Poll: My New Business Card Design

Posted on 28. Nov, 2009 by Brian Wong.

Can you help me?
I’m not sure if this new business card design is a good idea. Can you help by letting me know what you think in the poll below?
A lot of business cards just end up in the trash. My idea was to make a card that actually get’s the recipient to find me [...]

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Facebook Marketing Case Study: Ikea

Posted on 26. Nov, 2009 by Brian Wong.

Here’s an interesting and recent case study of a traditional brick and mortar company using social media as a new marketing medium in an innovative way.
In this case, some bright spark at an ad agency designed a way for Ikea to use their existing inventory and an existing feature in Facebook – photo tagging to [...]

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Wordpress Tip: How To Post to Facebook Pages Instead of Profile Pages

Posted on 26. Nov, 2009 by Brian Wong.

There are many Wordpress plugins that allow you to post an update to social media sites.
But when it comes to Facebook, its a little tricky. That’s because you can have a Facebook Profile page and a Facebook Public Profile page a.k.a. Facebook Fan Pages.
Because your Facebook “Friends” are different from your “Fans” – a common [...]

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Great Fatherly Advice..

Posted on 25. Nov, 2009 by Brian Wong.

This is a video excerpt taken from the movie “In Pursuit of Happyness” starring Wil Smith and his son Jaden Smith.
I found this movie really inspiring because its based on the real life rags to riches story of Christopher Gardner in 1981.
I think I enjoyed it more because I can relate to the power that [...]

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Google Chrome OS Vs Mac OSX and Windows?

Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by Brian Wong.

Everybody is dying to get a glimpse of Google’s upcoming Chrome OS – that is the name of Google’s new operating system. And here it is. They had a demo at earlier this month at the company HQ.

Here are the highlights:
Speed & Simplicity
Speed and Simplicity is the focus. Sound familiar? They are copying the successful [...]

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Want Invites for Google Wave?

Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by Brian Wong.

I have received some invitations to use Google Wave. Its really an awesome communication tool. Maybe a bit ahead of its time but its definitely something that we will evolve to using at some point as our default communication tool.
I would love to send you an invite but I only have limited invites. And only [...]

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New Aweber Webforms Announced

Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by Brian Wong.

Aweber is one of my favorite marketing tools. I really think that as far as autoresponders go, its the very best.
Ultimately, the most important thing about an autoresponder is deliverability. This is where Aweber really shines with 99.9% success rate each time.
However, of late, I have found that they have stepped up their game to [...]

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[Vid] Facebook Adds Twitter-Like Features to Status Updates

Posted on 22. Nov, 2009 by Brian Wong.

Facebook recently added a new feature to allow users to reference friends or Facebook pages in their status updates.
Here’s a 2-minute video tutorial of how to make use of this new feature:

Some notes, the “@” feature only works to reference friends in your Friend list and Facebook pages that you are a fan of.
For all [...]

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Announcing the Arrival of Tristan Wong

Posted on 20. Nov, 2009 by Brian Wong.

My wife’s water bag broke last Wednesday. That’s 5 weeks earlier than expected and so I’m happy to announce that I’m a new dad again!
Here’s a first look at my second son Tristan Wong weighing in at 2.5 kg at birth.

I thank God that both mother and son are doing very well with no complications [...]

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Twitter Tip: How To Promote Your Company, Product or Brand Professionally on Twitter

Posted on 10. Nov, 2009 by Brian Wong.

I love me some Twitter.
But alas, there are many newbies who are using Twitter the wrong way to promote “stuff”. These users actually lower the value to all other Twitter users by being of low value and generally being a nuisance by adding irrelevant “noise” to the Twitter feed.
Eventually, these accounts will be permanently blocked [...]

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