Sales, Social and Tech

I got some of the Startups at unConference 2009 to talk about their services in 30 secs.

Joel Postman, of Socialized PR and author of SocialCorp, will be in Singapore at Blogout 09!. Blogout 09! is organised by The Digital Movement. Joel has left 10 questions about social media on his blog and has asked readers to respond. Here are my  thoughts and I hope to do a video interview with Joel at Blogout 09!. The “conversation” is not taking place on corporate web sites. Where is it happening? Unfortunately, the conversation is still happening in the traditional space. I feel that there is a social media generation gap in corporations in Asia. The top management is still unwilling to take that first step and those at the bottom  In Asia Pacific, its even worst as many here wait for direction from the top before even wanting to suggest taking the first step of the online conversation by listening. How much more “micro” will content get? Can we get by with fewer than 140 characters? Can you communicate anything of substance ...

It has been quite awhile since I was invited to an event as blogger or as media. Daniel Goh for Samsung invited me to this evening announcement of the new Samsung phones via Twitter earlier in the day. The invitation via Twitter was as sign of how things have changed since having left the media scene some six years ago when I was writing for PC World Singapore and Hardwarezone.com. Armed with the Samsung Omnia and Qik.com installed, I was able to do some “live” broadcast of short clips of the launch. Unfortunately during the launch, I wasn’t able to access Twitter so I updated via my Facebook status page. Winston Goh, product manager for Samsung, introducing the new Samsung mobile models It was after the event and during the train ride home that it struck me to how the tools of content creation have changed so much since my media days. Mobile data rates have fallen by so much that it allows me to transfer data via mobile Internet without me having to worry a...