Internship available at JamiQ

My company JamiQ creates software that helps organizations monitor the social media.

JamiQ is offering a 10-week structured internship program. We are seeking two (2) social media-savvy, measurement-oriented interns who enjoy working and learning in a startup environment. Positions are available from 26 July 2010 onwards.

You will construct regular analysis of a brand's reputation on the Internet. Depending on your aptitude and interest, you may be involved in other aspects of the startup. You will learn about the business of public relations, advertising, marketing, social media, and data processing technologies.

Interns will dedicate half of their internship time in the design, pitch and the full implementation of one research or marketing project. You may also additionally participate in existing research projects with leading universities in Singapore.

JamiQ is a social media monitoring company based in Singapore led by a team of entrepreneurs, public relation consultants, media buying professionals and developers. For even more information, see other job postings and research.

In addition, you get:
  • Above Average or Performance-Based Internship Pay
  • Design Your Own Research or Marketing Project
  • Central Business District Office Location
  • Startup Environment
  • Two (2) Positions Available from 26 July
  • Work with Awesome People
To apply, send in your resume to jobs@jamiq.com as soon as possible. For more information, please call Kelvin Quee at +65 9177 3635.
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What are people saying about CommunicAsia 2010?

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ION Orchard on par with Takashimaya in Singapore searches

Taking Takashimaya as a benchmark being one of the most popular shopping malls (actually it's the name of the departmental store in the Ngee Ann City Mall), the newly built ION Orchard has done well to create a significant spike and maintain its trend close to Takashimaya which has had many years to prove itself.

Chart and data was taken from Google's 2009 Zeitgeist which is always fun to look at.

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Kozak's sexy (and funny) local online campaign

This is both funny and effective. If you are Singaporean, you'll definitely appreciate it. At first glance I thought it was just a local vendor trying too hard. But on hindsight, it looks like it was well researched. He clearly wanted to reach a local car-owning male audience, and there's nothing better than a sexy girl washing a car.

What's also interesting is that this video would never make it on to local TV as a commercial, but on YouTube, it's a hit!

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Restaurant finder augmented reality iPhone app

Fantastic stuff. Can't wait to get my hands on this app.

buUuk is an iPhone restaurant finder for Asia, Australasia and the Middle East. Here's a sneek preview of some Augmented Reality features in the next version.
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SGnews

I was inspired by the use of Twitter by news agencies such as CNN, BBC, and even our local ChannelNews Asia and wanted to take this innovative usage to the next level by adding multiple sources of Singapore news in a single Twitter stream.

Since there wasn’t a consolidated Twitter stream of Singapore news, I decided to create http://twitter.com/sgnews with the help of TwitterFeed and a collection of the best RSS-able Singapore news sources.

How it works:

  1. I collected a good bunch of RSS feeds from The Straits Times, ChannelNews Asia, The Business Times, TODAY, Tomorrow.sg, and Topix.
  2. I put this pump these RSS feeds into TwitterFeed which automatically and periodically updates http://twitter.com/sgnews with a nice clean stream of the most current news.
  3. Each news story's webpage is shortened and tracked with SnipURL.
  4. Users can follow http://twitter.com/sgnews to get the most up-to-date news on Singapore from the best local sources.

I created SGnews as a personal tool to get the news I wanted, but if you like it and find it helpful too, feel free to Follow SGnews on Twitter. Also, if you believe there are other good feeds to add, do let me know in the comments.

Have fun and tell your friends!

(This is a repost of my original, but since I've moved blog, I thought I'd recreate it here so users of SGnews can have an understanding of this project)

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The Blogathon's success

To have trolls come out and attack a marketing gig is a clear sign that it's being noticed. Having worked in PR, I've seen my fair share of campaigns and to have such a troll is rare. If you told any other agency that you have to do a campaign with Tangs, Lenovo, and Intel with bloggers in Singapore, I wonder what they'd come up with. I admire Ogilvy for making this happen because it's an experiment. Did it improve sales for any of the clients? Probably not. Did it get noticed, most definitely.

This seems to be a mindset found in advertising. Examples such as Cadbury Gorilla are totally out of the norm and didn't make any impact on sales really, but it did get noticed. It is refreshing to see creativity pumped into the PR industry.

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