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Ipart.cn; Undisturbed Digital Domestic Bliss.

09.24.2009 China SNS Snapshot
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Whilst it’s difficult to find a branded social community having little or no predators, ipart.com definitely leads the way. It could be one of the few communities that hosts a disturbance-free online atmosphere, and given the site basically operates a virtual ‘apartment’ where complete strangers (mostly boys and girls) live under the one roof [...]

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DHL; Awesome China Magazine Advertising.

09.21.2009 DHL
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Here’s a cool magazine ad from DHL; simple, clean, and effective. The main communication here is you can “instantly” send a package from China to Japan. Unfortunately the imagery that represents China is pretty similar to the imagery that symbolizes Japan, so at first look, it seems like the two recipients could be down the [...]

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Pocari MSN campaign pulls in record number of individual votes!

09.08.2009 Case Studies
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From singing contests to essay contests – all the big brands are using a ‘voting’ system to build mass amounts of traffic to a community. It works so why wouldn’t you? It spreads viral and it spreads fast through dedicated pockets of existing (offline) social communities.
This particular campaign seemed pretty ‘normal’ in what [...]

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Chinese netizens express mixed responses to college student’s job application for “full-time housewife to rich man”.

04.17.2009 China Modern Culture
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A fourth year college girl’s job seeking advertisement received many Chinese netizens’ attention recently. Instead of looking for opportunity to work for a company, the girl is looking for a full-time housewife “job position”.
Here is the news article from Sina (source: Jinan Times) -
“Fourth year college girl is looking for a job – Look forward [...]

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