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This is the first time I managed to get a PR of one of the things I’m working on. And a little bit out of my expectation, a TV PR! While I was back in China last month, I had an opportunity to meet some TV people because one of my best friends just graduated and became a news reporter in Shantou’s local TV news reporter. Guanxi is important!
After the program showed, my phone rang again and again from friends and relatives. They were surprised to see me on TV, some of them didn’t even know I was back in China for vocation. And it goes without saying the PV of Shantou.net boots up during those days, and also numbers of comments people left. Still, TV is the most powerful media in China at the moment.
Actually we were originally asked them whether they are interested to give a report about our blog, they said yes and Maggie and I went. But then after meeting up with me and Maggie (a pretty blondy British lady), they said filming a blog with some words there is quite difficult, because there is not much movable things they can film, how about a little story about Maggie’s life in Shantou, because it’s more interesting and they were all impressed by Maggie’s Chinese. Well, getting such a good PR is not easy and we didn’t want to miss it, so we said yes. However Maggie still tried to emphasised the blog during her interview and asked them to put more content about the blog. After the interview, she told me she was surprised by how much the media listen to interviewees and made programs as we wished, this can never happen with western media. Oh well.
It seems MyShantou.net is getting more and more well-known now. Maybe we can do something about it as it gets more popular. Thinking…
Ps. if you are in China now, view this video through Tudou might be faster. Or you can also download it.
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-_-”” why do you still have time to update???
WRITE YOUR ESSAY!!! AND FINISH IT QUICKLY!
I am, kinda, almost, finish…ing.
Well done, my friend!
I am back to shantou for vacation now. Do you have the photos taken in guangzhou? I can’t find them in your blog, would you mail them to me?Thanks!
Wish MyShantou.net being better and better !
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Thank you! I’ve only got the one we took in a group, I will send you that.
That’s really cool…
and yes…as a Cantonese i am so proud of my identity…however, people who are not cantonese always have lots of wrong impression and misunderstandings to Guangdong and Cantonese, people outside China even dont know where Guangdong is, and actually many special Cantonese traditions and culture are dying out…what a shame!!!
what you are doing now is really meaningful and effective to contribute your hometown and our country…well done boy!!(see…what a bossy tone…sorry about that…lolx…but i really mean it!!)
Yes, like I said in the interview. Is the question that “Where you are from?” gives me inspiration and motivation. You can go anywhere in the world, but there is only one place is where you come from. To me, that’s the root!