Kiyo Nakata sends this interesting photo from Tokyo. Kiyo was one of the first people in Japan to discover my previous book The New Rules of Marketing & PR and his blogging was instrumental in Nikkei discovering the book and publishing it in Japanese where it is now one of the bestselling PR and marketing books. Thanks Kiyo!
The photo was shot at Kiyo wife Harumi's shop in Tokyo which creates and sells Wagashi, a traditional Japanese confectionary. In the photo, Harumi is holding their oldest son, Joey. Harumi's father has started the shop in 1967 and it has been family run ever since.
Kiyo is an Account Director at The Hoffman Agency, a PR agency in Japan. He mainly works for IT companies, and his blog called IT companies PR gives him a chance to talk about his ideas.
It seems a localized World Wide Rave has broken out in Singapore! Since I posted Ephraim Loy's photo a few days ago I have gotten photos by way of blog posts from three others in Singapore.
Jonathan Huang sends us A World Wide Rave: The Singapore Girl & Worship
Terri and Cheryl send photos in a storyboard format from Newton Food Centre
It's Tiger Time from Raj
Karen has a great night shot on her Singchester blog
Tabbi has a series of shots of the poster in transit.
Anirban Datta Gupta sends some photos from the southern-most point in continental Asia
And Dorothy Poon created an amazing panorama. Dorothy's photo is getting a feature position in the video I am currently working on which will pull together as many photos as possible from around the world. I will release the video in late February 2009. (Wait till you see what I did with this panorama)!
I just received a very cool video from Tina Nirmal, Apurva Prasanna, and Michelle Kusuma from the Singapore Indoor Stadium. I hope to use a clip from this for my video too and am talking to my video producer now.
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Andrew Peters is the brains behind social media promotion leading up to the 1st Annual Singapore Tattoo Show, held January 9-11, 2009. The goal was to get 5,000 visitors to the show where over 120 artists from around, plus activities and companies representing all modern tattoo styles.
Andrew used Facebook as a way for people to connect starting 3 months prior to the event and the Tattoo Artistry Facebook Group quickly gained 3,000 members and secured a place as the center of this artwork for the region. The passion of people for "their event" led to many people promoting to their friends online and built a community eager to attend the live event. This world Wide Rave resulted in more than 15,000 people attending -- three times the expected number.
Tattoo Artistry on Facebook is now Asia's largest social network for the tattoo industry, tattoo enthusiasts, and fans. The group will continue to grow as an online destination to connect and plans are already underway for the 2nd Singapore Tattoo Show in 2010.
Prakash Dogra took this photo with his children Leisha and Prakarsh standing in front of the iconic Taj Mahal Hotel at the Gateway of India. Sadly, the hotel was made even more famous for the wrong reasons just a month before this was taken as it was the scene of a terrorist attack.
"My daughter Leisha is holding the poster and she loved doing this," Prakash says. "This view is one of the first views of the city if you come via the sea route.” Prakash told me that he prefers to refer to his city by its earlier name of Bombay. Here is his post about the photo.
Here is a great photo taken on Mt. Ooe, which is on the border of the old Tamba district and Tango district in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.
The photo was taken by my father-in-law, Reitaro Watanabe. The lovely young woman in the photo is my mother-in-law Reiko Watanabe.
