Mr. Sean Lin SHKIM, MBA, DIM MSc, CISA, CISSP, CISM, ProM,
Hong Kong Ten Outstanding Young Persons Awardee 2006
Corporate Communications Committee Chairperson
1) External Affairs
Relationship with press and professional bodies
Corporate Communications Committee has actively participated in more than 100external marketing related functions organized by different associations, including interviews by television and radio broadcast, monographin different newspapers, participating as co-organizer, supporting organization, judge, honourable speaker in seminars and events, the relationship between HKIM and these professional marketing bodies was greatly enhanced.
Brand management talk
In April, we have invited Joseph Baladi, a reputable guest speaker from Singapore, to deliver a talk on brand management. As an expert who is used to providing consultation services to many international brands, Joseph shared his views on Asian brands during the talk. The feedback was extremely well and Joseph was delighted to come again and work on a more intensive workshop on branding.
2) Internal Affairs
Periodicals
The content has been enriched and upgraded continuously in our monthly e-newsletter “WhassssUP” and the Quarterly Newsletter “Marketing Excellence”. New elements are added by different authors, regardless of database processing, the hottest or the new trends in marketing and so on, are
very fascinating and certainly. Itwill bring a new inspiration for our members.
Social Media
The HKIM FaceBook, blogs and Website will continue to be updated with the latest and most exciting marketing information, the highlights and development of HKIM activities in the near future, every member can have more interactions through this platform.
HKIM Toastmaster Club
The HKIM Toastmaster Club was established in a lively atmosphere last year. Monthly regular meeting of the Club is 1st and 3rd Thursday .Honorable guests were invited to give valuable comment for each participant, members are well-learned and getting excited. A new term of Committee has been elected in June with Mr. Richard Tang as our new President.
3) Awards
HKIM Brand Conscience Award
The 3rdHKIM BrandConscience Award (HKIM-BC Award) is recognizing outstanding brandand company decision makers doing business with ethic;encouragingthe commercial sector to create 'Aconscience city' in Hong Kong. The Third BC Award will be jointly held with SGS Hong Kong who will make the assessment process more systematic. The criteria, including the performance in caring the customers, the industry, the community and the society, are definitely more stringent than in the past.Award Presentation Ceremony will be held in June, 2012,in association with the celebration of our 30th Anniversary.
The 3rd HKIM-BC Award is scheduled to kick-off in summer; we hope more companieswill join the rank of conscience brand to drive Hong Kong become a superior city.