Sunday, February 22, 2009

Facebook Murders - Original Movie Plot

1/3 FB Movie - John is a youth who gets ridiculed becos he is a Loner who does not have many friends. He opens a FB account & starts adding

2/3 FB Movie - people. He wants 2 have many contacts, tho he does not know them. He then hears the news of a mysterious death & recognises

3/3 FB Movie - him as his FB contact! Deaths follow the sequence of his contact addition. He tries to locate his NEXT FB contact, but how..?

Twittered The Movie

1/3 Movie plot - Twitterer discovers that another unknown T posts exact same messages WITHIN 12 hours of his posting, in the same sequence!

2/3 Movie plot - One day, original T does not post and discovers that unknown T posts about his desire to kill his wife becos of a suspected

3/3 Movie plot - affair. He rushes home 2 find wife murdered in the kitchen. Unknown T's account can't b accessed! <>

Thursday, February 19, 2009

How Business Should View Twitter

Twitter is a free micro-blogging site that allows up to 140 characters. It has yet to incorporate any visible form of revenue-generation. However, it member-growth is quite explosive and there are a number of applications that support it

How should you utilise it?

1) For starters create for yourself! Ensure that your Twitter name is memorable and reflects your company's online branding presence.

2) Encourage your business peers to create one too :) If your company is called "OPL", you can name it oplthomaslee for a person named Thomas Lee. Thus there is an online presence for OPL

3) The 140 character requirement (140cr) could be quite cumbersome but u can use http://www.tinyurl.com to shorten the website address. The 140cr is also very useful for people who are used to text-messaging.

4) Search for people who are on Twitter using search. There are a number of famous people here (besides President Obama).

5) Locate their websites, blogs and send an introductory message. I have also connected with a number of Twitter friends through Facebook.

6) Get to know people who follow you on Twitter...they are an important source of market research and networking. The strength of Twitter is its laid back and honest atmosphere. People are quite willing to provide genuine and useful feedback for your company's products.

7) Learn how to promote your company to the large Twitter community. Do not just broadcast about your services. Share knowledge and you will be perceived as a subject-expert.

Best wishes

The Mentoring Board Game - as it stands...

This is the rough look of my mentoring board game. It has 4 levels

Level1: The Big Idea
Level2: Business Plan
Level3: The Pitch & Get Funded
Level4: IPO

The objective is to get from Level1-4.
I will create a series of scenarios and a team of guest judges will decide.

The marketing value of the board game for corporate training is that the scenarios can be customised to suit the specific situation of the training participants.

I am looking for people who are interested to take this idea to the next step and help create scenarios.