Day 1 at #MasaiMara

Yes, Gul Panag has crossed the figure of 100,000 followers. She is among the few Indian celebrities who are enjoying this figure.

Twitter, should thank to few Indians to promote their service in its initial days, and Gul is one of them. When Twitter started as a Social Network ,very few of the celebrities used this for their broadcasting and interaction. Gul used the platform since very beginning for interaction and conversation with her fans. She is considered in those few celebrities who always reply tweets of her fans. Her following count is also like a common twitter user.

Most of her tweets include social and human issues and perhaps that makes a difference. In last few months , Twitter has become a club of celebrities and most of them are using this -as a promotion channel or a branding platform, but meanwhile twitter users have become smarter. Now they follow only those who talk sense. And, if you cross the range of 100,000 , that means you talk sense.

People expect a lot from celebrities, they have a weight and presence. Their voice makes an impact and celebrities are respected who work in that way. Gul, used twitter as a real social network. She used Social thing from networking and gave it a mean.

We congratulate her for getting this achievements.

Though the Independence Day celebrations are held in the office every year, nevertheless the enthusiasm was quite obvious. The whole office was decorated with lots of tricolor balloons & flags which evoked the patriotic feeling in all of us.

To top the occasion it was mandatory for all to wear traditional dress in Tri Color. The participation was in full and the feeling of patriotism could be seen in one and all.

As a part of celebration we had a special lunch for all. It was a deliciously tempting menu, Veg. Biryani, Puri and Raita. To sweeten our taste buds we had Moong Dal halwa which was absolutely Yum and fantastic. Everyone relished the same.

Lunch was followed by work but only to gather and enjoy in the evening for an I. D celebrations.

Evening was a big blast as we had a lot of exciting things lined up as a part of the celebrations. The weather was perfect to have the get-together on the terrace. At 5:00pm everyone completed their tasks and gathered for the celebrations. The event started with all of us singing our National Anthem. This was followed by a special Quiz based on the Independence Day which had chocolates as prize for the correct answer. It got a very heartening response. Everybody participated and lots of prizes were distributed. Hitesh was able to give the names of all the Prime Ministers India has had till date in proper sequence. Vishwaranjan was able to tell the names of all the symbols of India. Many tried and failed but yet continued trying in hope to win at least one chocolate. Traditionally dressed men and women were also awarded with a chocolate.

Quiz competition was followed by kite flying. All gathered with Chakris and kites and a cut throat competition began among them. There were light snacks for all. The tempting pakora’s were complementing with the pleasant weather

To add icing on the cake, a contest was rolled out by the Twitsnaps team. All members of twitter could post their snaps on Twitsnaps related to Independent India and win loads of Cash Prizes. So everybody geared up for the week-end with the motive of clicking and posting snaps of the “Independent India”

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.~ Richard Bach

And that’s just what we did

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At Sagar Ratna,Janakpuri-Delhi Twitsnaps hosted 15th Social media breakfast meetup. Topic of discussion was “Role of media sharing in social media”

Who Attended: Simarprit singh,Neerja, Hitesh Mathpal,Kaushik Pal, Ashutosh Pandey,Neha Kulwal, Daman Anand, Harvinder Singh, Raphael Dalle.

Hitesh started the topic throwing some light on social media platforms and media sharing through them.He told it is growing and evolution in technology is helping it to grow fast.
Simar addressed that the no of users in social media sites are growing so fast and the changing thinking towards life is provoking not even youths as well as each person to be active on youtube,Flickr,Slideshare,Twitter,Twitpic and Twitsnaps.People like to share where they are and what they are doing among their friends and others.

Members were asking questions to simar that how media sharing could be helpful in increasing traffic on a particular site and so is the revenue part. simar answered them that you need to be active on social media platforms and must use the search algorithm to find out the trends and right people to talk about your products/concept and then see the magic.

Meanwhile we ordered our breakfast and enjoyed it a lot and discussion moved on to some technology part.Hitesh told how changing technology is helpful and affecting social media platforms like Twitter and facebook.He told that they get more than 50% of traffic from third party application and vice-versa. Members asked question during enjoying their breakfast and get their answer by the other members of #SMBTS.
The discussion was very insightful and i am sure that everybody has got a chance to learn more on Social media.
Cheers to SMBTS.

