What awesome two days.
Happy (and thankful to Rice Communications and FOMA) to be a part of an event like Festival of Media, Asia. Stylish, full of great speaking sessions and good speakers- not just on the quality of speaking but the quality of content they had to talk about.
Apart from that, great questioning by presenters.
Two days- locked in the southern corner of Singapore- hijacking the W Sentosa hotels (they loved it, by the way- judging by their tweets in response to mine ) .

Full of action too: We made the …

Not a novelty anymore to know that the Internet has powered many revolutionary changes in the physical world.
But this infographic below does a pretty job of it- highlighting some of the major events impacted by communications on the world and the sheer speed and scale of information exchange.
When we started The Whiz Times, the idea, apart from giving a child and family friendly intelligent platform was also to include young people, kids in getting the right information through the right channels.
We have seen many of these changes impacting families and …

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 …

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

In past life, I have been a salesperson. As a matter of fact, I still am one. Come to think of it, we all are, in a way.
More so those who have been around in the digital marketing industry (across its various disciplines).
In the founding years of Digital Marketing in Asia (1999-2006), if you had anything to do with digital marketing, you essentially had to sell hard. Everyone loved to listen, but few actually bought what you were selling. Specially ‘digital media’ was an abstract thought in the early days …

Some marketing initiatives from government aided institutions in Singapore

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

Putting a TVC on the web is not digital…it’s called putting a TVC on the web…

A quick peep into the first day at Spikes Asia in Singapore Day1- with loads of photos and some salient points

I enjoy reading thought provoking posts. More so considering those are few and far between on the internet.
Much of popular content on the web is around tutorials and ‘how- to’ type content. However, they are transient and have little commentary on deep think. And this is one reason I shy away from creating content around tutorials or platforms in particular.
And if one of the posts is from an influential bloggerati, it does elicit a lot of interest from users. As is the case with this post from Om Malik …

How (much) do clients pay their advertising agencies? An appropriate response could be “Through their noses”.
The key is how to market this stuff. Grain from the chaff. Men from the boys.