MD Summit & Zhou Village

I ran a corporate marathon in China. Massive work due to the Johnson&Johnson Media Summit, finished it off with a great party on Friday nite, only to start our own MD Summit on Saturday and Sunday. I liked it this year - more on strategy, direction, competitor analysis, aligment of our services with the market needs. Refreshing compared to last year, where we had to suffer from indegestion from hours of spreadsheet analysis. I worked till 4am on Saturday (after partying with Will and Yifat) to finish off my slides, as I was the first track presenter on "New Emerging Services; Web 2.0", so covering new media formats, personal and branded blogs, podcasting, vcasting, cool tools (like blog virtual pets), working with social media and partners, AJAX applications, spotting viral opportunites (like Bus Uncle)... ufff. We had some of our clients and media partners present. J&J's global media vp came to speak too, she's an amazing and inspirational woman.

This was also the time to re-connect with my favourite colleages from KL, missed TK and Nik very much. Brainstorms and creative work have not been the same since I left KL!

On Monday, I got a preview of what an organised tour can be like. We jumped on a bus and got wisked away to ZhouZhang, or Zhou Village. They call it the Venice of China. While most people did the mainstream stuff, Nik, TK and I went exploring the back lanes. Verdict: mildly interesting.














3 on the Bund