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Social Media’s Silent Giants: Naspers and DST
Naspers and DST are not household names, but they have long fascinated me for their huge level of ownership and influence over Social Media globally. If the global evolution of Social Media interests ...
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Speech in Tokyo at Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan
In Tokyo for a week and speaking at the FCC of Japan on Monday. Please join! Details below and on the FCCJ website. Planning to discuss the below topic, but make it highly interactive, based on what p...
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Infographic of Social Media Equivalents in China
Our China Social Media team put together this infographic to explain some of China's Social Media equivalents. Any major categories or companies missing? Put your suggestions below in comments....
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In China: $184 for a Virtual Dragon
In China, if you spend US$184 on your credit card you can now get a virtual dragon. For US$147, you get a virtual horse. In what may be the first of its kind, a social network has linked up with a ban...
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Foursquare for Business: A Strategic Framework
This slide was created for our training about how to use Foursquare for Business, done in partnership with The Wall Street Journal and GoToWebinar....
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Ogilvy On: Foursquare for Business (The Slides)
OGILVY ON: HOW TO USE FOURSQUARE FOR BUSINESS View more presentations from 360 Digital Influence, Ogilvy PR Worldwide. Here are the slides from the latest presentation by our team at Ogilvy, pres...
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Google Publishes Censorship Status in China
Google now shows which Google services are blocked in China. Updated daily, status is assessed by geographically diverse servers that are used to monitor connection capability. As mentioned in another...
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WoZai: China Twitter Clone, Built 1 Celebrity At A Time
Twitter clones are all the rage these days in China, but operating a Social Media platform can be tough in the country that blocks Twitter along with YouTube, Facebook, Slideshare and others. David L...
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Foursquare China Clone: Jie Pang
Like many other foreign Social Media platforms, Foursquare is blocked in China. (Check out Herdict to see what is blocked.)The result is that people visiting with a non-China phone, such as me, can ea...
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Social Media: Chinese Love To Engage
OGILVYONE CONNECTED View more presentations from Ogilvy China. My colleagues in OgilvyOne China recently released OgilvyOne Connected, a report that may surprise those not aware of the incredible...
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How To: Use Foursquare for Business
OGILVY ON: HOW TO USE FOURSQUARE FOR BUSINESS View more presentations from 360 Digital Influence, Ogilvy PR Worldwide. Here are the slides from the latest presentation by our team at Ogilvy, pres...
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iPhone4 Launch Schedule for Asia-Pacific
Can't stand the wait? Here's a guide for the iPhone rollout for much of the Asia-Pacific region. Sorry Laos, no plans for a launch yet! Click on the "more" link below to get maps showing the operators...
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Jobs: South China Morning Post Editorial Jobs
Two jobs going at Hong Kong's South China Morning Post: MAGAZINES EDITOR (REF: CCL-EDT-ME) The South China Morning Post is looking for a Magazines Editor with a very deep store of knowledge across a r...
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Job: Editor of Australian Wine Publication
_Nice work if you can get it! Winetitles is the leading publisher to the wine industry and is seeking an experienced and dedicated journalist for Australian and New Zealand Grapegrower and Winemaker, ...
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China: Rules for Social Media Marketing
_WARNING: This posting will likely interest only people working within Social Media in China. The China International Public Relations Association produced a set of rules and recommendations that has ...
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Asia Social Media Stats: The Video!
This video on Social Media in APAC was created for a recent internal meeting of our regional Digital Influence team. Below is a transcript of the statistics. Enjoy! Asia is a diverse continen...
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Dear Associated Press: Does this blog post break the law?
The Associated Press content charging machine is up and running. To excerpt the words "financial terms were not disclosed" from an article about about Amazon buying Woot, the AP wants me (or any blogg...
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Job: Asia-based Lloyd’s List Shipping Reporter
News of that rare beast...a job in journalism! The ad below is self-explanatory, so if you know anyone with a burning desire to write about Asia's shipping industry please encourage them to apply. Com...
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How do Foreign Correspondents use Social Media?
Are you a Foreign Correspondent covering China? Vincent Ni needs your help, details below. I will post the research outcome as soon as Vincent finishes the work. Go on, help him out!! This is a not-fo...
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Twitter’s Ascension in Japan
One of Asia's great rapid growth stories in Social Media over recent months has been the Twitter's ascension in Japan. This graphic, from a presentation delivered last week by Nielsen, shows Twitter p...
