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Accessing Twitter from China via Linkedin (Proxy/VPN not required).

07.21.2010 Social Media
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Accessing Twitter from China via VPN or proxy takes forever, so recently I discovered a way to get around it by accident. This happened while I was tinkering with my Linkedin account, and discovered that Linkedin’s twitter plugin “Tweets” will allow you to access Twitter direct from China sans proxy/VPN. This is pretty cool, as [...]

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P&G Xiaonei campaign, dressed as Social Media… smells like a big Ad

08.27.2009 P&G
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With opportunities to win cars, flights, holidays and even cash you have to wonder why anyone would go and support a bar of soap or shampoo product for simply a ‘chance’ to win a 200RMB value prize pack. But once again China’s booming Social Networking sites continue to generate interest for what would seem to [...]

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L’Oreal; Celebrates 100th anniversary on China social media.

07.28.2009 Baidu
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June 3rd, 2009 was L’oreal’s 100th anniversary. To celebrate this special occasion, and take advantage of it to market itself, L’oreal launched a social media campaign throughout different China SNS sites. This campaign’s portal website is L’oreal100.com.cn – a website L’oreal created especially for this 100th anniversary; and the overall theme of this campaign is [...]

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Dell; China promotion through social media: Almost, but not quite.

07.23.2009 Case Studies
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Continue from yesterday’s entry, China domestic PC brand Foundertech and International PC brand Dell both created a doodle contest, and both are promoting it through a Chinese SNS site – Xiaonei. After reviewing Foundertech’s campaign, now it is time for Dell. Dell’s doodle contest website: Dell’s Xiaonei banner took me to its independent website for [...]

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360quan; Social network for teenagers proves China’s youth are insane.

07.10.2009 360QUAN
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Chinese youth are insane. Well ok, maybe not insane, but certainly not sane either. Lets call them “unsane”. Why, pray tell, do I make such nasty accusations? Well the short answer is I’m judgmental and have a selective ignorance (that I choose to ignore). The long answer? The long answer is that it there may be [...]

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