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Sunday, June 17, 2012
Suu Kyi: Nobel Prize 'made me real once again'
Cathal Mcnaughton / Reuters
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi signs a book at the Nobel Institute after a meeting with the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo on Saturday.
By msnbc.com news services
Updated at 8:40 a.m ET: OSLO, Norway --?Myanmar opposition leader and international democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi finally accepted her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Saturday after spending a total of 15 years under house arrest. ?
In the speech, Suu Kyi said full political freedom in her country was still a long way off, and?talked about the isolation she felt during the years under house arrest. She said the prize had "made me real once again ? it had drawn attention to the struggle for democracy in Burma," according to Germany's Deutsche Welle.
Suu Kyi, the Oxford University-educated daughter of General Aung San, Myanmar's assassinated independence hero, also advocated caution about transformation in Myanmar, whose quasi-civilian government continues to hold political prisoners.?
"Absolute peace in our world is an unattainable goal," Suu Kyi said in her acceptance speech during her first trip to Europe in nearly 25 years.?
"Hostilities have not ceased in the far north; to the west, communal violence resulting in arson and murder were taking place just several days before I started out the journey that has brought me here today," she said.
Large crowds welcome Suu Kyi as she travels Thailand during world tour
"There still remain such prisoners in Burma. It is to be feared that because the best known detainees have been released, the remainder, the unknown ones, will be forgotten," Suu Kyi, 66, told a packed Oslo City Hall.?
A day earlier, she arrived from Switzerland to a jubilant reception as dancing and chanting crowds filled Oslo's streets and showered her with flowers.?
Suu Kyi never left Myanmar even during brief periods of freedom after 1989, afraid the military would not let back in.?
Her sons, Kim and Alexander had accepted the Nobel prize on her behalf in 1991, with her husband Michael Aris also attending the ceremony. A year later Suu Kyi announced she would use the $1.3 million prize money to establish a health and education trust for Burmese people.?
She was unable to be with Aris, an Oxford academic, when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and died in Britain in 1999.?
Earlier, Norwegian government leaders said they have eagerly awaited Saturday's speech at Oslo City Hall since Suu Kyi won the world's highest diplomatic honor in 1991. But Suu Kyi said she never doubted that she would travel one day to Oslo to give her honorific lecture.
"Yes of course, I always believed that. That's why I have always said that the first time I traveled abroad I would come to Norway," she said in answer to a reporter's question. "I never doubted that. Did you?"
Switzerland was the first stop on a planned two-week tour of Europe also taking in Ireland, Britain and France. The journey is her first in Europe since 1988, the year she left her husband and two young sons in England to visit her ill mother back home -- and became the focal point for the country's nascent democracy movement.
Before accepting the prize, a tired-looking, rarely smiling Suu Kyi appeared to be recovering from falling ill on Thursday.
"We are not at the end of the road, by no means, we are just starting out," she said on Friday.?
She both warned that her country's political transformation was not irreversible and the military had to give up its excessive powers and?rejected a suggestion that her aim was to dismantle the military.?
"I have never thought that I was doing anything against the military, I've always said I want the military, the army to be an honorable, professional army that is respected by the people," Suu Kyi said at a press conference with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg on Friday.
Myanmar refugees flee in rickety boats after sectarian clashes
"I fight against what is dangerous for the democratic process and the military having the kind of powers that they shouldn't have certainly endangers the democratic process," said Suu Kyi.
For the first time in nearly a quarter century, Myanmar's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has left her country for a journey overseas, first to Bangkok and later to Europe. NBC's Ian Williams reports.
Suu Kyi's 17-day European trip has been clouded by sectarian violence between Rakhine Buddhists and stateless Muslim Rohingyas, testing Myanmar's 15-month-old government.
On Friday, a fragile peace held in the wake of days of that has stoked nationalist fervor and displaced 30,000 people and killed 29 by government accounts.
The government has made peace and unity among Myanmar's many ethnic groups its mantra and has struck ceasefire deals with minority Karen, Shan, Mon and Chin rebels, among others, after decades of hostilities.
But there is entrenched, long-standing animosity between Rakhine Buddhists and around 800,000 Muslim Rohingyas, who mostly live in abject conditions and who still do not possess citizenship.
Reuters, The Associated Press and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.
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Saturday, June 16, 2012
How Energy Drink Company GungHo Tapped the Power of ...
In interviewed GungHo energy drink company?s Danny Mason about their successful product launch. I was looking for a story about Pinterest and video, happened on their press release and stumbled on a great story. The company made a profit despite giving away free product because friends of friends signed up for the company?s autoship program.
Images are Shared More than Video
With the rise of Pinterest and Instamgram, image sharing has become one of the biggest social media trends of the year?video and YouTube, less so. According to StruckAxiom, images are shared 11 times more often than video.
Videos Not Getting Pinned
Pinterest lets you pin videos from Vimeo and YouTube. However, looking through the top brands or categories on Pinterest you won?t find a lot of videos being pinned or repinned. Even in the video category there are almost no videos with more than a single repin.
An example of the weakness of video on Pinterest is the beauty retailer Birchbox. On Pinterest, Birchbox has over 22,000 followers for it?s unboxing video board, but unfortunately they do not have more than a single repin on any of their videos.
With these numbers, it might be surprising to know that Birchbox does well on YouTube. They have over 11,000 active subscribers on their YouTube channel, and close to a million views. Yet, when these same videos are pinned, the Pinterest community doesn?t visibly engage (though, undoubtedly their Pinterest fans help their overall YouTube viewing numbers).
Reasons Video is Not Shared as Often as Images
Mason, co-founder of GungHo, sites 3 possible reasons for why people don?t share videos as often as images:
- People are not sure what the video is before they click it.
