I spent the morning today at a press event for a handful of Lenovo’s athlete bloggers all talking about their experience of blogging during the Olympics. The three participants we had were Peter Lopez (a Peruvian Tae Kwon Do athlete), Carissa Gump (an American weightlifter), and Seth Kelsey (an American fencer). The event was slightly
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Notes From Inside The Beijing Olympic Athletes Village
Today I had a chance to do what I have never been able to do at the other two Olympics I attended … get an inside look at the Athlete’s Village. For those who don’t know, the Athlete’s Village at any Olympic Games is usually the most quarantined area of the Games. Media are not
Continue reading »How To Bargain Effectively In Olympic Beijing, China
The one thing I always relearn every time I return to Asia is the art of bargaining. It is one that is strangely missing from most people’s daily lives if they live in America. Perhaps that is the reason many Americans are so bad at it. When you live in a culture where bargaining is
Continue reading »Kleenex Premieres Olympic Documentary "Let It Out"
If you are one of those people that gets in front of the television every evening with a box of tissues to get ready for the melodramatic overload that is the American television coverage of the Olympics, then you’ll be thrilled to know that as part of their sponsorship of the US Olympic team, Kleenex
Continue reading »A Great Day For India: Abhinav Bindra & Raj Bhavsar
Today I’m at the Olympics and I’m very proud to be Indian. You might have heard the story of Abhinav Bindra, the Shooter from India who just won the country’s first Gold medal in over 25 years and first individual Gold medal ever. To say he is a hero to more than a billion people
Continue reading »Dinner With The Namibians
When I boarded my flight to Beijing, I didn’t have a single ticket for any Olympic events and I wasn’t worried. To understand why, I need to tell you about my best day during the Summer Olympics in Sydney in 2000. I was living there and had one night where I was heading out to
Continue reading »An Inside Look At Beijing During The Olympics
I have officially been in Beijing for 4 days now. I start this post with that admission, because before you read this I want you to know that I’m no expert on Beijing or China. Before this current trip, I have been here once before. Aside from a few useful phrases, I don’t really speak
Continue reading »The Great #080808 Beijing Olympic Twitter Campaign Catches F ...
Anyone who has been to enough events with social media creators knows that it is inevitable that people will find a way to connect and find one another. To a degree, Twitter first caught on from this need a year and a half ago at SXSW in 2007. I have witnessed it over and over,
Continue reading »PRWeek Blog Competition And 4 Reasons I Love AND Hate PR
My blog was recently chosen among 32 top blogs in the PR profession to be part of the PRWeek Blog Competition. Before I tell you what I love and hate about PR, if you’re a consistent reader of this blog, can I shamelessly ask for you to please vote for me here? I sometimes find
Continue reading »A Beijing Experiment: How To Feature Olympic Content On Your ...
I just landed in Beijing and will be spending the next two weeks here as part of the promotional efforts for what I have previously called my dream project, helping Lenovo to promote its Voices of the Summer Games site that features 100 Olympic athletes blogging their journies to Beijing and experiences at the Olympics.
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