The more I get sucked into the exciting world of emerging Social Media the more I am at awe. No I don’t have the answers, but questions I have in plenty. As a matter of fact, as I sit down to write this, here are the top 25 that cross my mind randomly. I have sought to list them – hash-tagged and packaged in a ready to consume format so that you too can pander to your basic needs of instant gratification. Triviality be damned and a body blow dealt to verbose ponticiation.

Please go ahead and think about them. Discuss if you may or treat them for all they are worth and just tweet them – they are all tagged and Tweetable so that they, with a little click from you, can scour the farthest corners of the net (and human consciousness) seeking the ultimate knowledge.

1. Will #SocialMedia ultimately lead to the formation of #communities around #ideas that are not limited or restricted by #geography?
2. With everyone becoming a #Journalist, will #SocialMedia lead to the #evolution of the #media or will it sound its #deathknell?
3. I #Tweet, therefore I am. For, you are what you #post!
4. Is it true that the more #connected we are in the #SocialMedia,the more information we volunteer, the more #vulnerable we become?
5. Can Our #Online Persona’s have #Offlimit contents? Can we offer only a partial view to our inner recesses in the #SocialMedia space?
6. Do #primemovers in the #SocialMedia space run the risk of getting “hoist in their own petards”, nay #Twitters?
7. OK. Everyone is entitled to his or her #Opinion in #SM.But why #force them on to me? Why #violate my #PrivateSpace with your public vitriol?
8. How does one shift the grains from the chaff in #SocialMedia?What is #Real, what is #Rumour?Who’s taking conscience’s #call & whos a #troll?
9. How do you identify the #Organised #MaliceMongers in #SocialMedia? #Peddlers of #ReligiousPornography? #HateCrusaders? #PopPaedophiles?
10. How Diff is a #Facebook friend frm a real #Friend?Has #SocialMedia transformed #Reality in2 #VirtualReality?Is #ReachingOut a mere #Tweet?
11. Is #SocialMedia turning us all in2 pathetic consumers of #instantnoodles? Is the desire 2 be heard in #-Tags robbing us ur ability to think
12. By feeding on our #obsession for #instantgratification, is #SocialMedia sucking us into a #BlackHole of #insensitivity,making life #plastic?
13. Is #SocialMedia forcing us more and more to commit #SelectionBias as we miss the woods for the trees?#TweeterOpinion 4 #MoodOfTheNation?
14. Can #Aggressive, #Aspirational, #Consumerist, #Instantaneous #Tweet-ards create #Art & #Science that transcends time. #T20 replace #Tests?
15. With armies of trollers on the move, what are the chances of a #SocialMedia #Mutiny. Will the #DarkSide emerge? Will the #EmpireStrikeBack?
16. Ever Notice, how your fingers speak in the #SocialMedia faster than you think in #RealLife? Someday, they will have a name for that disease!
17. So #SocialMedia has #empowered the #Morons to be Heard. But how do you #Mute the #Idiots? Their #cacophony is already #deafening, #defining?
18. How effective are we,urban #SocialMedia exponents sowing #political seeds over the rural #voters who are plowing the #electoral fields?
19. #SocialMedia has removed the #Barriers– but is it a gr8 #leveler,or has it just helped us #metamorphose into #voyeurs? #Visionaries or #Oglers
20. #SocialMedia has ensured that #CustomerEngagement become a truly #democratic, 2way process. Power shift from the #brands to the #consumers?
21. If you are a #Brand wanting to #Connect, is the #Youth really just a #ClickAway in #SocialMedia? What does it take to embrace them?
22. Can Solutions #CrowdSourced in the #SocialMedia lead you to #Nirvana? Imagine #Buddha or #Jesus or #Gandhi #Tweeting a #Revolution ?
23. Is #SocialMedia just a #means to an #end, or is it an end in itself?
24. Does #BruteForce work in #SocialMedia? Can one just be #ShoutedDown by a well oiled machine of #sycophants? Can they mold #Opinion as well?
25. Is #SocialMedia as simple as the #conversations u help create around ur #brand? Are you are mere hand-holder, poking the dormant 2 action?

