Old people like iPads, women like cute
My mind’s still buzzing with tech talk from Echelon 2012, the tech start-up event for Asia. So before I lose attention – boy, it’s hard these days when attention has been commoditized and mine’s down to a supergnat’s – here’s a summary of what I learnt.Summary cos I know your attentio [...]
Attention now a commodity, loyalty’s about creating social cocaine
To Brian Wong, the 21-year-old founder of Kiip, a mobile rewards platform for people who play games, loyalty 2.0 is about “creating social cocaine”.In other words, get people hooked and wanting more and when the more comes, it is unexpected and “surprises and delights”.Loyalty 2.0 must the [...]
WITNext job camp: Calling students, entrepreneurs, tourism professionals and mentors
From left, Syaz and Gerry testing the visualiser in a seminar room; one of the rooms where the bootcamps will be held; and the auditorium where the conference track will staged So we’ve done our site inspection of the SMU Admin Building where we will be holding our first ever WITNext Summ [...]
Kissing the roses goodbye – a resort transforms
Since my last visit to Sampran Riverside in Thailand more than 20 years ago I had made a promise to return, but somehow that did not materialise. So when a weekend retreat was planned there after WITX-Women In Travel in Bangkok last month, I jumped at the opportunity. Situated about 30km west of B [...]
Tale of two trees at Sampran Riverside
While the Rose Garden has changed its name to Sampran Riverside, one thing has not changed – the love and respect for nature. These two videos tell the story of two trees - how the original pikul (bullet wood) tree which you could say gave birth to the Rose Garden was saved during the recent flood [...]
The Making of ‘My Dream Job’ video
If you’ve watched our video for “The Dream Job Pitch”, the job competition we are doing for the WITNext Summercamp, you might like to know who was the creative brains behind it.Meet Joanne Kwok, who is an Undergraduate (Year 4) at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management [...]
Goodbye, Phil
I didn’t quite make it as far north as Cape Reinga on this trip to New Zealand. But I wished I had. That’s because then I would have been able to bid farewell to an old friend, Phil Jackson, who left us on Sunday, May 13.Cape Reinga sits at the top end of the North Island of New Zealand. It is [...]
Are you tired of Social Media?
The term ‘social media fatigue’ is not uncommon – something that’s been bandied about for a while. In fact, I remember our own Siew Hoon using it when talking to the panel in her moderation session following Singapore’s Social Media week keynote last year.I mention it because I’m in [...]
Why it’s not always about fixing the problem
The more I learn about what women want, the more I am convinced that OTAs and a lot of travel websites are missing a vital point in their business model.Let me explain. A while back, I was talking to a friend who was celebrating his 30th wedding anniversary. “What’s your secret?” I asked.He g [...]
Treat women like the angels they are
Emilie Couton, director of hotel solutions for Accor Asia Pacific, started her presentation by asking the audience if they felt women were more like angels or devils as customers.When the majority said “devils”, she smiled and said that perhaps by the end of her speech, they’d change their mi [...]
