Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
This year, I can foresee my blog being occupied by two new things:
1) Digital Media Across Asia
As I’m taking over the teaching assistant role from Amelia this term to work with Michael, I can see a constant flow of inspiration arising from the class, and it will be nice to get back to working on the Digital Media Across Asia wiki again.
2) Highlighting local social media examples in business
As we’re gradually seeing more and more developments in the local social media scene, I’d like to invite anyone who wants an avenue to tell their story, to tell it here. I’d like to go beyond the usual blogger outreach story and hopefully be able to interact with a company who’s started a blog or twitter account for business purposes.
What else would you like to see on Unique Frequency in 2009?
Tags: amelia, communicate asia, curious foodie, digital media across asia, digital media across asia wiki, local social media, michael netzley, social media in business in singapore, social media in singapore
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
I’d like to join Prof. Michael Netzley and Mark to echo my support for Amelia’s nomination of the Social Media & PR Across Asia wiki for the 2008 Edublog Awards. It’s submitted for the Best Educational Wiki
I think our wiki is deserving of a nomination (and a win) because it is the epitome of crowdsourcing and collaboration, the very things that inspired wikis. It’s been maintained for over a year by over 100 students, but not by their efforts alone. We’ve reached out to the prominent figures all over Asia to get their input and integrate it into a comprehensive wiki for anyone to find out more about different social media usages across Asia. I daresay it is the most comprehensive resource for anyone looking to get a quick primer on social media in Asia.
Coming here to Canada for exchange, I’ve met people from all over Asia – Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, China, etc – and it’s amazing to see that our collective research really does mirror what actually goes on in their lives.
If you’ve seen or used our wiki, or even just like the idea of the wiki as a central informational tool, do give the wiki your support and drop a link to the Edublog Awards page and support the nomination!
[Disclosure: I am a contributor to the wiki as part of a course (Digital Media Across Asia) in SMU. I will also be teaching assistant for this course in January, and as such feel tremendously involved in this project and nomination!]
Tags: 2008 edublog awards, best educational wiki, communicate asia, curious foodie, michael netzley, oldskoolmark, social media and pr across asia
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
I’ve been sitting on this for awhile, but this is my first audio interview with four fellow bloggers: Amelia, Jacqueline, Nabilah and Calin. They came down one sunday to be special guests on my radio show on SMU Campus Radio (very creatively called The Talk Show), and talked about social media in general and blogging in particular.
I think it’s a very open, sincere and insightful interview with four people who have just started figuring out the whole social media space together with me. It’s not as organised as I’d like it to be as I had to cut out the music due to copyright issues, but I definitely think it’s worth your time nonetheless. Do give it a listen!
I couldn’t find a way to embed it on Wordpress, so listen to it here. Doesn’t take long to load!
Tags: all quirk no play, amelia, audio interview, blogging, blogging thoughts, body treats, calin, curious foodie, jacqueline chang, nabilah, new to blogging, social media
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
People have different ways of deciding where to eat:
- convenience (that’s me)
- price
- food quality
- service
- length of queue (if you’re Singaporean)
How about scent/smell of the place as you pass it?
There’s this eatery tucked away at Serene Centre and I swear we’ve eaten everywhere in the building, but that place. Two nights ago, we walked past fully intending to go somewhere else for dinner, but the aroma coming out of it was superb and we decided to give it a try. True enough the food was excellent.
I like food, but I’m nowhere near the foodie that Amelia is. So naturally this tale takes on a more marketing/advertising perspective for me. How much does the smell come into play when you decide to eat? Granted, it’s not a typical foodie metric, but it seemed to work in this case, right? I gotta look for other instances where restaurant aromas have translated into positive word of mouth.
One aspect where the restaurant’s branding didn’t quite work out: I remember the smell but not the name of the place, so sadly my directions can be no more specific than “the corner of Serene Centre, opposite the videogame store”. oh the irony.
Tags: amelia wong, choosing a restaurant, curious foodie, food scent smell aroma, metrics, restaurant advertising, restaurant marketing, serene center, word of mouth
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Fimoculous introduces six apps that will probably help enhance your Twitter usage. My favourite of the lot is by far TweetScan.
Jac, Amelia and myself were thinking about how Twitter can be used for us, and a quick TweetScan search on “photography” quickly turned up some results that would probably of use to Jac, and I’m sure searches for food would yield similar results.
I think I’ve read quite a bit on Twitter, and I’m ready to progress to Twitter 201 which will talk about how us regular bloggers (ie the non-famous people of the world), may actually have practical uses for Twitter. This’ll probably occur after Chinese New Year, so stay tuned!
Tags: amelia wong, ameliawong, apps, curious foodie, curiousfoodie, fimoculous, jacqueline chang, jacquelinechang, photography, tweet scan, tweetscan, twitter, twitter 101, twitter 102, twitter 103, twitter 201, twitter apps
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