Thailand Media News

We are all social creatures, and the desire to have cosmetic surgery performed on us is, to a certain level or another, a part of that social necessity.

Language Open Learning announces launch of the second phase of the virtual Learn English Online Video Course which has around 300 English video lessons is now available in Spanish making it easily accessible for users in Spain and South America.

Michael Earle of Think Design Magazine interviews Map Abday a local artist in Phuket Thailand. She is a successful artist who's abstract pieces have been sought after by renowned art collectors.

Michael Earle of Think Design Magazine interviews Phuket's artist Daling Rivera, who has had the fortune to travel which she uses as inspiration for her incredible sculptures.

Siam Gazette will launch its latest news offering in October 2011. "Bangkok Business Brief" is a free monthly aggregation of all news related to and relevant for Bangkok, keeping Thailand's business people and foreign residents fully informed.

Travel-Writers-Exchange.com is a community of travel writers, bloggers, and journalists. We exchange tools, tips, and resources, and provide a forum to help our community expand their online reach and find new opportunities.

TrueVisions, the Thai satellite and cable TV operator, has announced it will be expand its high definition (HD) TV services in Phuket.

Two marketing companies, KPT Social Media from Asia and EFT-Global from Europe are joining in partnership to provide a comprehensive marketing brand and service for international businesses.

AT Group’s recent organising of free social media clinics for selected Bangkok businesses have been very well received with some of Thailand biggest events organisers in attendance.

Athena Digital Media is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the website contract for High Peak International, A Luxury Homes and Real Estate company located in Cebu City, Philippines.

AT Group in association with Paul Poole (South East Asia) Co., Ltd and KPT Social Media held their long awaited Social Media for Events clinics in Bangkok on 25 May and was warmly received by all delegates

Chiang Rai Rajabhat University, Ms Yingluck and Pheu Thai’s candidates for constituency MPs addressed about 20,000 supporters.

Selected event organisers and business in Bangkok were invited to register for free two hour marketing clinics which have now been filled

AT Group have co-ordinated three of Bangkok's top businesses to provide a special free two hour one-on-one online marketing plan for events to selected businesses.

Top businesses in Bangkok have joined together to offer free online marketing advice to selected businesses in Bangkok in May 2011.

The introduction of Google's recent Panda update changed its search engine algorithm with a view to diminishing a site's ranking that provide "low-quality content" and the end of using RSS feeds as part of a site's content.

SEO South Africa is also pleased to announce the launch their SEO website in direct support of Google's Incubator project, so as to offer discounted high-quality web design services, incorporating SEO assistance to the startups.

DirectRooms.com reports that a conference being held in Brussels in May will be reviewing the latest technology to be employed by companies with mobile workforces and showcasing the best ways to most effectively use these innovations.

Isn't it somehow absurd that social media usurped tyranny in the Maghreb and the Middle East and that Facebook toppled Hosni Mubarak in the ten days that shook the world. Isn't the real cause youth unemployment and the economic crisis aided by media?

It is being claimed throughout many news sites that the fireworks that lit Cairo's skies and the joyous tears of the protesters which celebrated the end of ex-President Hosni Mubarak's 30 years of despotic rule, is curiously all down to Facebook.

Peter Shankman -an entrepreneur, author, speaker, and worldwide connector who is recognized worldwide for radically new ways of thinking about Social Media, PR, marketing, advertising, creativity, and customer service, will be in Bangkok in February.

In "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles Mackay, he treated many psychic states as that of the economically hackneyed word of today, "random"; the new bubble meme of demographic herds.

"WaterMicronWorld- Lao announced today that it has instituted special installment financing plans for the purchase of its line of Atmospheric Water Generators (AWGs)"

Taking its online presence further, the Rembrandt Hotel Bangkok also launched its first ever online ‘Room Sale’ through a variety of social media channels, including Facebook and Twitter.

#twitterjoketrial is one of many currently trending topics on Twitter, on how the UK justice system is convicted people for tweeting. The Guardian wrote last week that arrests, convictions and libel claims look like tweeting has lost its innocence.

