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Author Archives: Alvin Singh

Content Is King In South Africa Conference

The second annual Integrated Marketing Communications Conference is taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa on June 6-7, 2011.  Presenting the latest trends in global media and innovative marketing to industry leaders this conference is where South Africa’s leading communication voices … Continue reading


An MCDM Alum Reflects from an Emerging Market

In 2007 I moved to Seattle, WA and found a tech savvy community in the Pacific Northwest. I found myself in the office of the Director of the MCDM Hanson Hosein and we began talking about the program, my background … Continue reading


MCDM-Inspired Music Panel at SXSW 2010

Every year, thousands of bands, bloggers, filmmakers, social media gurus and entrepreneurs come to the South By Southwest Music, Film and Interactive festival in Austin, Texas. When I joined the MCDM program in 2008 and heard about SXSW, I started … Continue reading


Only Retweet What You Like

  With the growing demand of Twitter accounts many users are begining to ask a lot of questions on how to send direct messages, gain more followers, and the code of ethics of retweeting an update.  The term retweet better … Continue reading


MTV Creates Social Media TV Show

In response to low prime time ratings, multimedia giant MTV is now creating a live talk show that uses various social media platforms during the program.  Advertisers were convinced that this would be MTVs biggest daytime talk show since TRL … Continue reading


iPhone App Allows You To Record In The Field

    Have you ever been somewhere and wanted to know what the name of a song was but could not figure out the name of it. Or maybe you wanted to record an interview or joke but did not … Continue reading


How Flickr Became A Matchmaker?

The transformation of digital photography from film changed the way people created and shared pictures.  With a Flickr account today you can share images instantly and embed the entire photo album on a website or social network.  In a recent … Continue reading


Indian Farmers Demand More Mobile Phones

During global economic crisis many industries are suffering with low sells and decreasing growth. A recent article from the Wall Street Journal highlights the rise of mobile phone users in India climbing to a record 11 million subscribers this past … Continue reading


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