According to the Asian Development Bank the fall in the value of financial assets may have reached $50,000bn, with estimated losses in Asia (excluding Japan), of at $9,625bn. Two things are also equally certain: the export-based models of Asia will catch a serious flu, and the necessary restructuring to more internal market dynamics will take a lot of time in a under-capitalized environment. Of course, The following is a draft editorial I would like to see published in the mainstream press. In the meantime, here’s an overview of how a social innovation policy could mitigate

This is a hands-on computer based social media course that takes you step by step through how to set up, monitor and measure a social media marketing campaign. This course is not for absolute beginners – some familiarity with social media recommended. This is a popular course due to the practical hands-on nature of the exercises and tools used for creating social media marketing campaigns. Workshop Description We use case studies and work through a real world social media marketing campaigns by both teamwork and individual use of internet enabled PCs.

I’d love to catch up with them, maybe film/podcast their activities when I’m in Singapore in October ( teaching courses ) but do you think it would look weird? *sighs* Technorati Tags: asia , blogging , Online Communities , Singapore , techxav , teenagers ...Tags: Tags: Australia Online Communities Singapore asia blogs social media social networks blogging techxav I found this online community of bloggers today. Kinda cool:

Other computer lab based social media courses are also being run during October and November. This is a hands-on computer based course that takes you step by step through how to create, edit, tweak and promote a Wordpress Blog. The course is aimed at those who are investigating establishing a blog for business purposes but will also suit personal or hobbyists. One of the Laurel’s popular classes for computer based social media Here’s a workshop for you – mixing strategy with practical hands on experience, 2nd October 2009 in Sydney, 12th October in Brisbane, Singapore 26th October, 9th November in Hong Kong.

Hardly any surprises here – I’ve covered the popularity of Friendster in Asia in my Social Media podcasts , and the sophistication of the Malaysian social network industry in blog posts: MOL Global will take over 100 percent ownership of Friendster and hopes to bolster the social network’s position in the Asia-Pacific region where it’s a very strong player dominating the market . Friendster, the social network which set things off more than half a decade ago has finally been sold after several attempts in the past years. As expected ,

8217;m actually one of those sad cases that prefers user generated ads to agency ones (with a few exceptions of course). Social Media Asia: Ultimate Explorers Thailand is a post from: Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy Tags: Event Online Communities Travel asia blogs social media social networks web 2.0 Tourism Authority of Thailand have a social media challenge underway: submit a video of yourself, be selected to be one of 5 teams competing in the Ultimate Explorers Thailand competition. Each of the five teams of finalists will have six days and five

And of course, this kind of diagram certainly oversimplifies a very complex system in a complex space. The New York Times site will still be the New York Times site, of course--web sites per se aren't going anywhere. Look to Asia and northern Europe for a sense of mobile's future importance in the US. So what does your business have to offer your customers via mobile? Following last month's release of the iPhone 3G , along with the launch of the App Store , and what Brian Fling called the " first true Mobile 2.0 ," everyone around here is talking about the emergence of the mobile device as a critical facet of web strategy.

The Asia Times brings us a detailed and well-documented must-read three partanalysis predicting the end of the dollar-centric world: “Increasingly The Asia Times shows that part of the divestment is going to buying depressed western assets, thereby positioning itself a leading role in a post-meltdown world. complicating factor is of course that the combined effect of Peak Oil and Climate Change, what some have called I’m realizing I’m on thin ice here, as I have no professional understanding of economics, but nevertheless, I want to relay a convincing scenario, that some of my p2p friends have been sending to my mailbox.

1 This thinking was originally tested in WorldJam, IBMs first large-scale collaboration, held in May 2001, when over 50,000 employees (or 16 percent of the IBM employee population) discussed critical issues with IBM leaders over the course of a three-day online collaboration event. Much of the increase was due to opening up participation to many more employees. Figure 1 The shift to collaborative innovation has been gradual over the course of the last 10 years as the IBM business model has evolved beyond that of the e-Business era and IBM has become a services company.

Of course, few of these ventures were actually virtual communities and even fewer had any real understanding of what was required to build sustainable virtual communities. short-term “get rich quick” focus – of course, commercial viability is essential for businesses, but the time frames are critical – with a short-term time frame, commerce becomes corrosive of community, but with a longer term time frame, commerce and community powerfully reinforce each other Bottom up emergent organization vs. Edge Perspectives with John Hagel About Recent Posts With Liberty and Talent for All Pareto Power and Leveraged Growth Pareto Paring - Achieving Strategic Cost Reduction Exploring New Forms of Economic Leverage Shaping Strategies Unbundling Dells Businesses The Bigger Consequences of the Big Sort Stupidity and the Internet Innovation on the Edge Shift Happens – The Future of Advertising Archives