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The single most important tip for getting more followers, friends or connections

17 March 2010 · View Comments

If you’re using social media to grow your network by friending and following people you don’t know in person, first impressions are even more important because I have nothing else to judge you on. Let’s look at how we give off these first impressions through social media, and how to gain more friends and followers by making a good first impression.

Tagged as: networking, social media, twitter

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Exclusive interview: Idham Nawawi on how P1 engages customers with social media

11 February 2010 · View Comments

While many Malaysian companies are just beginning to understand social media, Packet One Networks (P1), is a company that has been in the forefront of integrating social media into all levels of their organisation. P1 not only uses social media in their marketing efforts, but in their customer service operations too. COO Idham Nawawi told me in this interview how they deliberately fostered the adoption of social media within P1

Tagged as: customer advocacy, Idham Nawawi, P1, social media

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Social Media Predictions for Brands in Malaysia

8 February 2010 · View Comments

My friends from P1, AirAsia, DiGi, Edelman, Text100, McCann Erickson share their thoughts and insights on what’s in store for brands in Social Media this coming year

Tagged as: brands, Malaysia, social media, trends

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An introduction to Social Media Monitoring by JamiQ

1 February 2010 · View Comments

The sheer number of social media sites and services make keeping up with mentions of your brand a real challenge. Fortunately there are a number of social media monitoring services that have emerged to solve that problem. Benjamin Koe, co-founder of JamiQ provides a quick overview of social media monitoring and how to make use [...]

Tagged as: JamiQ, social media, social media monitoring

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Online Trends For 2010 That Will Change Marketing In Malaysia

14 January 2010 · View Comments

2009 was a watershed year for paradigm-changing online technologies. Technologies like Facebook and Twitter not only became household names last year, but are on track to change business and marketing as we charge on into 2010.
As a marketer and digital native who’s practically grown up on the web, here are some personal observations of mine [...]

Tagged as: location based services, real time, social media, trends

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Social Media Impact on Business and Marketing

7 November 2009 · View Comments

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If you are running a business, you know that a big portion of your time is spent marketing and promoting your business. The internet is changing all of that and that is what my talk will address today. Specifically I will cover the impact of online marketing–especially social media–on business.

Tagged as: community, presentation, social media, social media marketing

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Social Media Club Kuala Lumpur Chapter

18 September 2009 · View Comments

The Social Media Club, Kuala Lumpur Chapter (SMCkl) held it’s inaugural meeting last night. I was proud not just to attend but also to be a founding member and a part of the committee of volunteers. There have been a few blog posts reporting on the event last night, so I wanted to do something [...]

Tagged as: Coaching, SMCkl, social media

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Don’t trash your competitors, it’s like hitting below the belt

18 August 2009 · View Comments

This is a true story of something that happened to me this past few weeks. I don’t make it a practice to talk about myself on this blog, but I thought that this story may be relevant to other marketers and may give you something to think about before launching your own campaigns.
Last month I [...]

Tagged as: ethics, reputation management, social media

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Social Media is the world’s biggest fad… for marketers

6 July 2009 · View Comments

This post may seem a bit ironic coming from someone who provides social media seminars and training but there seems to be an almost unhealthy fascination with social media among marketers at the moment. In the end, we’ll all realise that “social media” will become just “regular ol’ media”.
Social Media is not new
Marketers have jumped [...]

Tagged as: opinion, social media

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Corporate blogging breakdown: What is it and why does my organisation need it?

11 February 2008 · View Comments

If your organisation is not blogging, you’re losing out on major benefits that corporate blogging can bring.
Corporate blogging is another communications and marketing channel. However, unlike a press release, advertisement in a magazine or a listing in the Yellow Pages, corporate blogs are two-way communications. Here are 5 ways how a corporate blog can benefit [...]

Tagged as: beginners guide, blogging, social media

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