Comments on: Roundup: India Social Media Summit 2009

By: ForexFires

ForexFires — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:01:05 +0000

Keep it coming, great information

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Fri, 22 May 2009 11:33:53 +0000

[...] read an interesting summary

By: mayankdhingra

mayankdhingra — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:52:26 +0000

Great Round up Sampad. Thanks for sharing.

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[...] business community want to better understand the power of online networking, this week saw the “India Social Media Summit 2009” held in Mumbai; widely believed to be the first of its [...]

By: Sampad Swain

Sampad Swain — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:35:04 +0000

Yes, true! They seemed to be confused between online advertising, social network monetization and Social Media and we as active social media users were totally left stranded

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Roundup: India Social Media Summit 2009 | Forex Trading Currencies — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:22:43 +0000

[...] Yesterday I attended a conference which I believe is India’s first social media summit which gathered practitioners, enthusiasts, evangelists, elites from both client and agency side. But before getting down with the post, I would like to draw attention to one of my past posts wherein I broadly covered IAMAI Digital Marketing Conference held in Bangalore last year and draw parallel to some extent that how and have things changed since then? Though I put my two cents on the same but would ope Here is the original: Roundup: India Social Media Summit 2009 [...]

By: A Bisht

A Bisht — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:18:32 +0000

Well said , I agree.

By: Anaggh_Desai

Anaggh_Desai — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:44:18 +0000

A good roundup as usual my young friend. Agree with some & would ruminate over the others….however your Take on Session II brought a smile to my face…..Eggzactly what I have been cribbing about:)

By: Mike Harmon

Mike Harmon — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:01:33 +0000

Well said

By: Sampad Swain

Sampad Swain — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:58:07 +0000

Agreed. Sometimes I believe that Social Media is a over-hyped US agency water cooler effect spread virally to India and we are sneezing. Jokes apart, what you mentioned is exactly true in Indian scenario and I think at the agency level, more responsibility should be taken on at least two aspects:

1. Hand holding of the client and making them aware of what is social media – if that requires teaching them, then they should cover that extra mile.
2. Giving legitimate promises to clients which can be fulfiled (no false hopes) since this is will decide the scope of future business with any potential clients.

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Sampad