The traders of Rampur-Mathura village have found a new medium to step up sales. It is the mobile phone. They have now started advertising on Gaon Ki Awaaz, a hyperlocal audio news service that is delivered on the mobile, and which has emerged as the most important news source for villagers living in Rampur-Mathura...
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Facebook’s India story continues to be stunning. The June 30, 2011 data released by Internetworldstats.com places the number of Indian users at 29.47 million. This is 6.45 million more as compared to March 2011 when the number of Indians with a Facebook account stood at 23.02 million. In other words, for the period April...
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Do you want to hone your multimedia skills? If yes, here is your opportunity. Thomson Reuters is inviting journalists from the developing world with a minimum of two years experience to come and learn multimedia journalism. Applications for the training, which will be conducted in London from October 31 to November 4, 2011, will...
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Indians have taken to Google+ in a big way. Between June 29, 2011 to July 19, 2011 – that is the first 21 days of the launch of Google+ — Google+ was adopted by 2.84 million Indians. Only the Americans are ahead of Indians in adopting the latest social media offering from Google. According...
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Facebook continues to be the most popular social media plugin across the world. Latest research released by BrightEdge (July 2011) shows that 47.4% of the top 10,000 websites link to Facebook from their front pages. The next most popular plugin is Twitter. Over 42% of the top 10,000 websites link to Twitter from their...
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If you are a journalist then you should create a Journalist Page on Facebook. The Facebook for Journalists section that was launched by Facebook in April this year provides the following six advantages: 1. It enables you to create a professional presence on Facebook, while keeping your personal profile separate. The readers can connect...
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If you are a journalist and you do not mine Twitter for news leads or source development then you are making a mistake. Here are seven reasons you should start spending time on Twitter: 1. Embedded link: Every tweet includes an embedded hyperlink that guides Twitter users to your news report. More readers get...
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