Attending The Festival of Media Asia 2013 in Singapore.
The Festival of Media Asia 2013 takes place from 3-5 March 2013.
I personally am quite stoked about the two days: 4th and 5th March. There seems to be a solid line-up of speakers and sessions.
Check out the speaker line up for yourself.
And the Festival agenda here
 
Earlier, I usually attended these events from a Media Agency (when I used to work with Media agencies) or from a Brand perspective, later (When I was working with Nokia). And now I am attending this having …

 
We recently engaged with the media (and blogging community) via an extremely innovative  manner. We probably did pique the interest of some awesome media folks with that approach. More on the approach in another post- though just wanted to let everyone know that The Whiz Times has been covered on various digital media platforms:
Prominent Industry leading Digital media/marketing publications:
http://marketing-interactive.com/news/36155
http://www.digitalmarket.asia/2012/10/kids-can-read-all-about-it-in-thewhiztimes-com/
http://www.campaignasia.com/Article/319886,global-online-news-and-edutainment-platform-for-kids-launches.aspx
And on a few blogs:
http://mhisham.org/2012/10/19/the-whiztimes-launches/
http://atomthought.com/2012/10/how-an-internet-start-up-is-marketing-itself-to-the-media/
These  are a few that we monitored, and hopefully, there will be a few more this week.
Next thing we will focus on – is building applications (we are …

V Ramani- the charismatic media personality from India is no more.
I found about this from Alok Kejriwal’s post on Facebook and his tribute- and then found out more through various news articles. Absolute shock. He was a little young to go.
Ramani was probably by far the most imposing personality I have met in my career. Tall, bald, with a deep voice and a completely no nonsense attitude.
He was an absolutely polarising personality – but the thing is- you could love him or hate him, but you could never ignore or …

MMA Forum Singapore 2012: Smarter Tomorrow
Off to MMA Forum today.
After a long time, hope to be in a conference that enables you to meet thought leaders in the digital space, specifically mobile marketing. (Shoutout and thanks to Rice Communications)
I will be posting some insights from 23rd April’s workshops and hopefully would be attending the next two days intermittently (loads of stuff going on- personally as well as professionally)
Meanwhile in case you are interested- catch an Overview of the MMA Forum Asia, Smarter Tomorrow 2012 by visiting this link.
And if …

A presentation to make people appreciate that all marketing disciplines need to work together; engagement led marketing thinking is the glue in integrated marketing; and the key steps in drafting an engagement led integrated marketing strategy.

Privileged to be chairing a day at the “Social Media World Forum” for 23rd September in Singapore.
Will write more about the experience- though for starters- here is my Introduction note for the day…

Me and Sean Rach from Prudential talk about digital media and marketing- starting with a mobile led marketing initiative.

Following up on my much earlier post on some practical uses of Augmented Reality for marketing, here is one on what it could look like in the future- have seen many around the same topic, but this one struck- and thought should share. If for nothing else, then for the pure eye candy and the ‘cool’ factor that marketers are mostly after.
The setting could be in your kitchen.
Enjoy.

Some marketing initiatives from government aided institutions in Singapore

We decided the winner of the Final cover layout design. And the winner is…

My conversation with Avinash Kaushik on some Twitter analytics points

My take on perhaps the most misunderstood and most quoted metric on the web- Google PageRank