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Podcamp Singapore v2.0 – Joshua Nair

kelvin — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:09:10 +0000

3D – Internet: The future of Social Media

Why talk about this?

The way we have conversation with our friends depends on our technolgy.

Why will the change occur? 2D to 3D

3D in games

immersive
gameplay
social connections

Closed vs Open Virtual Environment

Open Virtual Environment – new form of website, user generated content (They prefer to call it the “Immersive Web”.

Samsung Mobile 3D web.

Podcamp Singapore v2.0 – Michael Netzley

kelvin — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 07:07:16 +0000

Decentralized Learning: Wikis and My Experiment with Educating Gen Y

“The Starfish and The Spider”

- Starfish > Decentralised
- Spider > Centralised

The most important question.

Where in the learning process do we have what Clayton Christensen calls “non-consumption”.

Disrupting Class by Clayton Christensen.

Wikitexts: Addressing Nonconsumption Behind The Firewall

Students write their own textbook on the wiki
Peer editing and faculty feedback guide revision
Constructivist and partially decentralised model

Get them to learn from one another.

Problems

Trust in lay-person feedback
Status
Skills

Social Media and PR across Asia – Wiki

Why does a global network enhance student learning?

1. Leverage

2. Motivation

3. Contructivist Process

4. Experience – social media works!

Podcamp Singapore v2.0 – Tech65’s Daniel, Farinelli and DK

kelvin — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:20:44 +0000

65bits – Lessons after 94 episodes

Background on Tech 65

A team of geeks passionate about technology – help people learn about technology through podcasts through blogs – sharing their knowledge.

65bits is one of the podcasts that Tech 65 has. Idea is a bunch of geeks coming together to discuss about tech stuff happening.

They’re going to do live recording of 65bits!

Got a surround sound microphone so that listeners can distinguish voices in the space.

Things they’ve learnt:

1. Content is king – started out because they loved geeking out, hanging out talking about technology
- important to be interested in the content you talk about, can’t be a script that someone else wrote, otherwise not sustainable
- Length – 10 mins is desirable – they’ve not been able to achieve that so they do show notes which has timestamps for topics. The ideal option was Apple’s enhanced podcast but they wanted to keep things broader
- Podcast.sg sort of diluted the meaning of podcasts – sort of confused the uninitiated
Melvin asked what the community do to help Tech 65
- Daniel “One of the challenges – balancing personal life and tech 65 side project”
- Publicity – fundamental issue is “not enough people understand the concept of podcasting, consuming podcasts as a concept”

Their purpose is to make people less afraid of technology.

Discussion of challenges of podcasting

One of the challenges is technology
The other thing is the lack of ideas, creativity, talent, ability to engage the audience – Walter
The ability to script for audio/radio – Melvin – radio has the ability to engage the imagination

2. Jumpstarting (Secret to 65bits sustainability)

Once its a habit, it’s easier to maintain – momentum carried them forward

Walter asked a question that was asked at the DMFest continually – “How do you make money out of this?”

The only payment is the joy of doing it. Previously loss track because of the money issue. DK – when you start anything web 2.0, don’t think about money first, make it sustainable first, then think about money.

Analogy is like a rock band.

3. Lessons learnt about our audience – Singaporeans don’t really contribute – shy maybe? or they like to complain?

Podcamp Singapore v2.0 – Walter Lim

kelvin — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:02:08 +0000

Landscape

Less trusting of corporate marketing

More community, web 2.0 tools available

Finds that people who are not normally blogging, podcasting are in Facebook. Low barrier of entry – killer app.

The irrelevant corporate website – an unbelievable collection of hyperbole etc.

Words of caution

set expectations right
don’t bet the house
prepare to get your hands dirty
marathon rather than a sprint
ain’t always glamorous

Talking about yesterday.sg

Challenges

Niche content
Growing our membership base
Sustaining and growing visitorship
Increasing participation rates
Contest fatigue
Social media saturation
occasional technical issues

30,000 page views per month

15,000 unique visitors

300 reads per post

40 friends of yesterday.sg

2223 registered member

Podcamp Singapore v2.0 – Melvin Yuan

kelvin — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:34:33 +0000

At SMU now. We’re starting!

Melvin Yuan

Speeches no longer one sided – “welcome to the world of social media. It’s all about Conversations.”
social media only impacted Singapore in 2008
previously talking about “new media” early days
2007 – beginnings of discussion on social media
2008 – impact of social media
What’s ahead for 2009? Melvin’s take
- 80% web services going to face pressure to bring in revenue
- Poorly run services will die off
- Good web services will remain
- more collaboration between agencies – sharing of information
Social media in Singapore has changed our lives in 2008
- Doors have opened, thru blogs secured jobs, thru social networks
Social Media – The Good, The Bad and the “Boh Liao”
- The Good
  - Friendships
  - Empowerment – new channels
  - Collaboration
- The Bad
  - Loss of privacy
  - Inability of knowing the dangers of being online
- The Boh Liao
  - Should I continue Plurking? Stay online to raise karma
  - Pressure to keep existing online – just because we need to
  - Preston Fosback (?spelling?) ustream obama sign – in few days 40,000 users 24/7 surveillance

There’s alot more to social media than we now realise. What are we going to do with social media in 2009?