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At Sagar Ratna,Janakpuri-Delhi Twitsnaps hosted 14th Social media breakfast meetup. Topic of discussion was “Social Media and SEO integration”

Who Attended: Simarprit singh,Mani, Hitesh Mathpal,Kaushik Pal, Khushbu, Ashutosh Pandey,Puneet Bajaj,Daman Anand, Harvinder Singh.

Hitesh Started the topic “Social Media and SEO integration”.He shared that this is the need of our for companies having business of internet marketing as it helps in getting more traffic and earn revenue.

Kaushik shared his view supported with some practical examples.Ha shared the example of compare infobase ltd. which has optimized smo with seo very well and getting profit out of it by investing very less.

Simarp started with an example that how google is crawling the real time results (e.g. tweets with hashtag) and this has generated many new keywords. He also said that SMO integration with SEO has become the need of the hour to be available in the top results of google.

Whereas Mani said that result of SMO integration with SEO varies with the degree of involvement and purpose.He said that by SMO the traffic come to a website is not big in numbers.Hence if one is planning to integrate SMO with SEO he must be clear on his/her goals.

Daman Anand asked about how it could be helpful for a flower business & simarp answered him to start a website which advice people on flowers for occasion and its uses and then start moving towards achieving the specified goal.

Puneet Bajaj said that google has not enough metrics to show the SMO results with search results.He said that they came up caffeine and they are still exploring it. Simarp contradicted this point of puneet that google do not have enough metrics and in proof he showed the real time results of tweets having the tag #SMBTS on google’s first page.

Ashutosh,Khushbu and Harvinder were listening attentively; Khushbu and harvinder asked questions regarding the technology changes and increasing presence of social networking sites whereas ashutosh was tweeting live of each persons’ point on Twitter and sharing some snaps on Twitsnaps.
Cheers to SMBTS.

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At Compare infobase Ltd. Janakpuri-Delhi Twitsnaps hosted 13th Social media breakfast meetup. Topic of discussion was “Twitter vs Facebook”-Which is better for business?

Who Attended: Simarprit singh,Neerja Bhaskar, Hitesh Mathpal, Komal arora puri, Ashutosh Pandey,Neha Kulwal, Harleen kaur, Puneet Bajaj, Shubhangi, Soumya, Prashanta Roy.

We started this discussion in which we had two teams one was supporting Facebook and other one was supporting Twitter.
Facebook supporters were Neha Kulwal, Harleen Kaur, Shubhangi Gupta and Saumya Agarwal.
Twitter supporters were Simarprit Singh, Puneet Bajaj, Neerja Bhaskar, Ashutosh Pandey, Komal Puri, Hitesh Mathpal, and Prashanta Roy.

Everybody was given a chance to speak for 2 mins as why they support facebook or twitter and how it is useful for their businesses.
Here we came with following points:

Why Twitter??

• Twitter has great reach to anywhere, to anybody and, in that respect, is also analogous to a pure search engine; another way to find people and content all over the Net.
• To promote something Twitter is extremely valuable as you get instantaneous response and it seems that you are live somewhere between the worlds of email, instant messaging and blogging.
• Twitter quickly build brand awareness and a loyal following, especially among the technically adept; bloggers, online marketers etc
• Reach far beyond your inner circle of friends
• Very interactive, extensible messaging platform with open APIs and has applications like twitsnaps.com where you can share pictures.
• Anyone can follow anyone and thus you can update , link to promote anything, your product will have more reach to customers
• Ony to Many model make it more effective for business perspective.

Why Facebook??

• Facebook is a platform or an interface where you can manage all your online social interaction needs with facebook chats, marketplace and fan pages etc.
• Facebook is more Visual and interactive based so it is much more effective for businesses where your visual presence is more important.
• Facebook Marketplace has come up with many to many models and thus it has more reach to potential customers.
• People can quickly grasp the value of connecting with friends, family and established contacts and thereby helpful where business is local and small scale.
• Has strong viral effect which can help you in promoting your product easily.
• Facebook has huge, rapidly growing installed user base and thus it is a market place for businesses where reference plays a strong role.
• Constant engagement, third party applications, “gift giving” and personal data collection make Facebook a powerful advertising platform.

In the end, both Twitter and Facebook are important and effective social media tools in their own way and it depends on the objective of the business as one can be more effective than other .Both will continue to evolve and it depends on you in which best way you can use these tools for promoting your product.

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At Sagar Ratna, Janakpuri-Delhi Twitsnaps hosted 11th Social media breakfast meetup. Topic of discussion was “How do we encourage M-commerce through social media”

Who Attended: Simarprit singh, Kaushik Pal, Hitesh Mathpal, Komal arora puri, Ashutosh Pandey,Neha Kulwal, Puneet Bajaj, Harvinder, Daman Anand.

