Back from India after a week there with minimal internet access. Will be posting more on my trip there, which included my attendance of the Harvard College Asian Business Forum with Ming Yeow (SV6) and touring around Mumbai and Goa. You can read the posts about my trip here.

But thats not the point I am writing this. I believe in the power of blogs and you should too, especially if you are working in PR or marketing. Customers like more transparency and a personal touch from companies they pay their hard earned wages to. And since so many of us spend much time on the internet today compared to other media, blogs are key to cutting through the media noise and offering that connection with customers, online.

If you have a blog, SHARE IT. We have a dearth of communication within the community, but gathering the list of bloggers together will help us understand each other better.

Here’s a list of ugly scenarios blogs (and better online comms through Linkedin, Plaxo etc) can help to avoid:

  1. You won’t share the lift with that handsome/ pretty stranger for 3 months in your office building without realizing he/ she’s actually 2 batches junior than you in NOC.
  2. No more lonely overseas trips to exotic new cities and drinking alone at night after work in say, Mumbai, Kiev or Athens when you know 2 other alumni are in the same city feeling the same way too.
  3. Dealing with obnoxious young punks at work when NOC hires would be much better.. ;)
  4. i ran out of ideas, surely you can do better? ;)

If you:

  • have a blog,
  • know someone else who has a blog
  • already has an existing collection of NOC bloggers

Share it here, drop a comment or email to noc_alumni@yahoo.com . We will add it to the “Blogroll” section on the sidebar.

Do it if you think we are all family.. :)