Wanted: Fresher stuck in Social Media

Hey folks,

I just happened to meet a person (whom I respect a lot) from the world of media. We’ve been in good touch for quite sometime and have had a lot of common interests.

Today’s meeting, however, had a lot to do with transforming one such interest into a business. Let’s call him X, for the moment.

X is already into the world of media and is doing pretty good, at that. It’s fairly obvious that the World is now moving from offline to online gradually. When I first met X, about 2-3 months back, he told me he was keen on getting into the online space. Today, I see that the vision has taken a more refined and clear form. X’s firm wants to establish an online arm to handle Web 2.0 needs of its clientele.

Given that we’ve been trying to work with each other for sometime now, he spoke to me about it today. In accordance with what we both discussed about, I am now trying to help him find a fresher to fill a particular position at his company.

Specs:

1. Must be a thorough Social Media maniac. Should know what Social Media tool to use to bring what kind of buzz.
2. Must have good communication skill. This has become a pre-requisite of almost any job today!
3. Must be capable of building and nurturing relationships with clients and change agents.
4. Must be fun loving, capable of working in a small but high-energy team with a lot of youngsters.
5. The pay would be on par with what any PR firm pays a fresher. ’nuff said!

If you think you’d be interested, do drop me an email at prashanth[dot]krishnaswami[at]gmail[dot]com.

That’s it for now.

Yours Skeptically,

P.S. No, I don’t get a cut for referring someone perfect for the job. Rather, I’ll get cut if I don’t refer someone soon!

Another day, another life

Hey folks,

I had just gone down to Chittur (in Andhra Pradesh) as a result of family protocol to attend a relative’s house-warming ceremony.

Now, let’s not delve into why it’s called a house-warming ceremony. It was certainly not warm, it was freakin’ hot! What with all the smoke and fumes, in an otherwise scorching hot day!

There were quite a few thoughts that were sparked off on my mind as a result of experiences on these 2 days. Let me now write about the first of the thoughts.

These one-and-a-half days have made me realise what kind of a pathetic handicap I have. It was so difficult passing time without a computer and internet access that I was more eddicted to checking email than what Obama was said to be! Thanks to GPRS, I had access to my mailbox, atleast.

I’m not irritated at having spent a day there as such. It has helped me realise an addiction, so strong and so captivating, that I never knew I had.

This trip (by car from Chennai to Chittur and back) has also made me realise that I’m not as insensitive to the long-car-journey-fatigue as I has estimated myself to be. I slept like a log on Sunday afternoon after reaching the place!

In all, a good learning experience. Will post later. This week looks like mad work!

Yours Skeptically,

P.S. My mid-trimester exams have ended and I have done better than I expected in 6 of the 7 subjects. Economics, however, looks very sad!

PageRank update!

There has been a Google PageRank update and this blog jumped to PR 4. Great news for me and those on this blog’s blogroll. The contribution of this blog towards your blog’s PageRank has increased. Happy times!

Yours Skeptically,

uleadin

P.S. Teal’s and Tdsmapper’s blogs haven’t changed w.r.t PR. Everyone else I checked has a PR change (except Sundar and Praveen).

Orkut India!

After a very long time (~2 weeks), I signed onto Orkut today because someone had scrapped me. I didn’t need to login because almost all the time my Google cookie is active. I replied to the scrap and took a glance of my Home page when I noticed that Orkut had moved to orkut.co.in from orkut.com for India. I dunno anything about how this is gonna affect the Indian Economy. For such expert comments, we’re awaiting word from PSP.

Yours Skeptically,

uleadin

P.S. PSP is said to be busy in training but still I got some multi-coloured forwards from him today! Thirundhave maattaan!

Opera spoils the show!

Never ever use Opera to sign into wordpress and write a post! Opera screws up the post aligning big time! I had a personal taste of it today, some 20 mins ago. The previous post was first aligned as if word-wrap was turned off!

I logged onto wordpress from Firefox and pretended to edit the post and saved it. Then everything became fine.

Yours Skeptically,

uleadin

P.S. I’m told that Opera is a perfect browser. It passes ACID test 2 and all! I couldn’t help laughing out loud!

There it goes!

I was quite happy that my computer was running pretty fine for a long time. There was literally no noticeable problem! No crashes, no viruses, no partitions missing, nothing! One fine morning, I wake up early and download all that I can till the 8 AM IST free-download-time set by BSNL.

I go to sleep at 8 only to be woken up by my dad 30 minutes later. He tells me that the computer isn’t ‘working’. To him, ‘not-working’ means only one thing. To me, it always means a dozen things. Even a small tilt of the power plug can mean ‘not-working’ for him. I was hoping that it was one of those petty problems so that I can pretend that there’s something gravely wrong with the computer and claim to have ‘repaired’ it.

[Well, that's how I impress the people most of the time]

This time, however, it wasn’t that simple! Windows refused to boot! I had downloaded movies and everything some 30 mins back and it seemed fine.

30 mins later, pop! there it goes! Now, I need to find a Windows XP CD and try to reinstall it.

Yours Skeptically,

uleadin

P.S. Luckily I have Linux! Special thanks to this guy for that!