Read the headline again. Isn’t it crazy that in the 2020s your corporate communications team is going to have to grapple with such strange media enquiries. The apps to create such videos are already available. Worse, you are going to field calls from pranksters extorting ransoms in exchange for not releasing such videos.
Singapore's fast internet and cloud hub status has a dark side: it is increasingly the place from which malicious DDoS attacks are carried out. So says our nominee for Best Broadcast Interview in the Hong Bao Media Savvy Awards 2019, Wai Kit Cheah.
Weaving a good story in a live radio interview can be tough, but our nominee of the Hong Bao Media Savvy Awards 2019 this week made it look easy.
Climate change is forcing organisations to rethink how they do business. Instead of sending their executives on overseas trips, companies will be “flight shamed”. But business must go on, so many will turn to live webcasting. But are you ready to get in front of the camera?
My clients for media skills and executive presence training are almost exclusively senior business and government leaders. But when National University of Singapore asked me a few years ago to coach their top MBA students, I accepted. The opportunity to contribute to the development of future business and government leaders was too good to pass up.
Fast forward six years, and we have added Nany
You've heard of co-working spaces, now co-living appears to be the in thing of this generation. There is rising demand for community living spaces due to low housing affordability. Our shortlisted candidate for the Hong Bao Media Savvy Awards 2019 in the Best Broadcast Interview category this week appeared was all about co-living spaces in Singapore.
Widespread downsizing and increasing use of technology is forcing workers over the age of 40 to look for a job. Our nominee this week, Adrian Choo, showcases his agility, both for his radio interview and the careers of his listeners.
Please can we retire "Before I start" from keynote presenters' vocabularies. Fact is, when you say these words, by definition you've already started! Here are some of the most egregious abuses of the phrase. And some replacement options.
The 2020s will see more smart machines such as house cleaning robots, self-driving cars and autonomous drones. What are the implications for us mere mortals?
So, apparently we're all going to be replaced by machines and Artificial Intelligence. Okay, maybe not so soon. But what can people do better than machines? And isn't it high time we learnt those skills.
Single-use plastic is a serious climate change hazard, but listeners to Money FM 89.3 were lucky to have Lena Tan explain to them in her radio interview why it is so difficult to reduce plastics.
One in four young people refrain from showing kindness in public because they fear being embarrassed or mocked, according to the Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM) Graciousness Survey 2019. Our shortlisted candidate for Hong Bao Media Savvy Awards 2019 this week presented the findings on Money FM 89.3.
