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How Government, private sector and non profit entities are supporting Indian artisans

Women1
| 25 mins ago

The Indian government, the private sector and non profits are each involved in the Indian artifacts sector but their roles have evolved in silos, with little specialization and much duplication. Since independence, the Indian government has created a number of institutions, schemes and welfare programs for the crafts sector. However, on a policy level there has been no concerted and cohesive effort to address the challenges faced by the crafts ecosystem.

Social & Green News

Winners of The Rockefeller Foundation 2013 Centennial Innovation Challenge Announced

Centennial Innovation Challenge 2013 Winners
| 4 hours ago

The Rockefeller Foundation has selected 10 Winners of the Centennial Innovation Challenge, a competition launched in search of solutions that improve livelihoods for poor or vulnerable workers in the world’s informal economies. The awardees of the Centennial Innovation Challenge were selected by an international panel of judges that included: Oscar Silva, Aleka Dondo, Ai-Jen Poo, Amolo  [...] Read More

StartupStories

First online video, then a successful pivot to social media, now Socio Square has trained its eye to become a SaaS company

SS
| 5 hours ago

Much before fans, followers, connections and likes became an important currency to measure a brand’s success in the online world, social media marketing agency Socio Square managed to get over a million fans for their online TV platform NyooTV in the year 2009. While NyooTV is still in beta stage, the founder and CEO of the agency Gaurav Mendiratta pivoted to focus on the social marketing skills of the agency and thus was born Socio Square

OpinionResourcesSocial Media

Indian Entrepreneurs who got their personal branding right and what worked for them

| 6 hours ago

More often than not, the founder is the face of the company when it is a startup and the whole bet on a startup making it big in most cases is put on the founder. And in this age of the internet, having a mighty presence online can help the company as a whole a lot. Everyone tells you that you need to have a ‘Social Quotient’ but building an online presence/following is something that comes naturally into a person.

EntrepreneurStories

Building the missing link among current crop of social media platforms: Scrollback

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| 21 hours ago

Facebook allows you to connect with friends. Twitter enables conversations with strangers. In this age of social media overdose, is there room for another community platform? Two IIT Kharagpur graduates, Gaurav Srivastava and Aravind Ravi Sulekha seem to have found a missing link in both these popular social media network sites and thus started, Scrollback, to [...] Read More