Feel free to TweetBack your response. Who knows, we may even end up trending with #JustinBeiber and #LoveJihad and #PoonamPandey

You can follow me in Twitter: https://twitter.com/CharmChawm

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Fellow Corporate Communicators, Social Media Wizards, Twitterati,

Dear Friends,

We will complete Three years this September. With your help, assistance and good wishes we have continued on what we had set out to create – a platform where you can tell the story of your brands. Stories told the way you Communication Professionals craft them with your tender loving care. Stories that will not only stretch the horizons of traditional PR, but will also play their part as the domain evolves and integrates itself into the exciting realm of digital, Social Media.

Allow me to take this opportunity of thanking you for the hand holding as I enriched my two and half decade experience in Traditional Media PR and integrated my skill sets into this space. As a fellow practitioner I thought it prudent to share a few thoughts with you as I move forward.

I feel we are now at a position where we can add further value to your work.

•  Towards this end, we would gradually be moving away from vanilla Press Releases and concentrate more on original, exclusive content. Please feel free to contact us for any specific story idea that you may have and we can work with you to develop the same into fruition. The idea will be to ensure better visibility and higher rankings for the client / brand.
• Reports, Interviews, Industry Reviews, Photo features … we are open for all formats, as long as our readers get to enrich themselves with targeted information and your client gets to communicate their efficacy.
• We will stress on the visibility factor – so please add the client’s logo and all relevant pictures, apart from their Web URL’s.
• Each one of our stories is Search Engine Optimised and Social Media Integrated. Please feel free to highlight the Key Words so that we can be doubly sure about the Meta Tags.

Keeping with the time tested traditions of PR I will not ask you for money and will continue to be driven by the belief that content should always be free. However, I am sure that you will understand when I say that our costs are spiraling by the day and while I have paid for the operations strictly out of my resources thus far, I may not be able to continue much longer. Under the circumstances, I shall be grateful, if you kindly:

• Have us considered by your clients when they draw up their advertising budgets so that we too may have a viable revenue stream that is legitimate.
• Consider us for special Advertorial Features – we promise to create killer content for them and make every Rupee count.
• Partner us for bespoke events that we can design and execute to ensure that you are able to create the PR around it.
• Discuss creation and maintenance of industry specific webzines that will be used exclusively as vehicles of your client’s communication
• Discuss Corporate Communication strategies of add the chutzpah to your client speak
• Enlist our assistance in helping clients cross the digital divide and integrate their communication efforts in the Social Media. We can also assist you in drawing up Social Media Policies and help clients use their existing workforce to add Social Media muscles.
• Create exclusive content – either on a one off or on a continuous basis.
• Talk to us for Training client employees / Seminar participants on Communication / Social Media / Public Relations or related disciplines

Friends WTF (?) is no more an exclamatory swear. It now denotes WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook. I believe I can help you, as you take your client through the Worm Hole, call us before Alice takes the job. And certainly before she is replaced by the Rabbit !

Should you require any further clarifications please feel free to drop me a mail.

With Best Regards,

Chawm Ganguly

Editor

www.corecommunique.com

Email: chawm.ganguly@gmail.com; editor@corecommunique.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CharmChawm 

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We have just passed the 200,000 hits mark. Thank you readers. It is your continued interest and support over the last 15 months that urges us on and has brought us this far. We will now open our platform to friends and associates wanting to reach out with their advertising messages. We are also available to provide content led social media integration services to help clients take their corporate communication / brand building exercises to the next level.

Thanks again,

Chawm Ganguly

Editor

editor@corecommunique.com / chawm.ganguly@gmail.com

You can follow me in Twitter: https://twitter.com/CharmChawm

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