celebrating its centennial, they had a panel discussion on Social Media Power and Pitfalls at Taj Mansingh, New Delhi.

The event had Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Founder & CEO, Infoedge (Naukri.com) introducing the panelist,Sree Sreenivasan, Chief Digital Officer, the social media guru for us and Barkha Dutt, Managing editor, NDTV, also a Columbia School of Journalism Alumni.

Before the actual panel discussion started with Barkha Dutt and Sree Sreenivasan asking her questions and discussing how the social media is influencing the main stream media, we were privileged to listen to his take on how social media would change things for the future.

I would also like to share a few of the things he put up on his slides.

 

So  looking at the picture, I remember a similar one with 1 million as the standard, and to think that it has been taken to 50 Million is a pointer to the way things are fast paced and also what holds in future.

He also took us on the way how the print/news industry in US is now looking for drastic solutions unlike their Indian counterparts. The classic final cover of Newsweek was a revelation with a hashtag #LastPrintIssue.

We also got to know that Associated Press has started to print news along the bills and invoice receipts, so the next time you make a purchase you could also get your bills with the latest developments. This is one of the trial that the media is trying out.

The best of his interaction was when he put up this slide:

I believe this is pretty true even on a macro level. If we were to think that people are sitting in front of their seats and waiting for an update from you and me, forget that or from a brand, then yes we have a problem.

The sheer size of the data that it generates is the real issue, times have changed and so have the number of users across media platforms, with so much of updates, tweets and videos, the challenge lies in being heard and being noticed and it’s just that we will almost be missed especially on Social Media.

He also touched upon the changing media habits and how we should be making ourselves more knowledgeable with whats happening which he suggested as changing media diet.

 

According to him the year 2013 would be the year of Social, Mobile, Video and Geo location/Local.

Now onto the panel discussion with Barkha Dutt and Sree Sreenivasan, it was also a peek into the minds of the media and also the reader.

Barkha Dutt was candid in admitting that social media has made it to prominence and on a personal note she was happy about being able to talk to people. That twitter has made it easy to access the people has brought about a great change in the attitude of some celebrities.

She gave a ring side view of how she takes the divergent and sometimes over the top opponents – described as ‘trolls’ and their comments. On the other side, she felt that she should be able to take the discussion offline and also extend to know the person offline.

The general perception is that the television or the print media is not that threatened as much as in the west may be for the next 5 -10 years. But yes Barkha made a clear point when she said she was doubtful if Indian viewers will ever pay for content as they have been always getting them for free!

To me it was a learning experience especially with the two mega minds in business. Sree Sreenivasan, then put together 13 ways to stay relevant in the social media, pardon any media for that matter reproduced below! That pretty much sums up the whole!

So cheers to you/ your brands success this year….

Here is the link of the presentation and also the storified version from Sree.

Senthilkumar Rajappan

PS: this post was written for Lighthouseinsights.in and was published here: http://lighthouseinsights.in/social-media-power-and-pitfalls-cuj100-guest-post.html

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The Bankster by Ravi Subramanian – a book review

This is the first time I am reading Ravi Subramanian, thanks to BlogaddaThe Bankster by  Ravi Subramanian.

The Bankster unravels the intricate banking system and how a few cunning people can beat it smart.  The characters in the story are pretty much like you and me. You will relate to them if you had visited a bank so much for the identifying part of this.

The web of complexities and an unsusual turn of events at a multinational bank makes for an interesting reading. Very fast paced and close to life, next door characters, this is the story of human weakness, that of manipulating relationships even when literally being the relationship manager at the branch of a bank.

So when there is a series of murders or accidents as the world would like to be believed,  especially of one of his close friend, Karan the ex-employee turned reporter smells foul play and has a task at hand to identify and save the rest including himself when he sees a pattern emerging with people related to a particular account at GB2.

On the other side of the story which runs parallel is the agitation against the commissioning of the new nuclear plant and how an agitation to ensure safety standards is hijacked to personal agendas and also goes on to become a network of unlawful activities which finds a thread at the one of the accounts of GB2.

The story shows the author with his background, as an expert in banking and has a grip on human emotions and weakness and a behavioural pattern at its best and worst in a narrative style that’s keeps you wanting to finish this off in one quick read.

The analytical and logical treatment that he offers with Karan and the team that investigates privately is an awesome read. We should give it to the characterisation of Karan, who very deftly handles and delves into the minds of the executioners.

And not to forget is the episode at Vienna and how the police department leaves no stones unturned to get the perpetrators of crime to book. You have a CCD out there in the middle of all this. 🙂

The best part is the way the author has the story in control all the three events at different places of the globe and weaving a nice suspense filled thriller. He also has to his credit  making the reader look aside and may be think of who the bankster could be or may be it was my thought.

Overall an excellent fast read, and a nice plot and I would have to agree when Wall Street Journal says – Meet the John Grisham of Banking. I am a fan of John Grisham and all the legal stories, especially my favorite being Street Lawyer.

And yeah check out the author out here:  Web | Facebook | Twitter | Youtube

R Senthilkumar

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The Krishna Key – a Book Review

Let me start with a disclaimer, I am a big fan of Ashwin and know him close thanks to the social media. So it was with bated breath that I was awaiting the release of his latest thriller in his genre of mythological thriller. If anyone can give Dan Brown a challenge it would be Ashwin Sanghi and he has proved it time and again.

Now to the novel at hand – the Krishna Key. I told myself I will try to do an open reading and not have any premonition about Krishna (He is close to me). I had also read the first preview.

The book sets the pace and what a start it was a gory one and an executioner on prowl, planning with precision and setting the agenda for the police and the other stake holders to think hard.

The pace of the novel was class apart, you could not wait to see what happened next and what’s in store till the last page is read.

