Change is vision or your vision should change !!!

What lies in future none of us know.What will change or how it will change............... but when you look back and think how much had changed and how you are different from before--It's amazing!!

Before +Bill Gates no one in "The silicon Valley" really thought about software, he was the first to really make us understand the meaning of a software company.

And the +Steve Jobs showed computers can be personal and it can be used in a way you like it, rather than being used only by people of Technical company.

And the core to every great innovation lies how you can just envision it..may be crazy it may sound today , but tomorrow it can  be possible.

I know I sound completely old , philosophical and boring but I feel nostalgic that how much technology had advanced in the last decade and more and more all the exclusive technology for multi billion companies and Government experiment becomes available to common people more it will impact and shape our life styles.

For example , Mobile networks had made real time connection or we can say communication real time.And internet with Social Media had taken that real time communication to another level.And +Augmented Reality  technology was used for advanced fighter jets and now with +Google Glass  it can eventually become public. More innovations and making it more available to common mass have become objective of tech giants.

And for that one can refer to the following +YouTube videos :

Future of search and Google's vision

Future is exciting only we need correct vision and judgement to know what correct for us and use it.

Taking Marketing to DNA level !!!

We all had heard about  +BigData Planet  and the importance of big data in businesses and how vastly it cam impact our socio-economic system.

But today I came across a really cool idea of "Marketing to the Big Data inside us"

(Check out this source: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514396/marketing-to-the-big-data-inside-us/)

I mean I really feel that it is cool to take marketing in such a micro level to our very own Deoxyribonucleic acid --our  DNA to be precise.

+Paul Saarinen  and Scoot Fahrenkrug are the founding members of  Miinome Inc, a Minneapolis based start-up.It claims to be the first "member controlled human genetic marketplace"

The concept they want to sell is very similar how marketers use Twitter and Facebook to get personal data and use it for product placement for consumers.so Miinome Inc. will provide the DNA based data so marketers have better understanding og consumers purchasing preferences.

This DNA data based marketing concept is taking it to the next level.

If it can be implemented successfully and Miinome Inc. manage to find takers who can implement it ...I for sure will keep an eye from now on regarding its development.

Certainly an interesting space to watch out for!!

Awesomeness of Digital Media !!!

As a part of my daily habit I was checking out digital media news and came across some cool articles , one of it says how +Google is trying to come up with uProxy Peer to Peer Internet Gateway which can solve the problem for people who cannot access it due political and legislative issues.

I mean if this project of Google is successfully launched it will be like personalized VPN-Virtualized  Private Network.But the important thing to notice will be how Google can monitor the security and chances of misuse of this setup.

And while going through some cool social media info graphics I came across two videos about the recent developments of social media and both of them gives the same message just take a look at it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slb5x5fixk4

This one gives its message with help of Cool Video Info graphics.

                                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhdC6rKUioE

Different facets of Social Media !!

In each of our lives we have different roles to play.

Our family roles and responsibilities. Professional achievements and identity , social persona , so on and so forth.

and if we believe our life is an extension of our persona then Social Media today in digital world had certainly able to achieve it.even though there i s a possibility that our Social Media profile  not necessarily reflect our true selves but it certainly let us portray ourselves as the way we want to be perceived.

And the funny thing is that whatever we do we cannot totally control what the other person will eventually think of us.

+Facebook Login  had popularize the trend of ones presence in social media but now there are several social media platforms which actually reflects the diversity of Social Media and our online identities we try to create with each one of them.

Twitter had started as a micro blogging site to share braking news, updates and one's viewpoints on current events.

+Tumblr  another micro blogging platform for multimedia and +Instagram a platform to share visuals and the best part is that anyone and everyone can be a part of it. You don't have to be an expert.

And the end of the we all human beings search for our identity and digital media is providing each of us the opportunity to do it. Its up to us how we use it and for what cause. as long as we don't superimpose our real identity with the virtyal one.

Geeky Brands: shaping Lives !!

Feeling wonderful!! New job with new responsibilities and roles and faced the first real challenge today. Suddenly I was informed to give a presentation within 3 hours in a topic I know nothing of except the nomenclature in front of my super boss and super seniors team. And as a "starry-eyed" new member of corporate world I am to eager to impress my seniors and super boss with my sparkling diligent self.

But without any expertise and knowledge in  the concerned topic how to dazzle my corporate family members??

Well I blessed +Larry Page, +Sergey Brin ,+Larry Sanger, +Jimmy Wales , +Corry Jansen  and +Corry wagner , +Bill Gates  and +McKinsey & Company   reports with all my heart.

