6. 1 What
What you want people to believe vs. what they
believe
• What you want people to believe seems like a top-
down approach
• What they believe themselves is influenced by
sources and opinions beyond your story
You control nothing, anymore. All you can do is
participate. How is your participation?
7. 2 Who
Power of your story is restricted to how well you're
able to sell it
• Information cascades across groups, often with
other opinions added
• Who do you speak to, to sell your story?
Every reputation matters - your story's and of the
people who propagate your story
8. 3 When
No more 15 minutes of fame (Sorry Warhol!) - we're
looking at 100 hours of fame
• 15 minutes of fame worked when the gatekeepers
of mass media were in control
• Reputation is now measured across a much wider
spectrum of time
Living a reputation is your best bet vs. talking about
one
1. This is Forsythia, a flowering plant from the Olive family, named after the Scottish botanist, William Forsyth.2. Though Forsythia (suspensa) is considered one of the 50 fundamental herbs in Chinese herbology, there's not much record of it being a very popular medicinal plant, like Indian plants like Tulsi or trees like neem.3. Steven Soderberg’s Contagion (released in India in September 2011) features this rather non-descript plant as a cure for a mysteriously contagious disease and is shown as its name being spread as a possible cure by Jude Law, who plays a blogger! People start fighting over Forsythia supplies even though it is not ‘proven’ to be a cure.
But Forsythia is not an exception. Long before the internet became all-pervasive, in 1995, Lord Ganesha ‘started drinking milk’. The word spread…and faith won, by and large!
Let’s move from fiction and fantasy, into real life. You are in the market for a new hatchback. Your heart flutters when you see a Honda Jazz, when it passes you on the road.You ask, Trusted sources: friends, family, peers, colleaguesYou go for a test driveBut before all this, you make a mental shortlist, based on your needs and preferences. And then, you check online. Suddenly, you are making changes in your shortlist based on complete strangers’ opinions.