Friday, May 9th, 2008
The attendee list on the Facebook Event page for Social Media Breakfast: Singapore 2 has been at 40 people for a couple of days now, about 60% were present at the first one. This is good in the sense that we’ll be familiar with each other and really move the conversation forward and talk about the crazy issues that plague all of us who’re trying to figure out the space.
However, there’s also something missing. New blood! I talked before about the fishbowl and being insular
, and if we want the landscape of social media to change, we have to reach out. To people who are just entering the social media domain, to people who are curious but still on the fence, to people who don’t even know about this world yet!
So here’s the challenge: Convince one other person (friend, classmate, colleague, family) that this is worth their while. Let them know it’s newbie friendly, after all, most of us are new to the space anyway!
That’s the mission if you choose to accept it, come back and let everyone know how it went by posting in the comments section!
Tags: bloggers, echo chamber, facebook event, fishbowl, insular, moving the conversation, smb singapore, social media breakfast singapore
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
As Sham has already reported, SMB:S2 will be happening in three weeks on the 24th of May, 2008. All the details can be found at the Facebook event page.
Who should come?
Anyone interested and passionate about the social media space, be it blogging, podcasting, social networks, micro blogging etc. What this event is not, however, is a blogger outing that is so popular around Singapore. Read up about the original event and check out the blog coverage if you think you might be interested!
ps: The event is open to all so feel free to invite fellow friends to the Facebook event page, hopefully people who can help move the conversation further.
There’ll definitely be more news and updates as and when it happens, so stay tuned. Meanwhile, we already have 19 confirmed guests on the Facebook event page, won’t you be one of them too? What would you like to see that this SMB? More structure? A proper format and/or discussions? Let me know and we’ll see how we can factor it in.
Tags: blogging, facebook event, micro blogging, podcasting, smb singapore, social media, social media breakfast singapore, Social Networks
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
The SMU seniors decided to have a flash mob where they decided to lie down in the middle of the concourse to celebrate their last day of school, check out the video (the organisers have a little interview at the end):
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The interesting thing is the flash mob did have a social media hand guiding it. A Facebook event, Jacqueline’s post along with well-placed tweets on Twitter like:
Eventually a lot of the word spread online and definitely in real life, leading up to the event you just saw. Pretty amazing isn’t it? (A quick Tweetscan shows that many people around the world are using Twitter to announce flash mobs!)
Oh I’m not usually a video person and I know the video looks like it was just pieced together (because it was). I’m sure the pros will be doing a better one, my intention is to get the word out and show that social media does get real life events into motion!
Tags: facebook event, flash mob, flash mob video, last day of school, SMU, smu flash mob, smu seniors, social media flash mob, twitter flash mob
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
So much good stuff this week I’m going to split Icio Week into two.
Tags: 2007, blogger outreach, can't find google, customer always right, customer is wrong, customer not always right, data, empirical evidence, facebook event, health promotion board, Icio, marketers struggle with social media, non-profit social media, ntu fake ad, ntu fake advertisement, over hyped, PR new media, reputation management, save online reputation, second life, smu = ntu, social media breakfast singapore, social media space, successes
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Wow so many people have gotten excited about SMB: Singapore. Derrick and I are really excited to get it going!
Both Claud and Derrick suggested creating a Facebook event, so I did and you can find it here.
Big thanks to Nabilah from Frujch who’s helping us out with the venue and has even been kind enough to waive the venue booking fees! Do check out their food too. Porto bello mushroom sandwich is excellent.
Both Derrick and myself are contactable via Twitter: @derrickkwa @uniquefrequency
I’m going to try to do something to explain the personal tagging kit (it will be low budget I’m afraid), so look for that coming soon!
Tags: 29th march 2008, all quirk no play, claudia limedsign, derrick kwa, facebook event, frujch, happy place, nabilah, personal tagging kit, porto bello mushroom, SMU, social media breakfast singapore, twitter
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