Speaking at IandI roundtable on business blogging on April 24th

Apologies for not having time to write much recently. Here's another event:

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TEAMSWORK and ‘I and I’ Asia presents...

Next Monday Evening (April 24th) at the Hayworth Creativity Centre, Shanghai.

Find out why blogging should be a critical part of your business communications and media strategy

Why should you be interested in blogging?

Bloggers and internet pundits are exerting a "disproportionately large influence" on society, according to a report by Jupiter Research, a technology research company. Its study suggests that although "active" web users make up only a small proportion of the online population, they are increasingly dominating public conversations and creating business trends.

The strongest part of their influence is on the media: if something online suddenly becomes a story in the local press, then it matters.

The idea of small groups being able to pressurize wider decisions is nothing new, but those who ignore online buzz do so at their peril:

Are you ignoring a trend that can very quickly make you look like a very old-fashioned company?

Come and share the insights of blogging with some of Shanghai’s leading experts on using blogging to re-shape how companies think about customers.

Learn how:

• Entrepreneurs are using blogging to expand their market visibility
• You can use blogging to promote yourself, your services, or company's services
• To become an 'influential' in your market space

Next Monday, I and I Asia and TEAMSWORK have invited four experienced bloggers to discuss their experiences in China and to share what works and what doesn’t.

Bloggers who write for small audiences, can sometimes achieve wider fame or become the focus of consumer campaigns. How are you going to use blogging with your business?

The event will be a roundtable which will allow you full access to interact with the panel.

Come along and learn from experienced professionals involved in the new and growing field of business blogging

Moderator: Warwick John Fahy

Public speaker, writer and communication coach, Founding President of the Professional Speakers Association of China and Chairman for Toastmasters International in China.

When

Next Monday evening, April 24th, from 18:30 hours.

RSVP: sh@iandiasia.com or events@warwickjohnfahy.com

Please RSVP now!!

As you know from the last Executive Coaching Panel – there is limited space.

Where

Hayworth Shanghai Creativity Centre. Tel: 6384-7799

5/F, One Corporate Avenue, No. 222 Hu Bin Road

Near to Xin Tian Di in the ‘PwC Building Complex’.

Entrance Fee

RMB 60 (with RSVP) or RMB 100 (without RSVP).

Includes drinks and light snacks.

Our Panel

Maria Trombly

Maria Trombly is the Source Media bureau chief in Shanghai, and has been here for the past two years. (Source Media used to be known as Thomson Media, a division of Thomson Financial.) She writes about enterprise blogging, and is also the regular host of the Shanghai Webbloggers group. Trombly has been a journalist for over 15 years, starting at the Chicago Tribune. In the mid-90s, she was a war correspondent in the republics of the former Soviet Union, then returned to the United States to cover the dot-com boom for Computerworld. In addition to her work for her primary newspaper, she also writes regularly for Computerworld, CIO Magazine, CIO Insight, and other technology publications.

Frank Mulligan

Frank Mulligan is the CEO of Talent Software, the only incumbent provider of fully bilingual Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) hiring technology in China. The business model is simple. Talent Software builds client companies a hiring infrastructure and a hiring process, then operates it. The process is run through the company’s flagship product, Talent, which is a fully featured, bi-lingual English/Chinese Applicant Tracking System (ATS).

Frank’s blog has been up and running as a ‘real blog’ for about 6 months. Previously he posted, for about 3 years, on a daily basis using a simple business article model. He is currently syndicated on HRMS, Net Assets and Onrec, and a nominee for Best of Blogs in 2005. His own site has syndicated content from the leading lights in Human Resources and includes industry heavyweights like John Sumser, Dr. Wendel Williams, Lou Adler, Yves Lermesiaux, Dr. Bill Fischer, Dr. Charles Handler, and Dr. Irv Beiman.

Ken Carroll

Ken is a well-known Blogger, an author, an entrepreneur and a radio host (Dong Fang 101.7 FM). He is co-founder of Kai En English Language Training Center and of a company called ‘On Demand Training’. He possesses a BA Philosophy from UC Dublin.

Sam Flemming

Since co-founding CIC data in 2003, Sam is working to adopt and adapt for the China market the best practices and concepts from the Word of Mouth industry and the overall Web 2.0 movement.

Prior to co-founding CIC data, Sam was responsible for Corporate Communications and Business Development for Shanghai Huateng, a former joint venture of Tandem/Compaq Computers, from 1998-2002. From 1999-2000, Sam raised the profile of the company in the investment community leading to over US $20 million from overseas and local investment.

In 2000, he initiated the launch of Chinapay.com, the first online payment company in China. Until 2002, he oversaw projects with Citibank and HSBC. During his tenure, Huateng became the first Citibank Preferred Service Provider from China.

Sam holds an MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, CA and a BA in Sociology and Religion from Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. He is a native speaker of English, speaks Mandarin Chinese, and has lived in Shanghai for 7 years.

About I and I Asia

I and I - (Industry and Innovation - established in1997) is an association focused on facilitating the development of healthy businesses in China and fostering cooperation between Chinese and foreign enterprises. The organization's main activities revolve around a series of discussion panels and networking mixers designed to encourage sharing of best practices among the executives who participate. For more information, visit their web site at www.iandiasia.com

I and I Asia proudly partners with TEAMSWORK for this event!

About TEAMSWORK

TEAMSWORK provide custom business solutions to multinational clients who need to increase team productivity. They help teams and leaders grow by facilitating engaging workshops, coaching, and activities that overcome obstacles which prevent growth and performance. Also, they help companies achieve a real measurable improvement in their management skills.

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For more info, go here.

Hope to see you there....

Reward: Up to 10,000 RMB for finding good people for CIC data

本文的中文版， 请进入这里: http://www.cicdata.com/refer.htm

CIC data is growing…and growing fast. And we need people. Really good people. Good technology people and good analysts.

As anyone who works in China knows, in spite of the massive population, finding good people in this incredibly booming market is very challenging, particularly in the industry in which CIC data competes.

We are a different company and so it makes sense for us to approach our recruitment differently. We believe in the power of social media (aka blogs and BBS) and word of mouth and want to see if it can help us.

Why would anyone want to work for us?

• We have a great team in place now which has an incredible passion and belief in blogs and BBS. We work hard; we work hard because we love what we do.
  

• In the last 6 months, we have built up an impressive stable of retainer clients for our BBS and Blog monitoring service; almost all end users are Fortune 500 clients. We generally convert one off project clients into retainer clients.
  

• We are part of an exciting new industry that is already very hot in the West. We are at the forefront of adopting and adapting this for China. See here for industry background in Chinese or English. Read recent media articles about us here and here.
  

• We are just different (in a good way). See here to understand more.
  

So here’s the deal: if you refer someone to CIC data, and we hire them and they stay with us at least six months, then we will pay you some cool, hard cash. It’s that simple.

We will pay you based on the monthly salary of each person you recommend. We are hiring from very junior to very senior positions, so the range is quite wide. If you refer yourself, then you can get the cash after 6 months. If you would rather donate to charity, then we can do that as well.

Here’s who we are looking for:

Tech: (ideally with text mining background)

• Senior VB Programmer
• Senior Java Programmer with Text Mining background
• Technical Research Director

Research Analysts:

• Senior Analyst:
• Client Service Director:

See all JD’s here:

BTW, fluency in spoken and written Chinese is an absolute must.

This is not a hoax…it is the real deal. We want the best! If you are not looking for a job right now, this maybe the job for you. Can you help?

Please send all referrals to: refer@cicdata.com

Kudos to Seth Godin for inspiring this post.