- People are not sure what their time commitment will be to watch the video.
- People are not sure they will want to share the video.
Aware of the challenges of getting people to share video, Danny found a way to combine video marketing with Pinterest marketing.
Tapping into YouTube Communities to Drive Social Sharing
Instead of incentivizing people to pin videos on Pinterest and hoping for the best, Danny tapped into the power of a YouTube community. They invited YouTube viewers to go to a landing page for a special offer for sharing their funny ninja images (ninjas are a big part of GungHo?s brand).
GungHo initially thought they were marketing to a younger male demographic, which fit best with YouTube. Their focus was on college students who want extra energy to get through their finals and college courses.
GungHo looked for a YouTube celebrity that could reach both men and women. They found the husband and wife duo, Charles and Ally Trippy. The couple agreed to do a video review of the product. Danny provided an exclusive deal to the Trippy audience, giving free samples to the first 5,000 people to respond.
The Trippy?s shared how they were fans of the ?world?s only energy shot with Ninja-like focus? ?and then provided the exclusive offer to their 760,000 plus viewers. Within 7 hours GungHo had given out all of their 5,000 free samples, beating Orabrush?s YouTube marketing record that moved 10,000 free samples in ten days.
Yet, the success of this launch really wasn?t about how quickly GungHo gave out free samples, or even the power of the Trippy?s YouTube community. The true magic came when all of the Trippy fans hit the GungHo landing page.
Providing Images and Incentives for Sharing
On the landing page people could choose several funny ninja images to share on social sites including Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest. To entice people to share, the GungHo group promised to provide additional free samples or a steep discount if someone bought product after clicking on one of their ninja images.
The second wave of sharing brought down their website for over an hour. As unfortunate as a crashed website is on a product launch, the massive amount of response GungHo received ?provided some great insights.
Women Engage with Brands More than Men
The first insight they gained was that women were more gung ho than men about sharing on social media sites. According to Danny, almost 60% of the social engagement was from women.
Women also proved to be a valuable contribution to the campaign because they often added their personal endorsement with their shares. These findings made the team re-evaluate their strategy, which included a redesign of their packaging to make it more appealing to women.
?We learned our most vocal advocates are women. Men would just share to get the product. Women would add their comments about it, even though they didn?t have to. Men also tried to game the system? more than women did, stated Danny.
Women Chose to Share on Pinterest
Finally, Go GungHo learned the power of Pinterest. Even though more people used Facebook and Twitter to share, Pinterest users were more active in endorsing the energy shot. Due to this level of engagement, Pinterest outpaced the other social networks when it came to referral traffic.
Video is powerful, though it may not necessarily be in getting pins and repins on Pinterest. Instead, by tapping into the YouTube community Gungho was able to grow all of their social numbers, and get increased engagement from women ? on Pinterest in particular.
The funny images combined with an easy way to share resulted in growing their fan base on every network.
Key Campaign Stats:
- The GungHo webs site got 69,000 hits within hours. The 5000 free were gone in 23 minutes. The next 5000 (with discount) was gone in under 4 hour live up time (site was down for >1.5 hrs). After 40 minutes when site went down, they turned off the discount. With no barriers to sharing it spread too fast. Only Trippy?s fans got the discount after that.
- Of the 69,000, over 5,700 bought or got the free sample, but the company had to turn off the viral share piece because they lost money on the $10 discount if they chose the monthly auto-delivery option. They are convinced they would have been wiped out of product if Trippy?s fans? friends got the offer. Trippy?s fans friends just saw the funny image but did NOT get the offer.
- The buyers from the Trippy?s site was about 59% female.
- Men tended to share via Facebook and Twitter. The women, via Pinterest.
- Women shared their endorsement (comments from them vs our pre-populated text in the FB, twitter or Pinterest window). Less than 5% of the time men shared personal endorsement. Over 80% of the women did.
- Go GungHo got over 1300 new Twitter followers and over 1100 new FB fans in a matter of hours from the Trippy offer. They had almost zero following before (this was our launch campaign).
- The community loved the offer from the Trippys. They had over 80 tweets, posts or other comments from his fans thanking for the hook-up. We had over 60 comments / reviews on our fan-page (they offered a free 12-pack for the best review).
- 5778 customers total pinned their image before they turned off the offer. 3409 were women. 2292 of those women chose to pin vs. share on Facebook or Twitter (67% chose pinterest vs FB or twitter). They determined the sex of people sharing by looking at the name of the person.
Have any launch tips or stories of how you successfully leveraged social media or Pinterest? Please share in the comments.
Also look for my next post about GungHo tapping the power of press releases to get media coverage (and how we both got on TV).
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Friday, June 15, 2012
U.S., South Korea, Japan to Conduct Naval Exercise
South Korea News.Net
Thursday 14th June, 2012 (Source: Defense Link)
American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, June 14, 2012 ? The United States, South Korea and Japan will conduct a two-day, trilateral naval exercise June 21-22 in the waters south of the Korean Peninsula, the Pentagon announced in a news release issued yesterday.
The exercise will focus on improving interoperability and communications with the South Korean navy and the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force, which can facilitate cooperative dis... ...
Read the full story at Defense Link
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'Artist' Star Jean Dujardin Joins Scorsese's 'Wolf Of Wall Street'
Each casting announcement for "The Wolf of Wall Street," Martin Scorsese's follow-up to last year's "Hugo," adds prestige to the film and heightens our anticipation. The latest cast member to join the film is this year's Academy Award winner for Best Actor, Jean Dujardin. Variety is reporting that Dujardin is in talks to star opposite [...]
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