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Can competitive brands join ventures or participate in social media?

It’s proven online that joint venture is the way to go.  We are seeing competitive websites advertising one another’s websites. Websites are referring sales to their competitors.  Websites are giving more value to their visitors by introducing them with alternative websites.  Websites can even review their competitors’ products.  But how about the brands out there? more »

7 Ways To Improve Your Socializing Skills In Twitter

I have been on twitter for a while.  I have learnt things about twitter along the way.  And I think it is time for me to talk about them on my own blog.  It has been a fun time for me as I got to know great friends on twitter! I have friends who are more »

Companies are exploring social media

Social media is the new ball game for big companies as this is definitely the next big thing that will have huge exposure.  But will the companies ever know the meaning behind social media? One-way or Two-way communication? This word “media” has always been used as a one-way communication where anybody who has deep pockets more »

Big Corporates Should Start Employing Social Media Managers

Social Media is here to stay.  We have a lot of people now in the social media.  In my opinion, the big players such as Facebook and Twitter have created what social media is today.  But to get a big corporation to participate in social media, it is about building a new team or even more »

How can MNC participate in social media?

An online friend of mine from Twitter, Facebook and blog by the name of guruvan (Rob Nelson) commented that it is not advisable to use an agency to help a multinational company with their social media campaign. It’s quite true actually.  Just think about it.  When an agency helps you to build a campaign that works, more »

Is Social Media making corporate websites irrelevant?

Gone are the old days when corporate websites must have their own dot com domain in order to start their journey as an online brand.  Many people have given up the idea of becoming a one-stop portal like what our local big players are trying to do with InSing and Mocca.  These two websites remind more »

It’s been a while since I had my networking session

Thanks KC for holding this networking session with a group of Internet entrepreneurs.  KC has invited me to speak at his networking session,and I felt really privileged to do so after hiding behind as an online evangelist for 2 years.  I know I have been telling my story in my blog when I first started more »

Must Your Big Brand Be So Corporate In the Online World?

When a big company hears about starting a blog, the employees start to panic.  They don’t want to commit themselves  into this.  They don’t know what they can talk about on a regular basis.  They are just looking forward to work comfortably in the company, and to “retire” for the rest of their lives. They more »

How do you look for your long lost friends?

I have a friend aged 50 something, who looks for her long lost friend through classified advertisements in our local newspaper.  When she told me this, I told her that you probably wouldn’t be able to find me if you post it over there! But… You can find me on my Facebook easily!  If not, more »

Writing a landing page for every social media

I’ve recently come across some blogs which personalize one of their posts as the landing pages for the various social media (such as Twitter, FaceBook, Forums, Blogs and SocialBookmarking sites) that they are in.  It is interesting to note that this is more welcoming to the visitors as it is optimized for them to be more »