An excellent video released by TED.com, of Sir Ken Robinson making an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. What say you?

Dear all,We’re changing our clothes.. Clothes for our blog that is. Bear with us for the next couple of days or so, as we start dressing up and getting pretty. During this period, all comments and posts will be disabled. Your kind understanding on this will be deeply appreciated.And oh, Happy Easter everyone!

Here’s an interesting report done up by ZDNet, a news site / blog that covers the beat in the Technology industry. It’s called “Is Social PR For Real? Which Agencies Get It?”A timely article, with some great research insights from internal PR directors / managers followed by chief marketing officers / vice presidents of marketing ...

Wow. Pat and I just had a great time learning from Chris Graves, President & CEO, Asia Pacific, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide. That’s a pretty big role, if you consider that my position is somewhere really low in the food chain. But you know what’s the best thing? Chris doesn’t behave like that.. He embraces ...

We started talking about this study in September last year and it’s now ready for download.We’ve covered 12 countries in Asia and we hope you’ll find the insights useful in helping to gain a better understanding of how to benefit from interacting with customers through social media.Thanks to everyone who’s helped with this, as well ...

I hate using the phrase “pitching bloggers” ‘cuz it sets my teeth on edge and I think creates a negative perception from the get-go…but for lack of a better phrase, here are 11 points straight from one horse’s mouth that every communications professional should hard-code into their heads. We need to stop propagating PR flackdom!I ...

You’ve probably heard people going “Everyone is on Facebook”. But… is that really the case for Asia Pacific? I chanced upon this blog by Eric Baillargeon, and the Facebook numbers on it simply left me drooling. Eric obtained his global penetration figures from the the Facebook ad center and has been extremely generous ...

Recently, we organised an Open Room event at The Screening Room for bloggers to meet Yasmin Ahmad, the director of the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports latest commercial, simply entitled “Family.”It’s a simple commercial with one simple message. love that is found in the family.Yasmin is indeed a true storyteller, who uses unconventional, ...

If you were present at the Ogilvy Singapore Verge Digital Summit, a million thank yous for making it down. I hope your time spent there was fruitful because it certainly was for me. I’ve always believed in the one true constant of life: Change. More and more consumers in Asia Pacific are going online and ...

if you haven’t already seen this, i hope it inspires you somewhat that this is a new age of information we’re drawing ourselves into, and the old ways.. well, they’ve laid a great foundation, but they’re going to have to be used to giving some of that control over to us - the user.