Yesterday, the Media Development Authority announced radical new measures that could have a major impact on digital and online communications here in Singapore. The proposal is aimed at regulating online news sites, requiring them to obtain a license, put up a SG$50,000 (U$39,400) bond and commit to take down within 24 hours, any item deemed [...] Read full article
On Using Twitter Lists
From time to time I get asked about Twitter Lists. To be honest, I couldn’t use Twitter the was I do without them. So, I wanted to share my approach Twitter lists, along with some practical examples. Why Use Use Lists? If you follow more than a few hundred people, it becomes hard to keep [...] Read full article
12 Twitter Accounts To Follow In Singapore
I’m always on the lookout for new and interesting people on Twitter (where you find me as @fernandogros), especially creative voices here where I live, in Singapore. However, I don’t often find curated lists of people to follow. By contrast, in Hong Kong, there were a few really good lists. I was fortunate enough to [...] Read full article
LiveTweeting Tips
With Social Media Week in full swing, I thought it might be good to share a few things I’ve learnt from LiveTweeting talks and conferences over the past few years. I’ve made these Twitter specific, because I believe whatever the relative merits of different social media platforms, none comes close to Twitter for covering live [...] Read full article
Emotion, Passion And Selling Art
While I was live-tweeting during this morning’s Social Media Week Singapore Keynote, A few comments came back about the idea of passion points. The way I understand it, passion points are the interests people talk about on social media. For example, one of this morning’s speakers, Damien Cummings, suggested the passion points in Singapore are [...] Read full article
Social Media Week Singapore – Keynote
This morning I overcame a looming migraine (maybe lightning does cause them) and a gnawing sense of cynicism to attend this morning’s opening to Social Media Week Singapore. This morning’s event featured largely frank and jargon-free talks from Laura Balkovich, Head of Social APAC for Google and Damien Cummings, Regional Marketing Director, Digital & Social [...] Read full article
Social Media Week Singapore
February 18-22 will be Social Media Week here in Singapore. I didn’t attend Social Media Week last year, but looking at the schedule of over 30 events this year, a few items caught my attention. I will be attending, Opening Keynote: Damien Cummings, Samsung Asia & Laura Balkovich, Google – could be awesome, or not. [...] Read full article
How We Now Watch Sport
I posted this image online during this week’s SuperBowl. This is how I watched the game, on a computer, in my home office. It might well be indicative of a bigger trend in the way many of us enjoy sports and television these days. My Brief SuperBowl History Since childhood I’ve had a fascination with [...] Read full article
InstaMeltDown
It’s been a tumultuous 48 hours or so for users of the popular mobile photography platform Instagram. Recent changes to the platform’s Terms of Use have created a firestorm of comment on line. Plenty of articles have emerged advising users how to save their images and delete their Instagram accounts, with most of the furore [...] Read full article
The One Thing I’m Thankful To Facebook For
There was a fascinating, if slightly unbalanced article by Nathan Heller in New York Magazine recently, entitled I Really Like That You Like What I Like. Heller surveys the development of the internet and online conversation and asks, “when did the internet get so nice? In many ways, I agree the tone of the internet [...] Read full article