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TasteCasting is a growing team of socially networked, and social media savvy people that establishments invite to attend a complimentary tasting. In exchange the TasteCasting team broadcasts to their collective network of friends, followers, and linked connections using Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, WordPress, Flickr, and more. The cameras, Flip video, camcorders, smartphones and more tell a complete story about the establishments menu, the taste, smell, the recipes, ingredients, the specials, the history and the overall experience.

So, will tastecasting work in India ? Of course, yes if only companies and establishments identify the power of Twitter, and come up with fresh ideas.

Check out the video here, where a pizza shop in Colorado did a tastecaste where popular Tweeters were given free pizza to taste it and wel..tweet about it.

A friend of mine is looking to hire experienced bloggers for maintaining an organizations blog. Thought I’d post it here, for you to have a look and may be share with potential bloggers. Any help to find the right person is appreciated.

Here’s how the ad-copy would look like.

We are starting a new blog about an organization that is dedicated to helping low income individuals in rural areas.  The blog will have wonderful pictures, videos and posts.  We need to find a very hard working individual to lead this project and manage and write for the blog.  They must be able to post pictures and videos as well.
Main requirements

• Have written and managed a blog before
• excellent writing skills, no grammatical or spelling errors
• ability to resize and post pictures to accompany articles
• ability to write nice small but informative posts (sometimes around 250 words each)
• extremely quick response time to email requests by managers
• extremely quick response time to post brand new content to the blog

In addition we are looking for

• Someone who will not waste time at work (facebook, reading personal emails etc)
• Ability to take initiative
• Willing to help out with other administrative tasks

You can contact me directly, if interested at mani(a)dailyseoblog.com

Lately, there have been a crazy rush with the Indian companies to embrace the social media viral thingy, and many are already dishing out cool viral videos and animations. Some of the best ones here.

Beta No.1 – Amitabh Bachan(Young) and Maa, Old HIndi Movie prank.

Maa Ki Tongue – Mallus must see !

Hera Pheri

Nana Patekar controversy

Himesh Reshammiya Prank

Aamir Khan Filmfare awards speech

Find more funny videos at this channel. They’re awesome !

It was good and great..kickass!
I think there’s something all “unconferences” can learn from this blogcamp, if the venue is different, then it adds that charm and excitement to the event. Been to techno parks and cyber parks, board rooms and indoor stadiums but let me be honest with this, the joy of sailing on a house boat is something that’s exciting. I won’t even try to describe how the food was, I’m not good at it, but it was truly -”kerala”. Not trying to say that all blogcamps has to be on boats but if we can make them outside the board rooms or “echoey” halls it’s always great.

The gathering was diverse and spread out. Around 120 guys from different streams, students, geeks, entrepreneurs, cartoonists, farmer turned bloggers, singers, and lot of enthusiastic bloggers. Can you ask for more?

Pradip Somasundaran, popular playback singer opened up a good discussion on Audio Blogging and ultimately was pushed to reveal out trade secrets of popular singers, when he disclosed that they use sophisticated audio softwares and pitch manipulating plugins. He was talking on softwares, hardwares and publishing platforms for audio bloggers.

Kenney Jacob had a good presentation on his passionate topic – Campus Blogging.

Kerala Farmer – is a true inspiration and representative of passion towards blogging. This gentleman from kerala is a farmer, who finds time out to blog (on his numerous regional language blogs) even when he has to find time to cultivate and look after his poultry. I was amazed to see his technological expertise in regional blogging, linux and blogging platforms. As a matter of fact he had discontinued his education after the tenth grade. (And he’s currently in his 60’s) He has revealed many “disturbing facts” he himself found out from the Governments data, which he says is often corrupt and misleading. He intends to bring forth truth on these through his blog and rightly says – “Blogs are my weapons!

Sanjjeev, a popular cartoonist from kerala had all the crowd around him, as he was busy sketching cartoons of almost everyone in the boat. 120 of them!

I was doubtful on what knowledge level should I address the gathering on SEO, as they were diverse, but somehow pulled it off with hints on profitable blogging, and how seo and social media can help you. I have the slide uploaded on Slideshare – not a great one, but you may like it.