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Hi all,
I've finally got myself a domain at http://vic.sg and will be moving there from now!
Looking forward to seeing you there! I'll definitely try to blog more :)
Wow. I have not met some of my classmates for years, until today! Today is Cindy and Gordon's wedding and most of our ex-schoolmates have turned up for her wedding. Had a good time catching up with some of them. Now waiting for Boon Hua to upload the pictures to picasa :)
Really glad that we are one of the early birds at the Social Media Brunch 4 (SMB4) who managed to get a Lenovo notebook! I wonder how can I use this notebook... It is just so pretty! Derrick had to carry them to URA by himself, so the stocks were limited.
The discussion at the SMB4 was focused on the Corporate Adoption of Social Media. There are a lot of take aways from the discussion, which were documented at their website. However, the picture that was painted seems to be "Facebook is the thing" and all companies should adopt Social Media.
It seemed also like the private sector have problem getting their management buy in on Social Media. However in the public sector, it is a different story:
"We will use the new media, multimedia, podcast, vodcast, all these things which you get in the Internet, or somebody sends to you by email, I think our ministries, our agencies have to experiment, have to try it out."
- Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore
Extracted from National Day Rally Speech 2006
There wasn't any discussion on the public sector and perhaps the private sector should take a leaf from them?
One key problem that was shared was on the ROI. Management have problems with ROIs on Social Media. Perhaps the ROI matrix should be derived from the traditional media's matrix to convince the management on the value of new media? Just a thought.
On the other hand, I think rather than spending all the time to do bloggers engagement, companies should spend more time in making their products and services better. When the products and services are good, people who blogs will naturally write something good about them. Of course, I am not saying that bloggers engagement should stop, but the focus should be on the product than the bloggers.
Anyway, I really enjoyed myself at the session and I am looking forward to the next session! :)
To the SMB team - Keep up the good work!
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Work has been really overwhelming. Of course amongst all the pressure and stress, I am happy to see that some things are changing for the better - Must always see the other side of the coin mah...
I love my work so much that I have to leave some for tomorrow.
When I went to terminate my line the other day, the counter staff actually asked me for a reason for doing this and my response to him was, "I deserve better!"
No, I am not going to ditch my Starhub line for M1's, but more of the complete opposite!
Yeah, my 2 year contract with M1 is finally up!
I must they that they are indeed "Brighter". Charging users with service plans $69.30 for unlimited data usage, when their mobile Broadband is charging $19.36 for unlimited data. So they wouldn't link my M1 Broadband with a service plan, even though the technology allows this to be done.
Both SingTel and Starhub allow this! SingTel is charging $22.42 for 50GB data usage and Starhub is charging at $38.72 for unlimited data usage.
Yes, I deserve better! So, I am ditching the "Brighter" one for Sparky! :)
