Wanted: A New Kind of Ad Agency Warrior
Readers know that I have spent quite some time thinking about how the Internet and online advertising will affect the whole overall advertising industry. A recent post on Ogilvy China Digital Watch...
View ArticleHas The Tipping Point Tipped?
Ever since its publication, The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell, has captured the imagination of marketers and PR people all over the world. Basically, the book argues that ideas are spread by...
View ArticleWhere China Falls Short
China’s economic growth over the past several years has excited many members of the international community, who see it as an alternative to the US’s and west’s leadership of the world order for the...
View ArticleThe PR Problem for Chinese Online Public Relations Firms
Several days ago, Sam Flemming of CIC, a Shanghai-based online reputation management company pointed me to a news article on Business Week called “Inside The War Against China’s Blogs”. The article...
View ArticleBehind The Scenes In China
Just a quick note about what I see happening behind the scenes in China. The administration of Hu Jintao has made a recent effort to push for transparency and accountability in China, especially...
View ArticleAmerican Astroturfing vs. Chinese Astroturfing
The definition of astroturfing, according to Wikipedia is: a neologism for formal public relations campaigns in politics and advertising which seek to create the impression of being spontaneous,...
View ArticleNews Galore!
Just in case you had any doubts that the world was going to hell in a handbasket, and that the inmates were running the asylum, you just might have had some of those doubts removed in the past week....
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The New Value Economy Arrives
What a difference a month makes! Just a little more than a month ago, China was basking in the afterglow of the Beijing Olympics, and the US still had an investment banking sector. Now, all China news...
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Book Review: No Ancient Wisdom, No Followers
This book, by James McGregor, paints an interesting picture of what the failure to reform the Chinese political and economic systems has done to China by 2012. The title sums it up clearly: No Ancient...
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