The change of pace and the characters especially that of Prof Saini and his student Priya were well etched out and quite educative. The best part is that springing surprises that happens during the story offering quite a twist. Radhika’s character is one of empowerment in itself.

The storyline especially that of Sri Krishna in first person makes it topical and how it came about for modern day characters to connect the dots. Realism in fiction sometimes  is an art but Ashwin makes it a science with his deep insights and wide reading of the topic that he presents in such a riveting and fast paced story which makes for an engrossing read.

I think anagrams apart Ashwin this time has set a new precedent with a mirror imaging of Sir Khan to Krishna, something which still rings in with the reader.

An absolutely great story told in a pretty lucid narrative and style that you would wonder why it went off so fast. You will continue to retain some of the finer characteristics of the story even after you have put your book down.

For me personally, the author has a way of presenting things in new light that I am reminded of George Bernard Shaw who said ‘You see things and say why, I see things and say why not?’

Senthilkumar Rajappan

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Michael Schumacher on Pole!

Well that was the headline that was not to be! Micheal Schumacher the seven time World Champion and the Mercedes Team driver went on to finish on top of the Qualifying Session, except that a 5 place grid penalty was hanging right from the last grand prix and would start 6th tomorrow!

It has been quite a while since the fans and the teams have looked to Schumacher to regain his stronghold, and the time has come today when he went on take the pole. Monaco is one of the trickiest circuit in the calendar and just when people were discussing how other teams were doing the best, Mercedes seems to have got it right this time with two of it drivers in a clash of making it to the top three.

Tomorrow it going to be a great day with the order looking very solid and Webber who is now on pole would not want to miss out on such an opportunity especially at Monaco.

Now will wait and watch how it will unfolds tomorrow and with no margin for error the driver who steers a nice drive can be sure of a lights to flag, and yes will it rain????

R Senthilkumar

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The Devotion of Suspect X – review on Wordle…


Wordle: My review of The Devotion of Suspect X

R Senthilkumar

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The Devotion of Suspect X – a Book review….

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Book Cover: The Devotion of Suspect X

First things first, the Japanese names sounded similar and took me few minutes to get them right to the story. Once I was familiar with the characters then sailed pretty fast.

The author Keigo Higashino makes an excellent portrayal of human sensibilities and frailities without much of the fanfare that we get to see in these kind of books. You already know you are reading a movie script when the story is fastpaced, has a lot of twist and turns and the protogonist is painstakingly methodical. Add to it he is a mathematician will only make it more intense, he has a way he lives on or is immensely calculative for his own worth.

A tragedy by pure circumstances forces the mother Hanoka and daughter Misato to take Ishigami’s ( the mathematician) help after a simple tiff between the now divorced husband and wife turns nasty with the man attacking the daughter, the brawl gets physical and takes a nasty turn with the man’s death and then the story unfolds.

Our mathematician and the hero who has a logical and intuitive mind extends his help to cover up the event and most importantly create alibi as much as possible so that the mother and the child are always out of the police radar. A classic case here of making the police think of what they see and what they might not really want! A very rare turn of events which is statistically close to zero makes it a story to read. Possibly the mathematician Ishigami would not have thought that the detective in question could have been an alumni of his university or that the detective was good friends with his former college mate.

Now the police could have their way and Ishigami almost calculates as much to get close to their thinking and makes the plot fittingly look believable and trace it to the dead end as he might want to and he almost comes close to leading the police to his end. But there are things which go wrong, probably he takes things for granted or putting it mildly some variables he is not able to control.

The arrival of his erstwhile college friend Yukawa and the friendship of the detective and the professor of physics takes us through the minds and machinations if I may call it. Just as he keeps rolling out plans perfectly there comes a time when his friend comes across to read his mind. Its no more mathematics alone that makes him do it, under the motivation lies the most innocent and important life saving factor of the smiles of  two women known only to his heart.

The author also plays the poverty card very well in a sense how the poor are just statistics and how even a professor could use them to his advantage so much so that they will never be cared in a society so much full of contradictions inside out. Could that be author is trying to show the mirror to the world outside in this case how the life lost doesn’t count at all because its nowhere in the picture till someone decides to look into suspect’s mind.

Loved the characterisation like I mentioned the few characters symbolises the society in action and how people are generally simple and with inborn traits.

I am going with the author on all the way he wanted to be saving the two un-intentional killers but the way it ended put me off to be frank. That little girl Misato deserved much better than the burden of having to live with something that happened because she was a girl.

Somewhere it looked like the women are same all over, giving in to the reckless behaviour of the men that they care and love with all their heart and only to be betrayed and then there is the way destiny is supposed to behave irresponsibly, just when she thinks all are fine with her, comes the biggest shock for her life.

Yes, alongside it reminded me of my classes in physics and yes like the professor says physicists have a way with life and its not easy getting over them. It is always good to have physicists around, except when you have actually murder someone to create an alibi for already killed person. In this case it wasnt reasoning because love is beyond that and when you are in love you will do whatever it takes to prove yourself.

A good fast paced read and you cant live without maths and physics, though you might detest the fact that you are not going to use them but even a car race driver ( being Indian F1 fan I needed to add this) would need to know how to extract maximum from his car, well Ishigami did give this answer in one of his classes.

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R Senthilkumar

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Another book for review! thanx BlogAdda!

The book arrived well packed and neatly done… 🙂 Been waiting for this since I received the mail notification of BlogAdda informing me being among the 100 readers to review the book!

Well well well the book is looking awesome, and well judging by the cover it looks interesting to start off, am just waiting for a lean period of my thoughts to be gathered and set off on a journey to read and ofcourse share with you all on a review!

The book I am talking about is already a best seller having sold 2 million copies worldwide! The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino.

R Senthilkumar