If you live dream and sleep Social Media, BusinessBlogging is the place you should be working at.
At Business Blogging, we’ve openings for Content Writers, Social Media Evangelists and SEO Analysts. You’ll have an opportunity of working with a team of passionate individuals and some of the best clients.
More details will be out soon.
We also welcome students who’d like to intern with us.
If you have it in you, drop a mail at jobs@businessblogging.org or get in touch with our CEO Kiruba Shankar directly (you know where to find him.. don’t you?)
Ford Figo’s 50000th car, that toured all of India during October 2010, has helpd company raise Rs 20 lakhs for charity. The Discover Smart Drive saw its grand finale in Chennai today, wherein press was invited to share the success story.
Some highlights…
§ Ford India dealers contributed and generated funds for community development
§ Discover Smart Drive – 25 day road trip promotion flagged off from Chandigarh on 5th October 2010 culminated successfully in Chennai
§ The special Figo designed by popular television host and artist Harun Robert (a.k.a. Rob) generated tremendous support from dealers with proceeds generated by dealer body to be used for community development
§ Figo crossed the 50000th sales milestone in October; is the second fastest car model in India to reach 50000 sales mark and has emerged as one of the most popular car in its segment
§ Discover Smart Drive generated exponential online response in 25 days (About 10k fans on facebook…)
Photo by Shrinidhi Hande
”The Discover Smart Drive has helped us connect and thank consumers across India. The Figo has achieved outstanding results. Figo is the second fastest car model in India to have crossed the 50,000 sales milestone and that is a reflection of the confidence our customers have in us and we will boost the morale further as we move forward” said Michael Boneham, president and managing director, Ford India.
To engage other Figo owners, the “Figo four” shared personal road stories, photos, videos and experiences via their Facebook, Twitter and Orkut profiles and blogs. Customers and fans also followed the drive via Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/fordfigo), Orkut (http://bit.ly/orkutfigo), Twitter (http://twitter.com/fordfigo) and a Driving Ford blog (http://www.drivingford.in) and helped the couples out by posting valuable suggestions, advice and tips along the way.
Talking about Ford India’s marketing strategy to create an integrated campaign, Nigel E Wark, executive director, Marketing, Sales and Services said, “True to its concept, the Discover Smart Drive enabled the lucky couples to explore smart things about India along with smart features of the Figo. Using an integrated approach involving digital, marketing and our growing dealer network, we were able to take the Figo to consumers’ doorstep and have multiple positive conversations on new mediums.”
Seen as the success, the drive was successful in driving positive conversations around the brand and resulted in increasing Figo’s fan base on Facebook to over 15,000 people. Over 600 updates posted on the experiential drive and resulted in showcasing key Figo differentiators such as spaciousness, fuel economy and air conditioning from over 5,000 comments across social networking sites.
“The response that we have got from this campaign has taken Figo’s popularity to a different level. We thank our online supporters also in this endeavour. Figo has been the top-selling vehicle in five out of seven months, since its launch and we wish to sustain this phenomenon.” Wark concluded.
Watch this interesting video below to know about the ongoing Ford Figo Discover smart drive. Our staff Shrinidhi Hande had a brief interaction with Nischal Ram and Niharika, the 4th lucky couple chosen to drive the 50000th Ford Figo from Hyderabad till Chennai.
One of India’s first few and most reputed Blogger and Business blogging CEO Mr. Kiruba Shankar was featured in an article Titled “From the blogosphere” in the local supplement of Times Of India – “My times Ashok Nagar” datedJuly 10, 2010
The article Talks about Kiruba shannkar’s passion towards blogging and how he changed his passion to his career. “I have absolutely no regrets about the decisions I have taken with respect my career. I thoroughly enjoy my life.” he says
Speaking about the location of the office, Kiruba say that setting up main office in virugambakkam happened to be one of his best decisions of his life. He adds, “I had a the choice of setting up in the Conventional IT parks but then my wife Sujani Kiruba, helped me a great deal in zeroing into this place.”
Mr. Kiruba Shankar also spearheaded several key events such as Cerebrate, Proto.in, TEDxChennai, Facebook Developer Garage
Looking at the future of Social media Kiruba is very optimistic and says “I am extremely bullish about social media and Chennai as well. Nowadays smaller firms are benefiting from social media. There is an entrepreneurship spirit around and its really great to see that some of the ideas are becoming big hits”
About The Company:
BusinessBlogging Pvt Ltd, a reputed social media Consulting Company, headed by Mr. Kiruba Shankar BusinessBlogging Pvt Ltd, Chennai’s leading new media consulting company that specializes in Corporate Blogging, Social Media strategy, Online campaigns, Events and more.
