I’m in Seoul now and tomorrow I’ll be presenting at this conference
WPBA
Amongst the familiar faces will be Hillary (Malaysia) and Victor (Hong Kong) from CNET Asia as well.
Initially I thought I’d just be coming here as an attendee and not a speaker. However when they invited me to present, I took sometime to think about the theme of the conference and decided to present on the topic ‘Citizen Journalism in Singapore’ giving a snapshot of what’s been happening here in this area as well as some key learnings. In Singapore, citizen journalism has impacted brands, government, sports, traditional media (STOMP,OMY and RazorTV), legislation, local blogging communities, and much more (depending on how much I can squeeze in hurhur).
Although I don’t really like to talk about social media and citizen journalism (as mentioned in an earlier blog post), when I started preparing the materials, I surprised myself how I managed to put a presentation together in less than 2 hours. In fact, I had much more materials than I had time to present. This alone convinces me that citizen journalism is truly well and alive in Singapore. Since I’m the only one from Singapore here, I hope to give the rest of the world a better understanding of what’s happening here in our part of the world, especially when folks from some really popular sites like Digg and Gawker Media (Gizmodo) will be here as well.
Hope to share more about the conference again soon. Till then!
p.s. Some of the gadgets I’m reviewing on this trip : Canon EOS 1000D and Gigabyte Netbook.
(Signing off from Seoul)
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