Singaporean startup Media Pop has launched a new service that makes it easier for brands, either big or small, to set up a social media campaign on Facebook. Its social marketing dashboard is, the startup says, a useful way for a company to engage users more effectively, with custom apps for offering giveaways and other enticements. The Media Pop service has four main apps that it then injects into the ‘Facebook Page’ of a brand: giveaways, vouchers, and photo and video competitions. And then all of this is managed mostly from ...
MediaPop App-ifies Facebook Pages With Its Social Marketing Dashboard
bySteven MillwardinAsia, Social Media, Startups, Web
US Embassy’s Facebook Fans Jump as Obama Prepares to Visit Indonesia

The Facebook page of the US Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia’s saw quite an increase in fans on Thursday, gaining as many as 13,899 fans overnight. An increase of 4.17% made the Facebook page the fastest-growing among all the categories in the Facebook Directory on SalingSilang. Obama’s imminent visit to Indonesia is the probable reason behind the quick growth of the Facebook page. The U.S president plans to visit several countries in nine days, and will go to Bali on November 18th to attend the East Asia Summit. To commemorate this, the US Embassy in ...
Indonesian Party Looks To Social Media To Win General Election

byRatri AdityaraniinAsia, Creative
Indonesia's general election will take place in 2014, but already one of the biggest political parties in the country, Golkar, has laid out its plan to utilize social media sites - such as its Facebook page - to win votes. As we have said many times, Indonesia ranks among the top social media countries in Asia, and indeed the world -- so it is understandable that Golkar will try to win over the nation’s netizens. Sharif Cicip Sutardjo, the Golkar deputy chairman, looked at potential voters between 25 and 45 years ...
Train Accident Victims Identified with Facebook’s Help in India

Three dead bodies were identified by their family members when their photographs were uploaded onto Facebook by a government official. The Times of India reports that the people identified were said to be missing since the recent Kalka Mail (express train) accident in India in which over 80 people died near Kanpur, a city in North India. It seems that no one had contacted the government officials claiming the bodies and so the official used Facebook, to get the bodies identified quickly by family members. It must be noted that India ...
Facebook Chat With Singapore Prime Minister Lee Set For Tonight

byWillis WeeinAsia, Video, Web
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will participate in an interactive online chat via the People’s Action Party's (PAP) Facebook Page this evening from 8 to 9pm, local time. The aim of the chat, as explained by PM Lee himself, is to discuss various issues related to the general election and to give voters a direct communication channel. He also said that the Young PAP and cyber enthusiasts have encouraged him to set up this live chat to engage with Singaporean netizens. Thus far the Singapore general election has been marked by an unusual ...
How To: Set Up A Professional Facebook Page

bySarah ChonginUncategorized
Facebook is huge in most countries, and definitely catching up in the others. For that very reason, companies are choosing to set up a Facebook page to promote themselves. But how do you make your Facebook page stand out? Setting up a Facebook page is easy, but making it professional is another story. If you are a beginner who is not satisfied with default tabs, and wordy content, I hope this post would help shred some light! But of course, I am not a pro myself. Part of my work in India ...
TOP STORIES

Cazbak Partners With Giant E-commerce Sites, Gives Savings to Consumers in India
Feb 8, 2012

Perx’s ‘Chop Mob’ Helps Coffee Bean Increase 50% in Transaction
Feb 8, 2012
![Japan’s Social Giants: Trends in User Numbers [CHART]](http://www.penn-olson.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/IMG_5437-80x80.jpg)
Japan’s Social Giants: Trends in User Numbers [CHART]
Feb 8, 2012

CyberAgent Ventures Invests in Vietnamese Music Service
Feb 7, 2012

DropMySite.com Backups Your Website, Email, and Database in the Cloud
Feb 8, 2012
ADVERTISEMENT
- Infographic
- Videos
- Every 60 Seconds On the Chinese Internet… [INFOGRAPHIC]
- Singapore’s Social, Smartphone-Luvvin’ Citizens [INFOGRAPHIC]
- Web, Smartphones, and Social Media are Thriving in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau [INFOGRAPHIC]
- Samsung Dominates Android in China, But Tablets Growing Less Popular [INFOGRAPHIC]
- LinkedIn Advises Users to Banish CV Buzzwords – Here’s Your Top 10, Singapore [INFOGRAPHIC]
- Who Needs PCs? Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos Opt For the Mobile Web [INFOGRAPHIC]
- Social and Mobile, This is How India Enjoys the Internet [INFOGRAPHIC]
- The Ubiquity of Social Media and E-Commerce in China [INFOGRAPHIC]
- A Portrait of Indonesia’s Very Young, Social, Mobile Web Users [INFOGRAPHIC]
- How Asia is Going Social, Mobile, on the Web [INFOGRAPHIC]
- Starbucks and Jiepang Hook-Up Single Users for Valentine’s Promo
- A Review of the Xiaomi M1 [VIDEO]
- Apple’s Siri Can’t Understand Chinese [VIDEO]
- The Chinese Internet Takes an Arrow in the Knee
- Enter the Dragon, With Rumored Chinese New Year Update for Angry Birds Seasons [VIDEO]
- Japanese iPhone App Kamiwaza Multiplies Your Money
- Top 10 YouTube Videos in Singapore in 2011, Yam Ah Mee Included
- Asia Tech Tour Episode 2: Youku.com from China [VIDEO]
- If You Feel Like an LG Optimus, Go and Brush Your Shoulders Off
- Samsung’s Flexible Display [VIDEO]







