Last week I was a judge at the Asian Marketing Effectiveness Awards, a sort of AP Cannes I guess, and I was in equal parts encouraged and dismayed for the PR industry.
The good news is that regularly in the two-day ...Read More
Guest post by Raymond Siva, managing director of Edelman Kuala Lumpur (pictured).
It truly was a weekend of overacting, grandstanding and political intrigue. The 2013 general elections in Malaysia (GE13) has been historic and has set a new benchmark of civic consciousness and ...Read More
Pictured (L-R): Robert Holdheim, CEO of South Asia, Middle East and Africa; and Francois Baird, chair of Edelman Africa.
Today’s announcement of the proposed acquisition of Baird’s Renaissance means that Edelman at last will own a presence in Africa. I ...Read More
Guest post by Arie Rukmantara.
Indonesia has witnessed an activism heyday, especially the pro-democracy movement that preceded the onset of the reformasi (reform era), which began with the fall of the military dictatorship in 1998. In this period, NGOs worked clandestinely ...Read More
Guest post by Stephen Lock.
Indonesian physicians are turning to the internet to empower patients with information while also using the internet to strengthen their professional network. These are amongst the most striking findings of the Edelman Indonesia healthcare provider survey. ...Read More
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Above is the first of a series of seven videos we have made about the generation born in the 1970’s in China. They are, in effect, the generation whose work and efforts transformed China into the second largest and consistently ...Read More
Edelman has been studying Trust for 13 years now globally and in the Asia Pacific region for 9 years. Trust is the foundation of corporate and brand reputation and in every culture and language there is a word or a ...Read More
Tony Tao and I banging on about Trust in Shanghai. And here is another of my spectacularly badly shot, out-of-focus and almost drowned-out-by-the-jackhammers videos. All very real and gritty innit.
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Guest post by Stephen Lock.
Image by ASEAN.org.
As Brunei begins its 2013 Chairmanship of ASEAN it takes over at a time of enormous potential and very hard work. ASEAN – the Association of Southeast Asian Nations – is going through a remarkable transformation. Once regarded as a ...Read More
I am conscious in writing anything about Dan Edelman that there are many people in my firm who worked more closely with him and for much longer. Being in Chicago at the moment I am very aware of that as ...Read More