First (jetlagged) impressions: China is amazing! Shiny, new, modern, BIG. I''m in Beijing. It's 6:30 AM Monday morning here; 6:30 PM Sunday back in the U.S. Follow the China Blogging Tour!
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Jetlagged... so won't try to be witty. Just a huge thanks (xiè xiè) to Sabrina Dorr with Edelman Beijing for picking me up at the airport. A fun dinner tonight at the cool, crowded and noisy Jin Ding Xuan restaurant near the Lamah Temple.
Photo left to right: Bao Lei, director of corporate communications for Johnson & Johnson's Olympics Sponsorship; Sabrina (aka Sabs) with Edelman; yours truly and Sharon Zhang, also with J & J. Full disclosure: J & J is an Edelman client.
This was a purely social evening but we did discuss corporate blogging and how or why it could benefit a company like Johnson & Johnson, with multiple brands. (See video of…
I always point to Jonathan Schwartz, the pony-tailed 41-year-old CEO of Sun Microsystems, as the best example of a high-profile CEO blogger, or any CEO or senior executive blogger for that matter.
Why? He writes so well. He’s cogent, yet conversational. He’s gracious. He’s a creative thinker (note: there must be something about Wesleyan grads; my son is one too). He digs deep - and long - to tell us about everything from petabytes of data (storage -…
Riddle: they're a global phenomenon. But most of them are in English and in Roman characters. What are they?
Answer: You guessed it; domain names like www.debbieweil.com.
The U.S. has long been accused - rightly so - of digital colonialism. Interestingly, the technology for creating multilingual domains was created ten years ago. But it's never been put to the test.
This week ICANN decided to start experimenting with domain names written entirely in native script or characters. So instead of reaching the Google China blog by typing in www.googlechinablog.com you would type in: [Chinese text].[Chinese…
Gen Y (i.e. 20-somethings) live online. Well, you knew that. But watch this video, part of a study by IBM showing that TV watching is generally on the decline. Says one interviewee, "My entire life is on the Internet."
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