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India’s Demographic Dividend: The Digital Impact
_India\'s "Demographic Dividend" is the current focus (and "Most Read" article) of Booz & Co's Strategy + Business magazine.The article is a recap of a panel discussion in which I took part a few mont...
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Face-To-Face Beats Social Media
This week a large portion of our Asia-Pacific Social Media team came to Hong Kong for a summit gathering. It has been exciting to see the progress the markets have made over the last year and get a cl...
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Gadget Heaven in Hong Kong
Wanchai Computer Centre is Hong Kong's gadget heaven. Not only do you get a wide range of amazing gadgets, but they are cheap, due to Hong Kong's tax-free status. Similar in spirit to Tokyo's Akihabar...
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Job: Shanghai Correspondent Seeks News Assistant
Correspondent in Shanghai seeks full-time news assistant. Correspondent working for a range of foreign media, including the UK Daily Mail, the Guardian, Wallpaper and Danwei seeks a full-time news ass...
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Abhisit: Thailand is Coming Back
Extracts from a press briefing given last week by Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva at the World Economic Forum's East Asia Summit. Apologies for the low quality, I shot it with my mobile phone. I...
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Social Media Affects Awareness and Purchasing in China
The consultancy Roland Berger and CIC have put together an interesting report on how Social Media affects Chinese consumers.They looked at the impact on Chinese consumers of information gathered about...
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How big is Social Media? (A video interview)
While in Sydney last week to chair the Web 3.0 conference, Sam North in the Ogilvy office cornered me for a "Red Chair" interview about the future of Social Media. We spoke about the evolution of Soci...
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Coke on Wednesday, Red Bull on Weekends
Social media monitoring occasionally reveals interesting habits within society, such the increased number of conversations on Wednesday by people saying how they need energy, so will drink a Coke. Hal...
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Trusting Google and Facebook with Privacy
While in Australia last week, I spoke with Phil Dobbie from the Twisted Wire blog on ZDNet.com.au about privacy in the era of Google and Facebook. Here's is the podcast Phil produced from our discussi...
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Vietnam Internet: More Social, Mobile and Private
In Vietnam for a few days at the World Economic Forum's East Asia Summit and picked up a few statistics from a Yahoo/TNS study of the Internet usage in Vietnam.In sum, Vietnam's Internet is increasing...
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Ogilvy on: Blogging for Business
@bdgiesen and I had great fun today presenting this deck from Ogilvy's Sydney office. Incredible live interaction online with 107 Tweets reaching an audience more than 63,000 total followers. Join our...
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Nivio: A Cloud Computer for US$75
With Cloud computing on everyone's lips in Taiwan, Computex, Sachin Duggal of Nivio introduces his Nivio Cloud PC – a computer hosted in the cloud. He aims to change the economics of computers by re...
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Bahasa Indonesia: Now Facebook’s 5th largest language
Bahasa Indonesian is now the 5th largest language on Facebook. Tiny compared to English and Spanish, but the only Asia-Pacific country to make the top 10, according to Inside Facebook....
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Job: Copy Editor for Interfax Shanghai
Interfax China, a Russian-owned industry-specific international news and information agency, is looking for a native English-speaking copyeditor with at least one year of solid editing experience to w...
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WSJ Webinar: Blogging for Business
Warning: This is a work-related posting!More than just a consumer obsession, Twitter, Blogs, Facebook and other forms of Social Media are radically changing the way businesses operate across the Asia-...
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David Kirkpatrick: The Facebook Effect
I recently met up with David Kirkpatrick to discuss his upcoming book on Facebook. In the below video, he identified three things you might not know about Facebook: 1- Identity. Facebook doesn’t wan...
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Ogilvy Social Media job in Malaysia
We are hiring right now in Malaysia. Great team, fun job! Contact information to apply below. Extra points if you contact us by Twitter!DIGITAL ANALYST: JOIN THE TEAM THAT APPLIES SOCIAL MEDIA TO BUSI...
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Startup Digest Launches in Shanghai
If you are in Shanghai next week, Kai Lukoff of Bloggerinsight and Qi Jia Yue of Trilogy Ventures and are launching [Startup Digest] Shanghai this coming Monday. Startup Digest is a weekly email of th...
