Following in the emerging trend, large international companies are now becoming active participants in social media like their consumers. A recent Burson-Marsteller study found that 79 percent of the largest 100 companies in the Fortune Global 500 index are using at least one of the most popular social media platforms: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or corporate blogs……

The Economist recently issued a special report on social networking. The report, A World of Connections, provides a clear and high-level overview of the development/status of social networking sites and how they impact brand advertising, corporate internal communication, small business, talent search & recruitment, and privacy……

Twitter is more than a web tool for us. Although it is blocked in China, government still cannot stop it becoming a must-have social community which enable people to quickly and simply share info and interact with others via networking, micro-blogging, following, “@” replying, and so on.

Two Chinese web savvy Riku and Youthfilm have collaborated and created a “Twitter Notebook” so as to extend the online experience of Twitter to offline. The idea is about encouraging people to put tweets on a notebook……

Johnson & Johnson is attempting to create a solar eclipse online to promote its Neutrogena Ultra Sheer sun block product across the region. This DDB Singapore-developed project, SunStopper, will claim the century’s longest and most dramatic total solar eclipse on the morning of July 22 in China, India and Japan.

However, 75% social media assets in this campaign are turned off in China due to the the Chinese Internet Censorship, while China is the major region to witness this phenomenon and the main target of this campaign……