I’ve had some thoughts rattling around in my head recently, thinking about how the cultural subtleties of Asia Pacific impact the ability for people to be successful in social media. It started when I asked some leading digital media folks who their favourite business bloggers were in AP, apart from me of course :). Surprisingly […]
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A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of seeing my first article published on Content Marketing Institute. Here is a link to the original article “5 Tips for Finding Your Perfect B2B Content Partner.” I put this together because things are changing so rapidly in regards to content becoming a priority, that perhaps
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SAJE’s first customer when we launched back in 2006 was Alvin Chan. At that time he was Regional Marketing Manager, Public Sector, Technology Solutions Group, Asia Pacific & Japan for Hewlett-Packard. After HP, Alvin moved to a senior marketing role with Thomson Reuters, and is currently taking a short hiatus while he works out what’s next
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I recently wrote a blog on blogging – I Know I Should be Blogging But, definitely very topical as a strategic social tool in Asia right now. It also seemed to attract a lot of interest, including an acknowledgement on Michael Brenners’ B2B Marketing Insider Blog “The Top 5 Reasons People Don’t do Social,” which
How much of ‘corporate social media’ amounts to ‘wasting time on the company’s dime?’ The big difficulty for many managers is in demonstrating a positive ROI (‘Return on Involvement’) from their social media projects – a collection of sundry activities loosely billed by the now ubiquitous social media consultants as “connecting, communicating and collaborating.” I
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Imagine you live in a city where residents must choose between electricity or public sanitation. Which would you vote for? Not so easy, is it? (Mine would be for working sanitation.) Since starting my first blog over four years ago, I’m finding that b2b blogs present a similar dilemma. For example, should I plumb my
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Burson Marsteller recently released the “Asia Pacific Corporate Social Media Study 2011, How Asian Companies are Engaging Stakeholders Online” and here’s the shorter presentation. There’s some interesting information here, including South Korea is the most active, with Malaysia, China and Thailand next. Micro-blogs and social networks are the most popular channels to engage. However Asian
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Damien Cummings is the Online & Social Media Director for the Consumer and SMB Division at Dell, based in Singapore. No stranger to the social media world, Damien is regularly seen speaking at conferences all over the region and is very highly regarded by the industry for his deep knowledge in this space. As there
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A couple of weeks ago, I interviewed John Kerr, director for Edelman Digital in APAC. In the interview, we briefly touched on Edelman’s definition of Social Business and the belief in this strategy as the way forward. It seems this concept of social business is ramping up, as you can see in this Fast Company story
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An argument has been doing the rounds in social media-land, and I haven’t been sure where I stand. The argument is what type of agency delivering a marketing discipline is the best partner for social media – and where do PR agencies fit into the debate, if at all? As an ex PR person, I
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