{"id":139,"date":"2011-09-14T19:20:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T19:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2012-12-12T17:46:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T17:46:49","slug":"chinese-social-media-is-a-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/14\/chinese-social-media-is-a-jungle\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese social media is a jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After three-month using the Chinese social media almost daily, I can say I am somewhat an expert. \u65b0\u6d6aSina.com\uff08means new wave in English\uff09has a twitter equivalent called \u65b0\u6d6a\u5fae\u535aweibo (means small chat in English); \u4eba\u4ebarenren.com \uff08means everybody in English\uff09and \u817e\u8bafQQ also have a twitter equivalent \u5fae\u535aweibo. Facebook is not easily accessible by the Chinese people, however one can use any of the three medias I mentioned above to accomplish the same thing as Facebook or Twitter. All three Chinese medias have the capability to add friends, listen to friends\u2019 broadcast and follow friends. LinkedIn is widely used by professional Chinese people as well as professionals all over the world.<\/p>\n

Each media attracts different groups of people. For example, \u65b0\u6d6aSina.com is where professional Chinese people like to hang out; \u4eba\u4ebarenren.com is very popular among college students; \u817e\u8bafQQ is where everybody likes to hang out and of course it has the largest user base among all medias. Some people overlap these medias. Another media I eventually gave up is \u5f00\u5fc3kaixin.com (means happy in English), because this is the place where the Chinese people hang out and play games. I am not a game player. Knowing who frequent which media can help you decide which media is the best for your business. My business is travel and education focused; therefore anyone and everyone can be my customer, so I need to hang out in all three medias.<\/p>\n

In order to use the Chinese social media, of course you need to read and write in Chinese. And your customers are Chinese. You may wonder: how much time do you spend on managing these medias daily? The three Chinese medias plus weekly update on my LinkedIn and two or three times on my Facebook personal page and business page Mandarin International, together I have six sites to maintain frequently. I would say on the average I spend two to three hours daily if I have something to say. This does not include the time I spent on blogging where I have both an English blog and two Chinese blogs. If I have nothing to share, then I would not even bother to log in to these accounts.<\/p>\n

As I get more familiar with the user interfaces of all medias, I am getting quicker and better at it. Usually I write one Chinese twitter and copy it to all three Chinese social medias. It\u2019s funny that I really liked Chinese \u5fae\u535aweibo (twitter) even though I refuse to use Twitter in US here.<\/p>\n

Here is my sophisticated social media map:
\nBlogs:
\nEnglish – http:\/\/www.daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/
\nChinese – http:\/\/www.meilecheng.com\/blog\/ and http:\/\/blog.sina.com.cn\/u\/2163468803<\/p>\n

\u5fae\u535aWeibo (Chinese Twitter): search \u9648\u743c my Chinese on Sina.com, renren.com, and QQ\u3002<\/p>\n

LinkedIn: view my profile by searching Katie (Qiong) Dailey if you already have a LinkedIn account, otherwise view my public profile at http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/katieqiongdailey2008<\/p>\n

Facebook: you must log in first, then search Qiong Dailey for my personal page; or http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MandarinInternational for my business page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After three-month using the Chinese social media almost daily, I can say I am somewhat an expert. \u65b0\u6d6aSina.com\uff08means new wave in English\uff09has a twitter equivalent called \u65b0\u6d6a\u5fae\u535aweibo (means small chat in English); \u4eba\u4ebarenren.com \uff08means everybody in English\uff09and \u817e\u8bafQQ also have a twitter equivalent \u5fae\u535aweibo. Facebook is not easily accessible by the Chinese people, however one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[26,25],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-social-media","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-in-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}