Google is to give $5 million dollars to organisations trying to find innovative ways to continue the practice of journalism. Estimates of traffic to News International sites' front pages has declined by 43% and the number viewing stories by 88%.

In this week's Economist, it expounds on the future of the internet. They argue that there is a virtual counter-revolution in the making, one that has powerful forces of fragmentation that are "threatening to balkanise it". I don't agree.

An article in The Guardian newspaper claims that Rupert Murdoch’s online version of the Times is losing “almost 90% of [its] online readership”. Transposing business models of print media into online deserves an unrighteous kick in the pants

With some of Bangkok’s top businesses attending Advanced Training Groups social media workshops – the focus has turned to effective email marketing.

With the success of the latest of Social Networking workshops, Bangkok based firm Advanced Training Group are throwing the Social Networking net further afield with roadshows in Bangkok, Pattaya and Phuket. Ken Thorkildsen looks at the phenomenon.

Social Networking is getting ready to jump through a major hoop which sure to make it a must have tool for the next generation of business owners eagerly standing by watching the evolution of this new marketing tool... ....AT GROUP look closer

New PR and Marketing business launch in Phuket, Thailand.

In TechCrunch's “The Madness of King Rupert” by Paul Carr he reports, incredulously, that News International is to install a turnstile on its websites this June and wonders whether Murdoch is simply a barking latter-day George III or visionary.

WaterMicronWorld AWG-50 unit’s functions with no external electricity. Saves 3,000 watts per gallon. Our design and control system allows it to efficiently extract water from air where electric AWG units become inefficient or do not work at all.

Steve Jobs, Apple Inc's visionary CEO, may not be in the same league as Moses, but he has the potential to solve the current media crisis with Apple's most innovative development: the iPad. But is it a Tablet delivered from on high or a dud?

The Phoney War was the description given to first few months in World War II following the German invasion of Poland, marked by a lack of military operations in Europe. The same could perhaps be said of News Corp in 2009.

Following all the shenanigans of late about News Corp threatening to put their content behind paywalls and blocking Google from using its content, the last few days have seen them courting Microsoft where their content would only be found on Bing.

Millennium Resort Patong Phuket becomes "the" celebrity holiday hangout of the Bangkok International

In a spin-off to the ongoing saga to restrict access to newspaper publishing on the web, Lord Mandelson, the British business secretary, set April 2011 as the start date in a campaign to block and criminalise illegal online filesharing in the UK.

For over ten years now, when publishers first started to put their content online for free, there has been an almost continuous and fractious chorus of discontent about "giving news away for free". But will charging for content actually work?

The Iranian election in June this year has been used as a key source of analysis for the comparison between social and traditional media in providing up-to-the-minute reporting on world events.

Tourism Authority of Thailand is now on Facebook and Twitter , to expand tourists in online social network community.

On Sunday, 9th August 2009, The Observer published a piece on how Rupert Murdoch will charge for online news content next year and, in so doing so, is set to shed costs and generate revenue for News Corp. So, what are the consequences of this?

In a recent report by Peter Horrocks, Director of BBC World Service, it is clear that as society becomes more networked, the fortress mentality of the mainstream media is increasingly under siege by the internet.

According to Search Engine Watch, most executive management teams don't yet understand the cost-effectiveness and potential profitability of employing search engine marketing companies.

ASEAN Affairs recently added Mr. Martin Seto, a seasoned Advertising and Publishing Executive to handle Ad Sales and Marketing in the Americas.

The finance chiefs of the members of Asean are meeting with their counterparts from three Asian economic powerhouses (Japan, China, South Korea) to implement precautionary measures to avoid the region to fall deeper into severe financial meltdown.

Thailand’s Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and US President Barack Obama have a few things in common. They are both youthful, and they both are facing great challenges to revive ailing economies.

Dutch News blog master Drasties planning on sending shoes to arrested Iraqi journalist.

Athena Digital Media Company Limited is pleased to announce that it has finished all the formal requirements of registering a company in Thailand and is now accepting new business