Thursday evenings at Rice are reserved for team bonding. A colleague has been put in charge of coming up with fun company-funded activities that the entire team participates in. So far this has translated into Sonyas posse going out for drinks Sonyas posse hanging around the office playing Rock Band or as we discovere ... [Read More]
As I read Don Jennings piece this morning I cant help but notice his happy circumstance seems to derive from factors all beyond his immediate sphere of influence.
I thought I would share my own thoughts on how you can enjoy a long term career in a PR agency.
1. Bring the right attitude to work.
The PR business ... [Read More]
Here’s just some of the tweets that came out of MMAF 2011.
You can read the other tweets about the forum by looking up the #MMAF2011 hashtag.
Day 1
@darrenyan Mobile users demand individual relationships with brands. #MMAF2011
@mhisham Keeping engagement simple is hard. #MMAF2011
@Chriss35 Mobile Phone Users look at it 15 ... [Read More]
For three days last week Singapore played host to the Mobile Marketing Association Forum Singapore (MMAF) and the team from Rice Communications was there on all three days deep in the thick of things.
This years MMAF was squarely focused on the consumer as the centre of and target for mobile marketing activities and ove ... [Read More]
The best part of the Mobile Marketing Association Forum (for me anyway) is that I get to see demonstrations of all kinds of new technology and videos of some of the incredibly creative campaigns being run all over Asia. Here are some videos that we saw at MMAF.
This is Blyk an opt-in marketing programme that̵ ... [Read More]
To my great joy I’ve finally finished Gateway to Mandarin level 2 a course in conversational Mandarin offered by the Singapore Chinese Chamber Institute of Business (SCCIOB) the training arm of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI). They like long titles there I assume.
The course took five we ... [Read More]
I admit this post is a little late
If you didn’t know already I’m pleased to announce that Rice Communications has moved to a new location. It’s not that far from our old office just down the road next to the 7-11 on Duxton Road. We’ve got the second floor spread across *two* shophouses at 39A ... ... [Read More]
I’ve just come back from boot camp … Social Media Boot Camp that is.
For two full days last week a roomful of willing participants (including yours truly) went through the basics of Social Media for Business including the finer points of using Facebook Twitter and LinkedIn. The boot camp run by Digital Vidya an ... [Read More]
The IPRS Chillout Night (23 February 2011 at the Ai Mien Bar in Capital Tower) turned out to be more educational for me than anything else. Guest speaker Bjorn Turmann (author of Speaking Energy: Public Speaking for Humans Finally!) delivered a captivating presentation with a frighteningly long title. The talk title ... [Read More]
Darren Fifield Managing Director for Asia Pacific at e-Dialog participated this morning in a panel discussion addressing the outlook for the region at the US-Asia Pacific Regional Business Meeting held in Singapore.
It was refreshing to see some representation from the marketing and advertising industry in what could have bee ... [Read More]