Without them how on earth I had survived and emerge successfully today ( and yes all my corporate family members were damn impressed by me).And coming back home I send a +LinkedIn  invitation to my super boss (which he accepted ).

All these events of today got me thinking these are not some +Louis Vuitton  bags or +GUCCI  watch which screams we are the brands to notice. But they are "The  Brands" we hardly can live without.

+Google , +Wikipedia ,Investopedia  and many others (open source free technologies) had made knowledge a commodity rather than a premium brand and at the same time had made our life luxurious with the ease of use and accessibility they are able to provide. Algorithms like Google Hummingbird are step towards future trends and lifestyle where voice search and generic queries (rather than content based queries) would be preferable by consumers.Because lets face it the future of smart technology is mobile.

Sharing is Caring

I have started blogging today only and within 2 hours I felt compelled to write another one, and this time I am blogging again for very selfish reason.

When I was a kid my mom use to say whenever you read about something try to write it down then you will remember it.

I read so many news about branding ,advertising, social media and share those links through my social media profiles such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc with amazing power of technology --> share buttons available nowadays within the article page itself but even after that I tend to forget some of those (Yes I am one of less fortunate person with cached memory system brain function !!).

So, if I am blogging why not also write about some of those news I come across everyday.

http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/submarine-surfaces-middle-italian-street-crazy-ad-stunt-152898

The above link is a publicity ad stunt of a submarine emerging created by Saatchi for an insurance company and giving its all its dramatic flair and attentions.

I wish such ads should also come up in India....I mean all these ad companies here  can at least put all those potholes in our metro cities roads to some creative use and be the cause of amusement for us pedestrians.

And talking about brands and social media this is a link for Google's hummingbird role in shaping up social media content marketing

http://socialmediatoday.com/steve-rayson/1796646/10-ways-googles-hummingbird-will-shape-future-seo-and-content-marketing

And the claims it is making can be true,and why not at the end of the day they are trying to utilize the screens of our devices which we use most and for longest period of time.

Because the future innovation of lies how we optimize the screens of various devices and in its way it will create more avenues of branding provided the organizations realize where to stop intruding in personal spaces.

Social Media

Nowadays we read a lot about amazing power of social media as a marketing tool. Every top brands have their social media accounts in social networking sites.

Social networking sites have changed our lifestyle and all the big brands are using it proactively to leverage the riding tides of it. It has become a platform to a sophisticated networks of connection.

And according to my understanding social media  is going through its growth phase of its Life Cycle . For example there are only 74 million internet users in India (as a developing nation it has huge potential of internet users growth).

Through out the 2000's , present and near future social media will witness growth and continue to become integral part of our life (more and more).

But is the future of it lies in another new Facebook or new Twitter. I don't think so.

Energy will be the key to it.

Devices which can provide power supply to numerous wireless devices we are using nowadays .

The screen of the devices we use to communicate and connect are increasing.

It started with Laptops, tablets, mobile smartphones, smart watches and many more to come in next few years.

Energy is the key to future technology. With time there will be various innovative devices and evolution of devices screen space but the main key is to source those devices with sustaining power sources.

Any organization which can optimize not will be able to establish itself as the forerunner in the market, but also will be able to brand itself for what its worth

Brand_Geniuses

Today I was reading an article in AdWeek which was about an annual event for brand geniuses and the first 

name I could recall was David Ogilvy.

We all know that Raymond Rubicam, Leo Burnett, William Bernbach, Ted Bates and David Ogilvy were the

 visionaries who had changed the face of advertising world.Sometimes I wonder what were the things that 

separate brilliant minds from geniuses.

Is it the way they perceive the world or how differently they perceive it...Or is it they had figured out how to 

connect rather communicate better than the rest of the world.

 Leo Burnett’s philosophy, “when you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.”Is it such a simple statement but how easy it to relate to oneself.Don't we all aspire for something and if we could not have it, go for the best alternative.

Some people might say why not always go for the best or be best--- an outstanding achiever can say that or think like it but a normal average (as per the definition of our society) person does not think like that.

At the same time it also have a sense of hope which make the famous quote feel more real to us.

And if we look around us isn't it all come down to how well you can connect and communicate.I mean look at all the successful brands..look at Facebook...there were so many social networking sites at the time Facebook was launched but it stood apart.

Why? Because it was able to connect and communicate its idea to its consumers with simplicity.It is a simple and fun concept which had penetrated in our mind and life and had changed the definition of social media.

And at the same time its ability to understand what can kill it and change accordingly.

Today I again re-read the success stories of  all those mavericks and feeling inspires.And what is most wonderful is that their visions and understanding of media is still relevant . May be the technology had changed but the way to touch people minds and hearts are still all the same.