The Future of Social Media Relevance – Mobile, Niche, Meaning?
A friend of mine recently joined Facebook. He’s tech savvy, but had always resisted being part of the 900 million people around the world who are already on Facebook. He found the mobile applications...
View ArticleCase Study: Banks and Social Media
On social media platforms, banks don't necessarily need to be the boring, stuffy old farts we think they might be. There are some financial institutions who are stepping up on their game on their...
View ArticleHumanise or Vaporise! Focus on Social Content & Being Meaningful
We're often too platform centric when we get excited about the possibilities social media presents to brands and marketers. Perhaps it's time to take a step back and look at the big picture- that...
View ArticleA Chat with Alfonso Rodes, CEO of Havas Media
Alfonso Rodes, the CEO of Havas Media and Deputy CEO of Havas, was in Singapore recently as part of some of his pit stops around Asia-Pacific. In this interview, I had the pleasure of picking his...
View ArticleVideo Interview with Microsoft Advertising Asia: Spikes Asia 2012
Microsoft Advertising Asia extended a VIP pass to me recently to attend Spikes Asia 2012, Asia's creative advertising festival. It was a privilege for me to be presented with the opportunity to attend...
View ArticleFeatured on SlideShare: The Future of Social is Mobility
I was in Manila recently, and this is one of the presentations I gave recently to some of Havas Media Ortega's key clients, including Unilever, Globe Telecom, and Unilab, the largest pharmaceutical...
View ArticleAdobo Magazine Interview: Neuroscience & Building Consumer Trust
During this trip, I had the pleasure of getting acquainted with Angel Guererro, the Editor in Chief of Adobo Magazine and was interviewed for both a print article and a video interview on my thoughts...
View ArticleSocial Media Lessons from Chinese Etymology
“社会化媒体” is the mandarin translation of Social Media, with the literal meanings of “社 会” being “society” and “媒体” as “media”. But there’s an extra character- “化” , which is attached to “社会”, or society....
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Just In Time For Finovate: Adding More Fun (And More Focus) To Fintech...
How can we add more fun to fintech applications? …or at least a bit more focus? As you look above at the dominant themes of applications at this week’s Finovate in New York – aka the Disneyland of...
View ArticleAlternative lending landscape (for dummies…)
I think this is a good opportunity to talk about something concrete we are actively looking at, explained in a way that (I hope) will catch the attention of everyone (including my mum, who I can see...
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