China Blogging Tour

Learning Chinese via Skype and podcasts

Was bemoaning my lack of progress at learning Chinese. And then was reminded of ChinesePod when I saw that it was written up in The Economist in an article titled Mandarin 2.0. I'm going to try again!

Co-founder Ken Carroll tells The Economist this is "language-learning 2.0."

“Tens of millions” of people in 110 countries now download the free ChinesePod podcasts, Praxis's flagship service, says Mr Carroll. About 250,000 listen regularly and “several thousand” pay for the premium services, which include individual Skype chats with teachers.
- from The Economist (June 7, 2007)

Overdue update: Guanxi: The China Letter and our tentative tour dates

I'm delighted to report that Guanxi: The China Letter (a newsletter published by Karen Christensen's Berkshire Publishing Group) is informally sponsoring the upcoming China Blogging Tour.

Apologies for the long absence in posting. Philippe and I have been busy with other stuff. But we realize that October will be upon us soon so we're starting to actively plan our trip.

tentative Dates are Oct. 14 - Oct. 26, 2007. (We'll both be on a panel at Ad-Tech Beijing on Wednesday Oct. 17th at 4.25 PM: How to Develop a Corporate Social Media Platform.)

Pros & Cons of Corporate Blogging, Social Media, RSS, etc.

If you know of a company, group or business school in Beijing or Shanghai that would be interested in a presentation by Philippe and me during those dates, please contact one or both of us immediately.

Reach Debbie at wordbiz AT gmail DOT com or debbie.weil AT gmail DOT com.

Reach Philippe at philippe.borremans AT gmail DOT com.