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Politicians reputation
Apple Siri gender bias or glitch?
December 7, 2011 | 
Author Siri’s obvious unwillingness to help a woman to find abortion clinics has created ire. The latest controversy could not have come at a time when the company is facing tough competition from their Android-powered counterpart. Angered by Siri’s failure to locate even one result has had people sign mass petitions to Apple. Blogs and comments are keeping the controversy alive thus putting Apple in a delicate situation. We have to see how they tackle this serious issue.
As always, the problem with Apple is they fail to understand that to develop such an effective feature, Siri has to learn about the user; it should customize itself to know every detail about an institution or an individual. Guess what? Siri transforms your speech into a search algorithm and uses the 3rd part search engine to obtain result. If the search engine fails to return the information, Apple gets the blame for not having programmed that way. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Android, Apple Inc., Apple Store, Business, Reputation Management, siri controversy | 
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Anatomy of a modern-day political PR campaign in India
The Anna Hazare fast, now that’s its over, was a nifty PR campaign and a great political one at that. While the 74-year-old Anna with his 12-day fast resembling the many fasts that Gandhi made for the country before and after independence has become an icon; ‘Team Anna’ walked away with PR success. Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi and other popular people like actors Anupam Kher, Om Puri and Aamir Khan all made up the PR machine behind the scenes for Team Anna. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Journalists and Reporters, National Reputation, politicians, Politicians reputation, PR / Public Relations, Press & Journalism, Reputation News, Social Network Sites | Tags: Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal, India, India Against corruption, Kiran Bedi, Political campaign, PR / Public Relations, Ramlila Maidan | No Comments »
How to avoid accidental social media disasters
Do you have an active social media life? If the answer is a ‘Yes’ you need to be reading this post.
Post the ‘Weinergate’ incident, when an accidental tweet with an obscene photo that should have been made via direct message to an on-line girlfriend went public on Rep. Weiner’s timeline forcing his resignation, it is time to list out ways to avoid such social media disasters.
Armed with Android smartphones and numerous social media accounts on Facebook and Twitter is by itself a challenging situation. So you have your personal Twitter and Facebook account, and your companies’/clients’ both on a computer and sometimes even on your smartphone. Juggling these daily is daunting to say the least.
The other aspect is your own social life and how you conduct yourself in social circles, what pictures you post on Twitter and Facebook and so on. Ask around and you’re sure to know quite a number of people who have suffered the ‘Freudian slip’ or in this case the ‘Freudian click’ sending the wrong message to an ex-flame/spouse. You end up dealing with not just the horror of such a predicament but also the sinking feeling that it could have been easily avoided.
Here’s how you can avoid accidental social media disasters: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Celebrity Reputation, Damage Limitation, Personal Reputation, Politicians reputation, Reputation Management, Reputation News, Reputation Online, SEO, Social Network Sites | Tags: Android phone, Anthony Weiner, facebook, Hootsuite, Online social networking, Seesmic, social media, Tweetdeck, twitter, Weinergte | 2 Comments »