Podcamp Montreal Recap & Where Are All The Youth?
September 21, 2008 – 1:40 am | by Daryl TayI’m attending Podcamp Montreal this weekend and so far it’s been awesome. I’ve met Mitch Joel and CC Chapman so far and hopefully many more soon to come.
Montreal: Podcamp Montreal Recap & Where Are The Youth? from Daryl Tay on Vimeo.Halfway through Mitch’s presentation I started wondering at the lack of college people at these events. Social Media Breakfast | Singapore may be an anomaly because it’s primarily youth-initiated, but generally, where’s Gen Y?
I noticed quite a few “business” questions today. Like how can my organisation use this, or how would this make sense for my message. People in organisations (read: our bosses) are trying to figure this stuff out, so why aren’t we? Are we safe in the delusion that learning about the 4Ps is going to get us by in the workplace? I was back in a marketing class after not taking one for a year, and it struck me how the stuff being taught is simply not relevant to my (read: Gen Y’s) world anymore.
Getting to the point, we have all these conferences back home that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars to attend. Why don’t we have one by us students for students? And I’m not talking about people like me talking just about social media. Maybe it’s someone in a local band talking about how his blog is attracting new fans, maybe it’s someone with a fashion site talking about expanding her presence via Facebook. Sort of like the way we talked about wellness, food, photography, haikus and social media in our audio discussion.
So for the people in school going out to get a job soon. Or thinking of switching a different job because your finance job doesn’t look as glittery as it did a week ago, what do you think? Do you need social media in your job? Would you attend small gatherings to improve on them and share? Or do you think you can learn it all at work? Feedback please!
Tags: business in social media, cc chapman, facebook, gen y and social media, mitch joel, pcmtl, podcamp montreal, social media breakfast singapore, social media in singapore, youth using social media
5 Responses to “Podcamp Montreal Recap & Where Are All The Youth?”
By claudia on Sep 21, 2008 | Reply
I love the idea of getting students or anyone to share with everyone on how they’ve made use of social media to enhance their sites/blogs/brands etc. I’m sure there will be many out there who will be able to share.
By Amsie. on Sep 21, 2008 | Reply
I think it is mostly to get people excited about their passions and to show them the possibilities behind using these web 2.0 tools to leverage on their passions and perhaps bring it to another level of “hype” with on-going conversations taking place on the web and off the web.
Today I was just talking to a person passionate about business development and she was so excited when I told her about our comm215 wiki. She said she had been literally searching for this type of information summary.
So the boundaries are endless.
By Daryl Tay on Sep 22, 2008 | Reply
@Claudia: And yet it isn’t really happening eh?
@Amsie: So are you on board as the resident food person
By Amsie. on Sep 22, 2008 | Reply
Buy me an ice cream or starbucks and we’ll talk. HAHAHAH kidding la! Of course if you wishhhhh!