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CNBloggerCon 2008 in review: Transforming China’s civil society from the inside out

CNBloggerCon 2008 in review: Transforming China’s civil society from the inside out

Social media, and the blogosphere, are playing a historic role in the transformation of China. Because mainstream media in China continues to be regulated and controlled,... 

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CNBloggerCon 2008 photos: my favorites from my Flickr set

CNBloggerCon 2008 photos: my favorites from my Flickr set

CNBloggerCon 2008.  I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard covering an event before as a blogger.  In addition to dealing with the logistics of the... 

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Brad Setser’s conclusions on World Bank China Quarterly report

Brad Setser’s conclusions on World Bank China Quarterly report

Thanks to Bill Bishop (see below), I read Brad Setser’s post entitled “If you only read one thing on China this fall” praising the World Bank China... 

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Customer Service: Subway Delivers 24″ of Goodwill

Customer Service: Subway Delivers 24″ of Goodwill

Complaints about poor service in China are common, especially amongst foreigners with both a language gap and a different set of expectations. Some manage to lower... 

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Chinese Blogger Conference 2008 and China 2.0 Tour: A Look Back

Chinese Blogger Conference 2008 and China 2.0 Tour: A Look Back

It took quite a while for the dust to settle — quite a number of us jabbed the pause button on our “regular lives” as we spent seven full days... 

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International Chinese: my speech at CNBloggerCon 2008

International Chinese: my speech at CNBloggerCon 2008

It’s probably a bit odd for me to be writing about my own speech, as I somehow tend to see this as shameless self-promotion. Nevertheless, I’m doing... 

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China 2009 growth rate will hit 19-year low says World Bank

China 2009 growth rate will hit 19-year low says World Bank

Right after we posted on why the global financial crisis will hit China harder than the US and Europe, the World Bank published its estimate for 2009 growth (h/t... 

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Global financial crisis will hurt China much more than the US

Global financial crisis will hurt China much more than the US

I had coffee with Philip Johnson, former Silicon Valley Bank executive who is now a Beijing-based financial adviser to start-up companies in China.  On his visit... 

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ExploreMetro: Useful, Intuitive China Subway Maps & Information

ExploreMetro: Useful, Intuitive China Subway Maps & Information

Every so often you run into something so completely wonderful, it forces you to ask yourself, “how the hell did I never hear of this before?” ExploreMetro... 

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Blogger Insight: Chinese bloggers delivers the real scoop on the Chinese market

Blogger Insight: Chinese bloggers delivers the real scoop on the Chinese market

Scenario:  Let’s say you are a foreign multinational (or startup) considering market entry into China.  You’ve seen how companies like Ebay have failed... 

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China 2.0 Tour: We Planted Seeds of Deeper Understanding

China 2.0 Tour: We Planted Seeds of Deeper Understanding

Reflecting back on the China 2.0 Tour–lead sponsored by Edelman Digital Media China and organized by us, Web2Asia and The China Business Network–I am... 

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Chinese Teen Beating & Humiliation Videos: Viral or Virus?

Chinese Teen Beating & Humiliation Videos: Viral or Virus?

2008 coined the Chinese internet meme: 很黄，很暴力 (“very yellow, very violent”). Despite roundly being used in the most humorous of situations,... 

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Publishing Autonomy — CnbloggerCon 2008

Publishing Autonomy — CnbloggerCon 2008

Publishing Autonomy in the New Economy Speaker: Christopher Adams Taslima Nasrin’s photo on flickr found by Japanese magazine. How did they find the photo? I used... 

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Asia Open Web – CnbloggerCon 2008

Asia Open Web – CnbloggerCon 2008

Speaker: Lu Gang. PhD, TechCrunch (mobinode), blognation (readwritebweb) Old school BBS: The Chinese Social Networking Phenomenon China’s Facebook Clones Research... 

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Internet and Civil Society in China – CNbloggerCon 2008

Internet and Civil Society in China – CNbloggerCon 2008

Panel – NGO 2.0: Internet and the Growth of China’s Civil Society Speaker: Lu Fei The Use of Online Information Platform for NGO Relief Work During Wenchuan... 

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