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It’s a Whole Different Recipe

In Australia they lined up to participate – filling in details about themselves, habits, loved ones… and all for the chance to be on the latest reality TV show. What’s in it – a chance to star, to perform – be famous for just a few weeks and they were lined up!
Here it  was so [...]

Making a point via Facebook

There is much talk about how evolving technology and the internet have pretty much changed the way many people communicate with one another these days. While the internet has definitely helped speed up the communication process and also the time to reply, it has also made communication less personal, with increasingly less face-to-face interaction.
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5 Things You Should Know About Social Media

This is the first part of my series of 5’s on social media.
We all have had problems trying to define social media. I hope this helps you understand social media better.

Misunderstanding Social Media

Social media marketers such as myself face an uphill task explaining social media to local businesses and SMEs and convincing them that a portion of their marketing budget should be set aside for social media.

Public Relations?

The term “public relations” is often misunderstood and often mistaken to purely revolve around media relations. But in actual fact, the PR profession spans a wide range of activities.

Chinese New Year – the season of relationships

Since being a kid, I’ve always looked forward to this day for it means that everyone is returning to our village with firecrackers, fireworks and sparklers all in abundance. (For a child growing up in a city where chewing gum is a sin, that’s certainly a feat!)

A sorry Tiger that had too much Wood!

It is all too easy to come up with excuses and blame it on a problem such as a sex addiction, but in Tigers case, i feel it is a genuine problem. Of course no one can be sure, but if you look at his affairs, all of the women share striking similarities. They are all tall, blonde and beautiful! So the first step he took was to seek professional help and therapy. It did not seem like he was giving an excuse but on the contrary, he displayed much courage in admitting that he had a problem. Hopefully, this Tiger keeps his wood to himself from now on.

No such thing as Bad Publicity?

This is because ‘bad’ publicity is still publicity nonetheless and it gets your name or brand out to the masses. But is this true?

Social Media… The Great Debate…

We are all familiar with the regular forms of media such as TV, Radio and Print. What is social media and how useful is it in the Information Age? According to Wikipedia…

Walking the talk or talking a good talk?

The recent US presidential elections put things into a new perspective for a lot of us communicators around the world. This was the definitive moment folks, when the changing face of the new communications showed its face. If you blinked at the precise moment you’d have missed it.

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