Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
In addition to being away last week, I also fell pretty ill, which pretty much took up any and all time and energy I had to do anything, much less blog.
One thing that I found interesting was that the Magnum advertising post generated a lot more talk than I thought it would both here and on Plurk. It surprised me not because I thought it was a bad post (though I worked on it on a weekend while away), but because it came out of nowhere, from the simple act of my colleague buying a Magnum. Just goes to show you can’t predict what people will talk about on the internet.
Working at a multi-million dollar TV channel (which is as mass media as they come) for the last month has been very interesting for me. On one hand it reminded me of my passion for music and youth, on the other hand the nature of the environment meant I was thinking a lot in the “mass media” setting than in the niche, web2.0 setting than I normally do. Is there a way to merge the two? Surely there is. I don’t have the answer to that (and maybe no one does yet), but it was definitely a very exciting month. The least “social media” month in 2008, to be sure.
Moving ahead, I’m leaving for Canada on the 24th of August and will be there till the end of the year on exchange. I’m really looking forward to checking out how their social media scene is like and meet some people, maybe attend a conference or two. If you have links to people or bloggers or companies embracing web2.0 there and wouldn’t mind sharing, do let me know. Greatly appreciate it.
And now, back to regularly scheduled blogging.
Tags: blogging, canada, short hiatus, social media
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
I’ll be overseas in Malaysia for the next two weeks (roughly) and probably will not be able to blog much. Do pardon my temporary hiatus! I’ll try to blog as much as I can but it probably won’t be as frequent as I’d like. Bear with me!
Tags: overseas, short hiatus, travel
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Yesterday was the Ping.sg birthday party and awards. You might remember me mentioning I was nominated for “Most insightful blog”, “Most insightful post” for “Are bloggers really influencers?” and “Best review post” for my review of Plurk.
The great news is I managed to snag both “Most insightful post” and “Most insightful blog”, so thanks to everyone who voted for me, and the people who nominated me in the first place.
It’s obviously nice to walk away with something and I’m glad the blogosphere in Singapore is beginning to read and recognise that blogs aren’t just Meepok Blogs about what I had for lunch. One thing I do wanna say is let’s be clear that the awards were only open to people in the Ping.sg community. By default that leaves out other great insight blogs like Michael’s and Priscilla’s. Let’s also not forget other content blogs like Vanessa’s, Kevin’s and Walter’s who post great stuff, but maybe don’t always have the time to engage with the people on ping.sg. After all, voting always boils down to a popularity contest.
Still, I hope this means more people are going to recognise the impact of social media and start bringing it into their lives, work and play, and hopefully we will see a much needed change locally in the near future.
(ps: The pictures and “fun” stuff will be up on my personal blog later. Stay tuned!)
Tags: are bloggers really influencers, blog awards in singapore, most insightful blog, most insightful post, ping.sg awards, plurk review
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
I must really apologise for not blogging much this week. I think it has been the least I’ve blogged since I’ve started the blog, but work has really been tough (though incredibly enjoyable).
The 2nd Ping.sg blog awards (blog aggregator in Singapore with about 3,500 blogs) have their nominees and I’m nominated in three categories:
(for “Are Bloggers Really Influencers?”)
(for “Why Plurk Over Twitter #3: Organic Conversations“)
Thank you to those who nominated me. If I’ve ever talked to you (in person) about why I blog, you know it’s not for the “fame” or money (I don’t even have ads!), but it’s really just me trying to share my love for this fascinating new digital space with you, and hopefully help spread the word about social media and how it can help you in your personal life, academic life or professional life.
I didn’t nominate myself for anything primarily because I thought it’s be a good gauge to see what the community finds valuable. I think the fact that the community has chosen two posts in particular that are aimed at convincing businesses that bloggers are indeed influencers and fostering conversation and community tells me that locally, the people who’re reading are listening and finding some value in it, and that is very, very encouraging.
So do check out the awards nominees page and vote for who you like. I’m not going to ask that you vote for me because looking at the nominees across the board, I think the community has already won.
Tags: are bloggers really influencers, best review post singapore, blog awards, community, conversation, dialogue, most insightful blog singapore, most insightful post singapore, organic conversations, ping.sg, ping.sg blog awards, Plurk, spread the word about social media, twitter, why plurk over twitter
Posted in Announcements, Blogs, Plurk, Singapore, Social Networks, community, social media, twitter | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
How do you keep up with the comments you leave on other blogs? I think if you’re truly interested in joining and contributing to a conversation, you need to check in again to know how the discussion is evolving over time and whether the author has replied to you. The worst thing you can do is leave a comment and never visit the page again.
What I do (or used to do) is after I’ve left a comment, I bookmark the page under a “check for comments” folder and track it daily until the comments die out.
Something I’ve realised recently is that certain blogs have a “receive follow up comments via email” check box, which is really useful to me as it saves the trouble of bookmarking the site. Disqus is another option, but it’s a bit of a hassle to verify.
So today, Krisandro was helpful enough to point me in the direction of the Wordpress plugin and henceforth, you’ll be able to follow up with the comments too. I’d highly encourage it because I find that I’m must more involved in the conversations when I track them after I’ve posted.
Hope you enjoy using it.
Tags: blog comments, comments, join the conversation, tracking comments, tracking conversations, wordpress comments plugin
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
I noticed that after I posted how to use RSS, the number of people subscribed to the blog increased by a decent amount (up around 50%).
My blogroll has been sorely neglected since I first put up the blog, so if you’re someone subscribed to the blog and want to be added to the blogroll, let me know who you are either via email (uniquefrequency[AT]gmail{DOT}com) or comment below.
Maybe tell me a little more about yourself and what you’re into. That way if I stumble across information that may be relevant to you, I can pass it along.
If you’re not a subscriber, not to worry. If you’re involved in this niche of social media, community marketing, web2.0 etc, I’d be happy to add you to the blogroll too. Drop me an email or comment and leave some similar information.
At the end of the day, I really want to know who the readers are and who this community is made up of. So make yourself heard!
Tags: Blogroll, community marketing, rss subscribers, social media, web 2.0, web2.0
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
I’ve made the move to Wordpress a little quicker than I thought I would, but so far I’m pretty happy. I’ve managed to set up the RSS feeds and worked out the tags and categories features, though there’re still some kinks to work out. For instance, now that I don’t have complete control over my html, I need to figure out how to install Google Analytics. Perhaps over the weekend.
For now, I’ll slowly migrate posts that are relevant from the old site over. For clarity, all the media stuff will be covered here, personal stuff goes on Unique Frequency.
I have to admit there’s a certain thrill to seeing my own blog posts appear on my Google Reader feed.
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