Simar initiated the discussion telling about how beneficial M commerce is in present scenario and M commerce is an important business aspect for websites. He also gave his real life examples on how M commerce made difference to their lifestyle.

Hitesh explained the concept of payment gateways to the audience and introduced 3G.He also explained how 3G is going to affect the m-commerce concept and ways to monetize it.

Puneet explained mobile usage has increased rapidly due to the evolution of Internet and other mobile technologies and due to this it has provided seamless opportunities for various online businesses.

Neha and Komal discussed how reach is increasing to customers having M commerce websites.

Kaushik and Ashutosh explained having M commerce or a mobile channel involves low cost and by doing that you can attract more traffic. Also, Technology has changed the way people use their mobile devices.  Most of the people do their shopping by using their mobile device to gather information or to communicate on social media.

Daman Anand asked few questions regarding how M commerce will help in getting traffic for the site he owns and also if search engines giving importance to the M commerce websites.A new member came today in the SMB Harvinder, who shared his views and experiences on the M commerce

So in the end we concluded that Smart-Phones are latest fashion today and technology has changed the way people use their mobile devices.
Any business owner should opt for a mobile website while planning for business expansions and also M commerce is being used through Social Media as an essential part of Internet marketing strategy which makes a huge difference to your online business campaign.
Cheers to SMBTS

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At Sagar Ratna, Janakpuri-Delhi Twitsnaps hosted 10th Social media breakfast meetup. Topic of discussion was “Twitter for Business”

Who Attended: Simparprot singh, Manvinder Singh, Kaushik Pal, Hitesh Mathpal, Ashutosh Pandey,Neha Kulwal, Harleen kaur, Puneet Bajaj, Sangeeta, Shubhangi, Khusbu,Santosh, Daman Anand

10th Social media Breakfast meetup started today in the morning at sagar ratna Janakpuri Delhi over “Twitter for Business”

As the topic was “Twitter for Business” everyone was excited to know about it. Simarprit started the discussion with saying that twitter has changed the way of relationship marketing. Not only internet companies but also non-internet companies are using twitter to promote their business. He also emphasized on twitter search as a tool to optimize your business.

Hitesh talked about that how one could optimize Geo-location tool to optimize local results. Where as mani contradicted his points and said that one need to look after the options to find out local customers and then need to optimize results for business. He also told that Business objective definition is critical.

Ashutosh explained the concept of promoted tweets that twitter has opted to generate business and companies like starbucks are optimizing this type of advertisement through twitter whereas twitter is looking for the ways to optimize this technology to optimize their business.

Mean while Daman was very interested and asking questions about twitter for business and about Geo-location. Puneet shred his view regarding the same and emphasized that twitter has provided the flexibility to users and said that Twitter for business is going through transition.

Kaushik pal also shared his views on twitter for business and shared some real life examples and told how he optimized twitter for his online business and maintained a relationship with his clients.Neha ,Harleen, Khusbu,Santosh were very keened to know how they could optimize twitter for business for their projects. We also had some lights moments while discussing the topic as mani said that there is a life beyond twitter and everyone laughed enjoying their breakfast at Sagar Ratna.

Cheers to SMBTS

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We are happy to introduce some new features in twitsnaps.com .Specially when you are accessing the site from your mobile phone-

You can view Snaps in SNAPTU
Now you can view the snaps posted on twitsnaps on your snaptu mobile client. They just added our API on that for displaying the snap.

m.twitsnaps is on OAuth now
Yes, our mobile version http://m.twitsnaps.com is on OAuth now. Now this site is more secure.

Phone Detection
Yet again a new feather in twitsnaps’ cap. You just type http://twitsnaps.com on your mobile web browser and our server detects your request. Since your request is from mobile, it automatically loads lighter version of twitsnaps to you that is http://m.twitsnaps.com

Good news of Uber Twitter and Other Client Users
We just fixed the issue of not opening the page of twitsnaps from uber twitter and other mobile clients like (Twitter for blackberry, Echofone etc). You just click on the twitsnaps link of the tweet , our server detects your request. And as you are from mobile it gives you the display of snap in mobile compatible page (m.twitsnaps.com).