Mr. Kiruba Shankar was quoted in an article titled “School is In” in Outlook Business (September 4 2010 edition). The article features MR. G. Venkatesh – founder School for India initiative (for whom Business Blogging has been helping with online initiatives). We are happy to share with you the photos of the article.
Article About Schools for India on Outlook Business
Kiruba Shankar Being quoted in Outlook Business
You can also read the E-version of the article here
Schools for India is a non profitable charitable global organization. Each country organization is independent of each other, and complies with the local laws and regulations. Schools for India is involved in creating the best in class schools across India, with the aim of providing education for the people of rural India.
6000 schools across the country have been planned. Each of the schools will have the capacity to teach 945 students, including up to 15 special children from primary to secondary school.
Schools for India was started in January 2004 and registered as a Non profit charitable trust under the Indian charitable trust Act in December 2005
During the Mashable Meetup at LIBA (Loyola Institute of Business Administration) got an opportunity to talk about the Relevance of Blogging.
Are blogs still relevant in the days of twitter, facebook, foursquare and the likes? This was the main agenda of the talk and I also touched upon my experience as Official Blogger for Tata Nano Superdrive and Corporate Blogging in general.
When I asked the audience if they thought whether or not blogging is still relevant, more than 50% of the audience stated that they think blogging is still relevant. Only one gentleman said its not relevant anymore as people have no time to write lengthy blog posts and are moving to twitter and facebook. Rest of the audience were in Don’t know/Can’t say mode.
In my talk I shared an opinion that blogging is still relevant, based on following observations:
Blogging is getting accepted at par with media. Most of the companies and PR agencies have started to invite bloggers for their press meets, product launches or events.
For twitter, facebook and foursquare, you’re its inventory and not customer. Every minute you spend (or waste) on facebook, facebook makes money. Blogging platform in turn gives you complete control over the content, design and monetization.
Facebook updates are not searchable by search engines and twitter updates seldom appear in search results. Blogs continue to derive good volume of traffic from search engines
Twitter and FB has very short attention span. Unless an update goes viral (through retweets etc) its easily lost in the flood of new updates on your timeline.
Few years ago blogging was a fashion and everyone jumped into the bandwagon. At present, I feel not so serious players have moved away from blogging (to twitter n FB) while serious writers continue to run their blogs as effectively as earlier. All popular bloggers are also active on twitter and fb and are using these platforms effectively to promote their blogs. Building an effective blog takes time and efforts but pays off well in long run.
Companies continue to invest in their corporate blogs
2010 will be an ambitious year for us at Business Blogging. We’ve plans to expand in terms of geography as well as service offerings. To achieve this, a key investment will be in people. We’re looking for social media enthusiasts who believe in the power of web2.0. If you enjoy working on social media, businessblogging is the place to be.
A day at Businessblogging is always fun. We keep meeting interesting people, take part in wide range of events, do innovative research and social media strategies, travel around and continuously focus on R&D in the space of social media. Our CEO, Kiruba Shankar, is an inspiration by himself and he ensures that all concerns are taken care of. Its no more work, when you enjoy what you do.
Below are some of our immediate openings. Reach us if you think one of these openings has your name on it. Please spread the world among your friends.
Graphics Designers:
Creative people with 1-2 years experience in Graphics design using photoshop and other tools. Knowledge of basic animation/flash will be added advantage.
Research Analysts:
Candidates with journalism/engineering or MBA background who are passionate about Social Media are welcome to join us as Research Analysts. As a research analyst you’ll work on innovative social media strategies and their implementations, under the guidance of some of the best Social Media evangelists. Freshers are also welcome.
Content Developers:
If you enjoy writing, have a command over English and understand basics of Social Media, join us.
Part Time Jobs/ Freelancers:
If you wish to pursue your passion in social media, but not in a position to take it up full time, feel free to reach us, we can explore possibilities how we can work together.
Php Developer:
1-2 years experience in php based website and application development, coupled with strong open source skills are critical. Candidate will have to coordinate with multiple teams to build world class web solutions.
Asst Manager, Events:
Energetic individuals passionate about event management, should have excellent personality,ability to coordinate with multiple teams. Past experience in an event management company or experience organizing college level events are strongly desired.
How to apply?
Mail your resume to jobs@businessblogging.org
Alternatively, you may reach our CEO, Kiruba Shankar, directly on twitter or facebook
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