Monday, March 31st, 2008
Taking the place of Icio Links this week, some great online coverage of SMB: Singapore.
First up, Michael’s video. 12 minutes of awesomeness (you have to click on the link because as usual, Wordpress is giving me problems with video).
Hisham gives his recount of a crazy weekend .
Amsie the foodie of course has her food pictures up.
Andrew too had a busy weekend but made the time to appear for SMB
YuHui’s post is here.
Prof. Michael dropped in for awhile but then followed the various conversations online to chime in as well.
Jeff Pulver (from whom we borrowed the personal tagging idea) picked up our video and we’re also very happy to have been picked up by Mitch Joel in Episode #97 of Six Pixels Of Separation. If you haven’t listened to this podcast, you need to. It’s the spark that got the collaboration for SMB off in the first place!
Truly a remarkable experience with great connections and conversations going on as well as a great community being formed. Don’t miss the next one!
It’s very possible I didn’t get all the pingbacks/trackbacks/links/Google Alerts, so if you posted something up on SMB: Singapore. Do let me know and I’ll add you in!
Edit:
Also picked up: a comparison between journalists and bloggers.
Nabilah has a recount of the whole social media adventure of hers from class to our audio interview to the SMB.
Sheylara wrote a lengthy post (with lots of great pictures) that you should check out as well.
Tags: amelia, aplink, communicate asia, curiousfoodie, delicious, hisham, Icio, jeff pulver, miccheng, michael cheng, michael netzley, mitch joel, personal tagging kit, six pixels of separation, smb singapore, social media breakfast singapore, social media video
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Sheylara and I met up just yesterday to squeeze out this video to serve as a trailer for Social Media Breakfast: Singapore happening on Saturday (full disclosure: she did most of the work and deserves most of the credit). Check it out:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FJqpXnHFRM]
I’ve been asked a few times what exactly the Social Media Breakfast is for. To me, it’s mainly for networking and meeting like-minded people who are into the social media space. That said, I think it’s perfectly fine if anyone feels that the main purpose is for fun or socialising or anything like that.
The other question is whether discussion has to be about social media, and I think the answer is no. I think it’s great to talk about the last movie you watched, or what you usually have for breakfast, or if you are a Twitter-addict. Anything goes. I suspect the true magic and connections will materialise after the event, when these relationships are allowed to grow both online and offline, as CC Chapman alludes to from his SXSW experience.
The ultimate goal of Social Media Breakfast? To me, as a believer of Mitch Joel’s belief of building communities and Joseph Jaffe’s belief of creating and joining conversations, the ultimate goal would be to really build up the social media community in Singapore, regardless of individual usages, be it personal, work, school or play.
If you’re interested in attending the event, the Facebook event page can be found here. Breakfast is $4 a person, but you will receive the personal tagging kit free!
If you need to speak to anyone to clarify anything, there’s me, Derrick or Sheylara online, or on Twitter at @uniquefrequency, @derrickkwa, @sheylara. See you on Saturday!
Tags: cc chapman, community, derrick kwa, facebook, jeff pulver, join the conversation, meet liike-minds, personal tagging kit, sheylara, social media breakfasst singapore trailer, social media breakfast singapore video, sxsw, twitter
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
If you use social media in any way (blog/podcast/use Youtube/use Flickr/use Facebook/etc), come for Social Media Breakfast: Singapore next Saturday, 29th of March 2008!
This is a little experiment that Derrick Kwa (from Adventures in Social Media #1) thought of doing, and was generous enough to invite me along for the ride. The objective of the breakfast is simply to meet like-minded people who are into the social media scene, expand your network and of course have fun. It doesn’t matter whether you’re interested in social media from a business standpoint or a social standpoint, everyone’s invited because you never know who you’d meet!
Currently Derrick and I have two rules:
- Everyone’s equal. When it comes to Social Media Breakfast, there’s no difference if you’re a CEO or a student. Everyone has something of value to contribute and everyone should be treated that way
- Law of Two Feet applies. If a particular conversation or discussion is not getting you what you want, feel free to move on.
Both are nods to PodCamp rules and we’re sure they’re not hard to follow!
Finally, we will be borrowing an idea from Jeff Pulver regarding personal tagging. I’ll let the man explain it himself:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U1TfAJoVlo]
The venue we’re looking at is either going to be TCC at SMU or Frujch. Either way it will be in the SMU area, so it’s pretty convenient. Also, because it’s our first time trying this out there are no sponsors involved, so you have to pay for your own breakfast and we hope that’s not too big a problem! We’ll clarify the final date and time within the week.
So if you’re coming, leave me a comment or drop me an email: uniquefrequencyATgmailDOTcom or message me on Twitter and we’ll see you on the 29th!
Tags: adventures in social media, blog, derrick kwa, facebook, flickr, frujch, jeff pulver, like-minded people, personal tagging, podcamp, podcast, Singapore, SMU, social media, social media breakfast, twitter, youtube
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