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To all our digerati friends, we hope you can join us for another Open Room chat ‘n chill session ‘cuz we’ve got Rohit coming to spend a couple of days with us. The face behind the award-winning Influential Marketing Blog needs little introduction, and will be coming to town fresh off a stint in Beijing, where he’s been busy for the last few days at the Olympics, doing some pretty neat stuff with Lenovo’s Olympic Blogger Program (I’m so envious).

When: Monday, August 18 @7pm (yes it’s happening real soon!)
Where: The Ogilvy Centre, 35 Robinson Road, Level 3
RSVP: Drop me an email ASAP so I can save a seat for you

Rohit recently launched his book, Personality Not Included, which is full of practical advice for brands looking to regain their human voice. PNI’s been steadily climbing the charts and was recently chosen by Soundview Book Summaries as their best business book for the month of August (a big honor considering the thousands of new books they evaluate a year). Join the PNI Facebook group for updates.

For the Twitter-mad, follow Rohit at Twitter (watch out for the mad chicken wallpaper!)

Verge Singapore is a one-day event that happens this Friday, May 23 from 9am - 6pm at CHIJMES. There’s a variety of sessions touching a range of topics from mobile marketing to social networking, and I’m hoping to land some blogger invitations from the organizers. Email me if you’re interested in attending.

Highlights of some of the 45-minute sessions:

• 12 TENETS OF DIGIMARKETING - Kent Wertime, President, OgilvyOne Asia Pacific
• CHANGING MEDIA - Panel discussion with folks from the Asia-Pacific offices of Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft
• THE 4 E’S OF MARKETING - Christopher Graves, President & CEO Asia Pacific, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide
• BLOGGER PERSPECTIVES - Panel discussion with Singapore’s very own Michael Netzley, Vanessa Tan, Walter Lim and Nicholas Khoo

John Bell, who was recently in Singapore for the launch of The Open Room, contributed this Verge post.

Look out for more updates (pictures included) when Verge Singapore goes LIVE this Friday.