At Sagar Ratna, Janakpuri-Delhi Twitsnaps hosted 9th Social media breakfast meetup. Topic of discussion was “Google Caffeine: Impacts on SEO and Social Media”

Who Attended: Manvinder Singh, Hitesh Mathpal,Komal arora, Ashutosh Pandey,Neha Kulwal, Harleen kaur, Puneet Bajaj, Subir Roy,Monoj Kumar Sharma, Ramesh, Daman

9th Social media Breakfast meetup started today in the morning at sagar ratna Janakpuri Delhi over “Google Caffeine: Impacts on SEO and Social Media”

Manoj who suggested to discuss on it started the discussion with his knowledge on Google caffeine- a new search engine from google.He explains the parameters on which google is emphasizing are speed, accuracy, relevancy and freshness of content.

After monoj; Mani with his real time examples explained that now Google will be able to index content faster; that will certainly give an upper edge to SMO over SEO. He told that now organization must need to seek good smo’s with seo’s to make an equivalent team to work upon a site to improve its internet visibility and traffic.

Hitesh as always goes some technical and unveiled the algorithm of old indexing system and google caffeine indexing system.He told that now spammers will be out of race and user generated content and relevant keywords will win the race.
Puneet supported hitesh and emphasized over user generated content and real time crawling algorithm of google caffeine.

Neha Kulwal was very excited during coversation and she could not stop her to discuss on how Caffeine give importance to Social Media presence of a site and helping in getting crawled and indexed faster. Ashutosh was also thrilled noting down the points of discussion and also discussed that there will be no wonder if you could find some links in top searches which are old or you have never heard of such websites. he also shared that now internet companies need to hire SMO’s to make their presence on the top. Harleen and komal explained how quickly you can adapt to the caffeine (means google caffeine ) and also that this change doesn’t make any of the crawling, indexing, or ranking factors more or less important than before. It simply makes fresh crawled content available in search results more quickly than before.

Daman was learning and noting down every single point on it and Ramesh discussed about new advertisement impact by Google Caffeine.

During discussion we have ordered our choices for breakfast and interestingly most of us ordered Dahi Vada that make it perfect “Social Media Meetup -Discussion over Google caffeine with a Dahi Vada”

Cheers to SMBTS

Discussion over Google caffeine with a Dahi Vada

At Sagar Ratna, Janakpuri-Delhi Twitsnaps hosted 8th Social media breakfast meetup. Topic of discussion was “Online Profile Management : You can make or break your social networking success.”

Who Attended: Manvinder Singh,Kaushik Pal, Hitesh Mathpal, Ashutosh Pandey, AnushkaSharma,Neha Kulwal, Harleen kaur, Puneet Bajaj, Subir Roy,Sunil kumar Gupta, Monoj Kumar Sharma, Ramesh, Daman, Vivek

After formal intorduction of the SMBTS group members by Hitesh Mathpal the topic started on an introductory note by Anushka where she explained the importance of building an online profile and the important factors to be considered for successful profile management. She also added that your profile is personality of the user. The discussion then took off with Daman who was having a doubt that Online profile management could also be called as “Reputation management”.

Manvinder singh (Mani) ( Director of CIL ) who joined us first time said that networking is always a positive factor which could be utilized well. He took and explained a case study on Cafe Coffee Day in that context. He also explained that if your profile could build a personality which imply your works and achievement then it could turn into good results for your business.

Kaushik Pal explained the topic by taking an example of Anand Mahindra’smanagement of his twitter profile to empower the customers to give him feedback about Mahindra products. Further Hitesh introduced the importance of staying on line with the social media tools such as ping.fm, pixelpipe.com and the need to wisely select social media tools according to target audience.

Ashutosh highlighted the importance of updates and profile customization in twitter, facebook and other social media platforms. He said everything you write on your profile about you explain about you. Puneet stressed on the fact that it is more about image building, brand building and it is the user experience which counts the most. He agreed with mani on his example of surf Excel -”Daag Acche Hain” campaign which utilized social media as a tool to build its brand personality.

Sunil Gupta (a marketing professional ) explained that social media communities and networking as important tools to power your online profile and it is important to monitor what others are saying about you. Subir Roy (a marketing professional ) brought forward the viewpoint of using social media profile as a marketing effort- the aim should be customer engagement, brand awareness and promotions.

Neha and Harleen highlighted that the purpose of your presence in social media determines the way you put updates on various social media websites such as twitter and facebook. Ramesh shared a tool which could be used to manage your profile.

Meanwhile we were about to finish our breakfast and at the end we had some light moments and decided to move towards our offices.

Cheers to SMBTS

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