The Webchutney Blog

This is a heads up to all those nice people who love to waste their time on Facebook and Twitter and what-have-you. If you’ve ever aspired to work for this hallowed organization, here’s your chance.

We are looking for a bright young guy or girl, who can join us at Bombay as a Social Content Manager. Primary responsibilities will include in-house management of social communities for our digital marketing campaigns, an awful lot of which are likely to be social networks in their own right. Additional responsibilities will include working with the leadership within to hone our service offerings in the social space.

Notable character traits in the incumbent should include:

• Active on all major social platforms. Drop us a link to your Friendfeed Account so that we can see for ourselves.
• Ideally have six months of experience in a Social Media/PR Agency. If someone can vouch for you, nothing like it.
• Excellent writing skills. Show us your blogposts and things.
• A sound emotional quotient.
• An eye for usability. Must be able to think in terms of feature augmentation for the social web applications we create, and tell a good idea from a bad one.

Interested? Write to Meghana at meghana [dot] bhat [at] webchutney [dot] net with your resume and other stuff you want to show us, and you could find yourself with a gig at India’s number 1 digital agency.

Update
Subsequent to this blog entry, it was found that people were emailing all sorts of resumes to the above mentioned email address, which has made Meghana mighty pissed. Meghana is Associate Creative Director at Webchutney and is accepting resumes only for this position.

For everything else, the guy to spam is our Human Resources Manager, and he is available at samar [dot] abbas [at] webchutney [dot] net.

Update 2
The bloke has already been hired. Thanks for the enthusiasm folks.

When you live in a billion-strong nation, that, sanitation is going to be a problem is a no-brainer. Quite possibly, we even have a Ministry for Health and Sanitation. Or, if we don’t I assure you that its in the making.

They say part symbolizes whole, and whole symbolizes part. This couldn’t be more true in the case of Webchutney, your friendly neighborhood Number 1 Digital Agency. For we too face the sanitation problem. Well, at least the male junta here (And if you are one of the sorts who needs to pee too often, you may bear that in mind in case you are thinking of joining us).

To elaborate, there are a grand total of 3 restrooms at the Webchutney offices in Mumbai:

1. 5th floor, Clean but women only (at least until 9 p.m.)
2. 2nd floor, Clean, unisex.
3. 4.5th floor, Dirty, stinky and reserved for male use.

Now, given that all the cool population on the 5th floor is over 90% male, the dirty, stinky restroom between the 4th and 5th floors is always in high demand. For example, I could wager that its occupied right now as you are reading this. We just love it too much.

So what happens when some brave lad from Technology or Creative wishes to opt for instant weight loss and finds that paradise is occupied? There are, of course, two choices:

1. Wait a while, and come back
2. Gun for the unisex loo on the 2nd floor, and hope that its empty

This, of course, is a moment of indecision. Urgency and nature of weight loss desired are both important factors. And you never know how much time the bloke who got there before you is going to take to evacuate. Knocking of course, is impolite. You don’t want to interrupt your colleague’s hard fought moment of nirvana.

This issue has already caused enough heart burn, not to mention reduced work efficiency.

Enter Nishi Kant, our Creative Messiah. Like the rest of us, Nishi too hates moments of indecision. And while nothing can still be done about the dirt and the stinkiness, (yes, we have one of those ‘maintenance chart’ thingies inside but its largely for decorative purposes) Nishi did come up with a creative solution for tackling indecision:

The Illuminated Restroom Occupancy Notifier

The IRON is a simple device which consists of three light bulbs, red, yellow and green on the outside of the john, with matching switches on the inside. The method of operation is simple: after you are in the can, switch on the red or yellow lights depending on the nature of your business; red for long ones, yellow for short. While exiting, always switch to the green light.

Thus, your colleagues can know from afar what to expect, without the effort of actually having to climb down the stairs and push against the door. The IRON is a beacon of hope and the information it transmits is very valuable when it comes to making the choice.

As a matter of fact, information is valuable when making any choice. Heck, this is an information economy. And Nishi is at the forefront.

All hail the messiah!

we were at the goafest and had plans to live blog, tweet etc. but like every time, an hour into the journey, the logistics of it became logis(hics!) and we forgot all about it. we do have the story captured in some text and some video.

so from today we will start a series of posts, that pretend we as if we were blogging live. its our blog you see.

Dudes,

Posting a snip and a link to our work for Gillette, arguably the best piece of work conceptualized and produced by us! Lots of flash vlash and rocket science scripting and all that. From the Office in Andheri West, Mumbai!

When I was first informed about this (at a concept stage a month back), my feedback was:
- It would take a pretty cool client to approve it. So I would be mighty impressed if we can make the client bite.
- It would take a very very skillful execution to make it happen.

Looks like its Tick and then another Tick.

The outcome is here! We are surely proud of this stuff! Wish us luck to raise the bar further.

On another note, I am sure, our ex-colleague Saurabh Mathur who is now a Flash Engineer at Slideshare would be proud of us! He was one of the first action scripting evangelists in Webchutney…

Anyway, feedback is surely welcome!

Ps: just in case you start thinking that this is now the webchutney mumbai blog, will report live from the world headquarters in Delhi very soon.

A client services person (identity withheld intentionally) at Mumbai just forwarded me this picture to go up on the blog.

The person didnt tell me the actual ‘reason’ to post it, so i guess i will just introduce the subject of this picture. Meet Kedar Nimkar, star creative guy (the dude who did the new Kingfisher Airlines UX recently), casual photographer and with great taste in women is featured below next to his fancy workstation.

(Kedar – When you see this, dont be pissed and do forward me the wallpaper mate!)

On a side note, Just as i write this, i am thinking, maybe we will see some feminist sort of reactions from people who may read the blog (not sure how many still are, the urchin acct has been acting up). But i am no mood to think of any of that right now. I will take my chances.

i do remember reading that its possible that one “one almost can’t be a feminist without being anti pornography. Oh, and that lesbians who don’t hate porn probably aren’t lesbians.”

(Disclaimer – reminding everyone – I didnt say that, but surely found it hilarious…)

Seriously.

And while we are on the subject, have you seen the Ali G video on feminism. Buwahahahahahaha!

found some old pictures of the webchutney mumbai office. some of these are worth republishing with some thoughts.