After three months of planning and two weeks of craziness getting the final touches firmed, Blogout! 2009 ended with quite a bang! Over
70 pages of twitter updates for #blogout09, hitting #2 trend on twitter on
Day 1 and #1 trend on
Day 2!! Although partly due to the time difference with the other part of tweeters, still quite an achievement for a Singapore event which got the attention almost globally. All thanks to the hardworking tweeters at Blogout! 2009. *salutes*
Total of over 180 people attended Blogout! 2009 and these are a mix of friends and folks from marketing and communications, PR industry, brand managers, entrepreneurs, students, people from the media, bloggers, thought leaders, community players and even a significant from the governments! Who says they aren't active in the social media or new media arena? We believe they're learning hard just like all of us.
From the survey, which we're still collating, so if you haven't done it,
you can still do it, most of you enjoyed the sessions you attended and both days were rated
4 out of 5 (so far). Thanks very much for your support! We will be sharing more about the survey findings once we get more replies. So please do help with the survey so that we can improve and work on even better Blogout! or similar events for the community.
Reflecting back on the two days event, here are some of the things which we regret not having:
- Internet connection! Some of us did tweet about the lack of wireless connection at 8Q SAM. The Wireless@SG connection keeps dropping but there's nothing we could do. Thanks to U-zyn, who shared out his connection on the later part of day 1 and Claudia who shared his connection on day 2, than there was "free" wifi within the vacinity. We will surely look into this in future events. We know how important wifi is! Especially for the tweet team and live bloggers!
- Platform for speakers and panels. This we had wanted to put it in, but because of the limited space and the oversubscription online, we couldn't fit the platform in. We sure will look into this, or even a stage (if necessary) for future events.
- Handouts and notes. To be honest, this only came to our mind on the morning of Day 1! As Blogout! 2009 was our first almost-conference style Blogout, we didn't factor the notes in. But thanks again to the wonderful attendees and tweeters, we've got them digitally shared somewhere, somehow. Links to notes and slides can be found below.
After the first day of Blogout!, there was also a small gathering of startups and our speakers, Jon Yongfook and Joel Postman, at Secret Garden. It was an intimate session with local startups who shared about their projects and passions. Our guest speakers also shared their valuable experiences and provided useful guidance to those who were there.
Finally, we would like to thank all our partners (iDA and NHB) and sponsors (8Q SAM, Samsung, Singtel, Microsoft and Nuffnang) that made Blogout! 2009 happen! Also thanks to the volunteers and helpers and supporters who came and made it all happen!
What some others said about Blogout! 2009:
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By the way, I really liked the content of the #blogout09 conference today. Great panelists and topics." by
Markusng
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It was well-run and well-coordinated, so kudos to the TDM folks for organizing a great event from a bottom-up grassroots effort." - by Chi-Loong at
Techgoondu
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congrats to @digitalmovement team for a great two days at #blogout09" by
Kelvin Lim
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A well-done the @digitalmovement team for a great #blogout09!" by
Daniel Goh
Slides and notes for Blogout! 2009:
From Day 1
From Day 2
Summary
Links to blog posts by attendees:
Links to photos of Blogout! 2009:
Links to discussions/ pages about Blogout! 2009/ TDM:
The Digital Movement is on
facebook and
twitter
And finally, thanks to the plug from all of the following to spread the love for Blogout! 2009:
On SocializedPR by Joel Postman, On
Yongfook.com by Yongfook,
Yongfook's message to Singapore Blogout on Youtube,
Make friends, make money on Today Online by Hedirman Supian, On
eOK .network by Benjamin Koe,
10 reasons why you should attend Blogout! on Bloggers' Noticeboard, On
theory is the reason by Kevin Lim, On
Ping.sg Blog, On
APLINK its Real, On
Newasia Singapore, On
Malaysia Entrepreneurs, On
Bits & Bytes, On
Digital Media in Singapore