Most sought speakers - March 2008

Largest jumper: Paul Denlinger on 4

The end of March is nearing and that is traditionally the moment to publish the most-sought speakers according to Google Analytics of Chinabiz Speakers in March. The top positions remain unchanged, but in the number of points Shaun Rein is clearly closing in on Tom Doctoroff, after Shaun showed up in the February listing for the first time. Shaun has been rather quiet at the beginning of the year, but he has this great way of putting himself in the limelight through the more traditional media.
Biggest jump from de lower ranks into the fourth position has been made by Paul Denlinger. He had been missing from earlier listings, although he is becoming increasingly an well-known online critic of how companies do business in China. I expect this is because his fame is mostly rising in the vocal online community, while traditional media forces are still more influential, as the case of Shaun Rein shows.
The rest of the list looks pretty stable, but the differences at the bottom of the list with speakers who just fell out of the top-10 are not that huge. We find there big shots like Rowan Gibson, Arthur Kroeber and Kaiser Kuo.
For the coming month a few predictions. Rupert Hoogewerf will do even better. His efforts of tracing China's rich will enter its tenth year, as he told me a few days ago. That will create a lot of extra activities and publicity. And, yes, next month I do think that Shaun Rein will take the first place.

The March top 10 (February in brackets)

1. Tom Doctoroff (1)
2. Shaun Rein (2)
3. Zhang Jun (4)
4. Paul Denlinger (-)
5. Radha Chadha (7)
6. Warren Liu (-)
7. Rupert Hoogewerf (10)
8. William Overholt (6)
9. Jeremy Goldkorn (8)
10. Bill Thompson (3)