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Who The Other IDC Panelists Are (They’re All Much More Popular Than I Am)

I got home thinking about the final post on the IDC Conference and saw this:

138 views from Kenny Sia, a Malaysian blogger who was at the IDC Conference as well. I didn’t get to interact with Kenny that much, but I know he’s pretty popular both in Malaysia and Singapore.

Meenakshi aka The Compulsive Confessor was who I spent the most time with (probably cos we’re the closest in age), and I must give her credit for what she writes particularly taking on the age/societal/cultural gap in India. The team researching India for our Social Media in Asia Wiki highlighted some of these issues, and it was great hearing it first hand. She has a book deal. Do I need to prove her popularity?

Finally there’s Victor from Hong Kong aka Hong Kong Phooey. He blogs mainly about tech (check out the recent entries on the ultra-portable PCs). Also, 400,000 hits in 18 months. Amazing.

In the short time I had to interact with these bloggers, I think they’re all incredibly smart and definitely understand how web2.0 and social media work within their niches. Clearly we share different audiences, but that’s the beauty of it isn’t it? That four different people can be blogging about four very different passions, and yet be invisibly united by social media.

Tags: compulsive confessor, hong kong bloggers, hong kong phooey, idc conference, indian bloggers, kenny sia, malaysia bloggers, singapore bloggers, singaporean bloggers, tech bloggers, technology bloggers

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My First Social Media Discussion Panel!

I’ve been invited to IDC’s conference: IDC’s Asia/Pacific Directions 2008
“Tech X.0: Mastering New Business Models and Markets” at the Grand Copthorne this Friday. It’s a full day conference talking about various aspects of Web2.0 and the lineup looks pretty interesting.

The panel I’ll be present at is at 3:30pm, called Generation Y and the Emerging Power of User-generated Content

What makes younger generations tick? How do you reach them as a company and why is self-expression in the form of user-generated content becoming so important to today’s Internet generation?
Claus Mortensen moderates a panel of prominent young bloggers from around the Asia/Pacific region to get their perspective on these issues and more. This panel will give the audience a great opportunity to understand what motivates today’s “Generation Y”.

The other panelists are Kenny Sia, The Compulsive Confessor and Hong Kong Phooey.

Tickets to the whole conference are available (and a little expensive), but I think businesses can definitely benefit from it. But for those of us who don’t otherwise have the money to spend, there’ll be a live webcast where you can ask questions to the panel. (Please don’t ask some killer question, ok?)

Quite a big honour to be invited to the panel since my presence in the social media world is probably about 100 days. Hope it’ll be a great experience!

Tags: compulsive confessor, generation 7, grand copthorne, hong kong phooey, idc directions 2008, kenny sia, user generated content

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