Jul 1, 2009
I recently answered a few questions about Social Media monitoring in Asia for Arun Sudhaman of Media magazine. Arun’s article was an excellent synthesis of many views (I cannot find the link!). Here are my views: Which are the key social media tracking tools (paid and unpaid) that you use, and why? How do they
May 23, 2009
Just came across these US Air Force guidelines for blogger engagement via a number of sources (though I could not find it on an official USAF site). It has such a wonderfully military approach and even terminology: Rager, Troll, Misguided, Unhappy Customer. For a military organization, the USAF is quite advanced with their: USAF blog
May 3, 2009
A highly reputable medical journal, The Lancet, published a study of a disease outbreak in the online role-playing game World of Warcraft to understand outbreak behavior. This is particularly interesting in light of the H1N1 quarantining of 200+ people in a hotel not far from my home in Hong Kong. A nasty disease outbreak in
Apr 8, 2009
Matt has one of the coolest URL’s around: ma.tt, and for that matter, one of the coolest website’s around. It makes sense, he is the founding developer of WordPress and Automattic, the business behind it. Matt has lived a classic Silicon Valley story: Starting by programming on a computer in his mother’s kitchen just six
Mar 31, 2009
Aquabumps.com is an excellent example of what would otherwise be a small and local business that now has a global audience. All this based on a weather report and thanks to the Internet. Rebecca Simpson – a colleague who is one of the thousands of Aussie expats tuning in daily – explains: The founder, Uge
Mar 21, 2009
Rob Grimshaw has been at the Financial Times since 2000, recently moving to the position of Managing Director of Ft.com. On nma.co.uk, Grimshaw describes running an online publishing business as “relatively simple”. “I have three tasks,” he says. “I have to acquire traffic, engage users once they’re on the site, and make money from them.”
Mar 21, 2009
Erik Wachtmeister holds the rank of a Swedish count, so it should be no wonder that he founded exclusive social networking site ASmallWorld. After all, aristocrats can’t be seen using Facebook. His Linked In profile gives an excellent summary of his reasons for starting his own network. The idea itself came to Wachtmeister during a
Mar 21, 2009
When I heard Matt Mullenweg would be passing through Hong Kong, I immediately urged him to speak to a broader audience than the Internet crowd. The result is this American Chamber of Commerce luncheon that I will moderate on April 7. In case you have never heard of Matt, he was recently named alongside Steve
Mar 19, 2009
I recently hosted a small lunch in Hong Kong for Erik Wachtmeister, co-founder and chairman of ASmallWorld, with some of Ogilvy’s highest profile luxury clients. ASmallWorld is an invitation-only social network intended for the world’s wealthy and well-connected that I first wrote about in 2005 and – by chance – celebrated its 6th anniversary on
Mar 8, 2009
Hong Kong’s resident Web 2.0 expert through his influential English-language blog 852signal, Angus Lau travels extensively around China He has also written articles for the China Web Review and Read/Write Web. Like all avid social media enthusiasts, he maintains an active Twitter feed – recently telling his followers that he “Just had some Hanu beef,
Mar 8, 2009
Some of Benjamin Joffe’s specialties are Asian innovation, stereotype deconstruction and techno-anthropology, says his Linked In profile. It’s little wonder then that he’s now at the forefront of social media applications in China and beyond. Joffe is founder and CEO of plus8star – a cross-cultural innovation consulting company and is also a partner at the
Mar 8, 2009
Travis Katz is the Senior VP and Managing Director of International at Myspace/Fox Interactive media. From his base in the North of London he manages a staff of over 450 world wide. As his Myspace profile details – Travis has an ‘athletic’ body type, listens to The Smiths and likes the film Waiting for Guffman.
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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the
International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...