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China: Internet kills TV, papers and radio
Synovate released an interesting study that shows how much time Chinese youth spend on the Internet vs TV vs newspapers. Not surprisingly TV, Internet and Mobile dominate.The Internet beats wins in al...
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China: More time on Internet than the USA
An interesting report by BCG on China's Internet, China's Digital Generations, shows once again the extremely high level of Internet usage by Chinese citizens. What are people in China doing for 2.7 h...
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Mobile Social Networks in Japan
An interesting look at Social Media use on mobile phones in Japan by Alexei Poliakov, with some comments below courtesy of Random Wire. JAPAN MOBILE SNS STUDY 2010 View more presentations from Al...
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FCC Charity Ball: Creedence Clearwater Revisited
Tickets are now going on sale for the 9th annual Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents' Club Charity Ball, taking place on October 9. (Disclosure: I am a co-chair of this event that raises money for the ch...
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Job: Sun, Surf and Social Media, with our team in Sydney
Ogilvy's Social Media team, 360 Digital Influence, is looking for a Digital Strategist for our growing Sydney office.The Digital Strategist is expert at evaluating a client situation and developing a ...
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Job: Hong Kong-based reporter-editor for IHT
GREAT HONG KONG-BASED JOURNALISM JOB:The International Herald Tribune is looking for an experienced reporter/editor for its Continuous News Desk, which feeds the web and print editions of the IHT and ...
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Demographics of China’s Wealthy
Interesting research report from McKinsey & Company about the wealthy consumers of China. In addition to concluding that 80 percent of China's wealthy are below the age of 45 - think about that for a ...
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Evolution of Asia’s Luxury Obsession
The role of luxury goods in Asian societies is a fascinating topic. Among those from whom I have learned most about the subject are Asian luxury specialist Radha Chadha and co-author of the book The C...
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Sustainable Models for News Media
Attending Hong Kong University's International Media Conference today. Below are some snippets from a panel I took part in on the sustainable models for journalism. (We did not find the answer). Impre...
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Why do I blog?
Over time, this blog has built up traffic, but revenues are still almost zero. So why blog? (Hint: The final reason and note from Candy Chan is what prompted this posting.) 1- REVENUE: I do make some ...
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Facebook threatens Orkut in India
India has long been an Orkut holdout for Social Media dominance. Lately, however, Orkut's lead is not looking so certain. Please consider the following three graphs.CONCLUSION: From below data, we can...
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Job: China correspondent, IDG News Service
IDG's daily, international news service seeks an experienced, high-energy journalist to cover information technology in China, ideally from Beijing. Wide-ranging responsibilities include developing en...
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What is Change? Crisis, says the journalist
My friend Jennifer Corriero of TakingITGlobal asked for a quick contribution for an exhibit she is putting together about change and how it happens. She asked me to write about how journalists see cri...
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US Embassy Jakarta: More Facebook fans than all US Embassies combined
The US Embassy in Jakarta built a fanbase on Facebook larger than the US State Department and LARGER THAN ALL US EMBASSIES COMBINED, according to the man behind the site. The effort has been driven by...
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Ai Weiwei on the Power of Social Media in China
Had a very interesting encounter with high-profile artist and social media star Ai Weiwei. As you can see from this discussion, he is highly passionate about Social Media....
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China’s gaming sub-cultures
At a recent tweet up in Shanghai, I met up with PhD candidate Marcella Szablewicz who is currently doing research into the gaming communities in China. Based out of Shanghai, she is doing qua...
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Social Media in Asia Webinar, The Slides
Social Media Today recently invited me to present on the state of Social Media in Asia. Below are the slides that I presented along with those from fellow presenter Peter Auditore of SAP. Their blog l...
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Social Networking Habits Across Asia-Pacific
ComScore today announced some interesting new statistics about Social Networking Habits across Asia-Pacific. ComScore's methodology does not include visits from public access computers such as Interne...
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Shanghai Tweetup: Who was there?
Here's some of those who attended the third of the Shanghai Tweetups, which took place this Wednesday evening. Thanks very much to everyone who joined! MARCELLA SZABLEWICZ: She's a PhD Candidate in Co...
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Shanghai-based Social Media Experts
Tonight we will host the third Shanghai Tweet up. Twitter is banned in China, but within the last 15 hours more than 20 people have said they will attend. (I contacted former attendees by emai...
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