Is there a rule of the universe that, when you are doing a presentation on a tech-related subject and/or to a group with lots of techies present, the technology will let you down, wholly or in part? Last night’s presentation to the Web Wednesday event in Guangzhou, via Skype video, on social media and advertising,…
I’m speaking tomorrow night at the Web Wednesday mixer in Guangzhou, China. As I’ll be several thousand miles/kilometres from Guangzhou, my presence will be virtual. No drinks for me. The Web Wednesday events, informal monthly gatherings of interested digerati, were started in Hong Kong by Internet entrepreneur and Sinologist Napoleon Biggs, who has been 20…
BlogWorld Expo Keynote by Richard Jalichandra Like some others, over the past year or two I’ve been less than impressed by Technorati’s performance. So I was frankly not overwhelmed with anticipation of the keynote address by Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra, at last weekend’s BlogWorld and New Media Expo in Las Vegas. In the event, I…
In my previous post in this series on setting up a community site, I summarized the concept of the site I am working on, using the WordFrame platform, as being focused on social media in the geo-political region which includes China, South East Asia and Australasia. The name – Social Media East. This post is…
This is the first post in my Setting Up a Community Site series, using the WordFrame platform but applying general principles in the process, so the series will hopefully be of interest to a wider group than just those of us using WordFrame. As well as touching on those general principles, I will also be…
Having read some notices by various highly credentialed people about a new book to be launched on July 7, Think Like Chinese, by HANG Haihua and Geoff Baker, I know this is a book I must have and preferably before I go on my next trip to China in mid July. I’m especially interested in…