Damian Holmes » China http://www.damianholmes.com Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:19:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Six Links Sunday #5 London Riot Rebuilding, Stumbleupon, Social Media, China, Sketchup, New York, Crowdsourcing, Coke, Adidas, http://www.damianholmes.com/2011/08/21/six-links-sunday-5-london-riot-rebuilding-stumbleupon-social-media-china-sketchup-new-york-crowdsourcing-coke-adidas/ http://www.damianholmes.com/2011/08/21/six-links-sunday-5-london-riot-rebuilding-stumbleupon-social-media-china-sketchup-new-york-crowdsourcing-coke-adidas/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 08:17:55 +0000 Damian http://www.damianholmes.com/?p=855 Haven’t been as regular as I would like so I’m only up to Six Link Sunday #5. This week has been filled with social media, politics and stock market woes – so like many other weeks since 2007 but I digress.

(London)Riot Rebuild: The U.K’s Post-Riot Urban Intervention [Fast Company] Much has been written over the last ......

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Micro-blogging through various services has been growing over the last 3-4 years in China. It has become main news due to events involving natural and man-made disasters as well as scandals in pop-culture and officials. However, micro-blogging has now hit the mainstream conscious with today’s (August 1, 2011) front page of the China ......

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China’s Businesses Boom, But Its Brands Don’t | NPR http://n.pr/ktaReu Chinese companies booming at home and selling abroad through distributors but can’t seem to make a name for themselves.

Crowdsourcing: Tapping a world of ideas | Scoop NZ http://bit.ly/lro5UA Excerpt: “Crowdsourcing is a call to the masses ......

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Ethical social media dilemmas: What would you do? – Communication Conversations by Arik Hanson “….ethical situations come up and impact our working lives virtually every week. I wanted to highlight a few that I’ve bumped into lately below–and the way in which I’ve ......

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]]> http://www.damianholmes.com/2011/06/02/nhl-china/feed/ 1 Creating the right marketing material for the China market http://www.damianholmes.com/2011/06/01/creating-marketing-material-business-china/ http://www.damianholmes.com/2011/06/01/creating-marketing-material-business-china/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:08:29 +0000 Damian http://www.damianholmes.com/?p=702 Recently I have seen some brochures from international design companies for the Chinese market. Some were good and others were down right appalling. I thought I would give some insights into what makes your marketing material good or bad for the China market.

Lets start with the bad

Too smaller size font for Chinese text – I have ......

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]]> http://www.damianholmes.com/2011/01/25/cities-in-china-need-to-think-like-brands/feed/ 0 Android phones to see big growth in 2011 in China http://www.damianholmes.com/2010/12/27/android-phones-to-have-a-big-2011-in-china/ http://www.damianholmes.com/2010/12/27/android-phones-to-have-a-big-2011-in-china/#comments Mon, 27 Dec 2010 07:08:16 +0000 Damian http://www.damianholmes.com/?p=541 LG billboard for a new LG Android phone in a Shanghai subway station

Android is going to have a big year in China and it will occur due to the market size, the number of manufacturers, phone cost and growing community.

China is a big market for mobile phones – about 840 million subscribers and the ......

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]]> http://www.damianholmes.com/2010/12/27/android-phones-to-have-a-big-2011-in-china/feed/ 0 让子弹飞 Let the Bullets Fly took 60 million yuan http://www.damianholmes.com/2010/12/22/%e8%ae%a9%e5%ad%90%e5%bc%b9%e9%a3%9e-let-the-bullets-fly-took-60-million-yuan/ http://www.damianholmes.com/2010/12/22/%e8%ae%a9%e5%ad%90%e5%bc%b9%e9%a3%9e-let-the-bullets-fly-took-60-million-yuan/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:10:21 +0000 Damian http://www.damianholmes.com/?p=459 让子弹飞 Let the Bullets Fly a period movie starring Yun-Fat Chow, Carina Lau, Xiaogang Feng, You Ge and other well known Chinese Actors opened last week. The movie is a set in the 1920′s about a bandit and the gentry (good guy and bad guy film where the lines blur between who is bad and ......

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