Social Media Club Penang

Social Media Club Penang

SMCpg  //  Everyone is now a creator and consumer of information and together we learn and observe and ultimately sharing for everyone's benefit. You in?

 
Jul 8 / 8:00am

SMCpg #5 - Meet us on 9th July tomorrow

Posted by email 
In conjunction of Penang Heritage Month, we are glad to have our SMCpg 5th meetup on this Saturday 9th .

 It will be in the morning 8.30am from Campbell Street towards Muntri Street.

 We would like to thanks those who have register and confirm via Mailchimp . For those who would like join, please do register and confirm your e-mail details as we shall send the necessary details for our Saturday trip.

 For those who are unable to join the meetup, you can also take part this historical event by taking pictures and upload from your mobile phones. Please do remember to put hastag #smcpg5 when you upload via twitter / facebook / instagram and everyone can enjoy and share the pictures througout this occasion. Let Penang have the best memorial moment on this social media event .

Hashtag : smcpg5

Tammy

 

Updates:

  1. 8 July - End location changed to Muntri Mews, Muntri Street.
 
Jun 22 / 9:52pm

SMCpg #5 : Mobile Photography Heritage Walk on 9th July '11 - Register now!

Posted by email 
We were so happy with the outcome of SMCpg #4 in Chai Diam Ma. Our next meet up #5 will be another exciting theme. It is going to be about mobile photography of Heritage Walk in Georgetown, Penang.

Most of the time, when we mention about photography, we think about big, heavy, black expensive DSLR to capture moments or places. Sometimes, it might be too bulky and troublesome when it comes to sharing pictures with other and also converting them into your computers. Nowadays, we can just snap it with our mobile phones and then upload to the web almost instantly. This have been the current trend of today's photography.

In this event #5, we will be walking along the streets of Penang, taking pictures as you go with your mobile phones. At the end of the event, we will meet up at our final destination to chill with some food and drinks. We will also have a session of sharing on how social media play a part in this event.

Social Media Club penang would like to invite you (max 20 person) to join the fun on this event. Kindly click here to be part of this event. The details are below:

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SMCpg #5 : Mobile Photography Heritage Walk
Date : 9th July 2011 Saturday
Time : 8.30am
Location start : Campbell Street
Requirement : Sport shoe and mobile phone with camera

Famous photo website as flickr.com have shown mobile photography is getting the highest post compare with other DSLR shots. Many users are now using their mobile phones to snap and upload to the web instantly. There are many applications from our mobile phones that allow users to have different effect on the pictures. Join the fun and we are looking forward to see each and everyone of you.

You will have to register for this event and to receive regular updates. Limit to 20 person only. Register now.


View SMCpg #5 : Mobile Photography Heritage Walk in a larger map

Updates:

  1. 27 June - Venue changed to Behind 50, Love Lane.
  2. 29 June - Proposed routemap (Map above)
  3. 8 July - Venue changed to Muntri Mews, Muntri Street.
 
Jun 22 / 6:31am

SMCpg #4 Eat, Drink, Meet & Get Social

Posted by email 
This is a different approach on the 4th SMCpg meetup. For the first three session, we invited speakers to share on topics related to social media. This times we change to something very casual, in a very cozy environment with a little fun in it.

It was a Sunday Morning on 22nd May 2011 with some sprinkle of rain to welcome everyone in Queens Street, Penang. We gathered in Chai Diam Ma, around middle of georgetown, Penang. 

"Chai Diam Ma" as translated from Hokkien language is as "Grocery Shop". The environment reminded our childhood times and the owner created a cozy place for us to enjoy the drink or have a meal with many artist decoration to fascinate. 

We started the event by introducing ourselves and at the meantime we are having our breakfast or brunch. There are quite a variety of food and unique beverage to order and everyone seem to please on the meal. 

After the meal, we start a mini game just to have some fun. The game is call Guess Word. The answers designed just for this Social Media event to get everyone familiarized with what social media can bring us in life. Keywords like Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, etc. were among the famous social media tools we can use. The guess game also include Penang's special such as food, places, shopping etc. 

Everyone was having fun during the guessing game. It was hilarious when the answers either has been hit or miss. Even the staff in Chai Diam Ma joined the game. 

The event was a success and gave SMCpg further understanding on how people would like to get social together on this type of event. 

Check it out on one of famous Penang blogger who have join this event as well. We love everyone who took part and can't wait to see everyone on the next meetup. 

@Millyminc

@tammytiki

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Feb 22 / 3:22am

SMCpg #3: Other than Facebook featuring Lim Cheng Soon

by Jason Gan

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Often when we talk about social media, Facebook is the first that comes into our mind. In our previous session we've got Mallorie Rosenbluth from Likeable Media sharing with us some tips on how to leverage on the most popular social network on earth for businesses, we believe the next question we'd like to ask is: what's other than Facebook?

In this installation of Social Media Club Penang bi-monthly event we're proud to present you, Lim Cheng Soon (a.k.a. @bearwithclaws) from Netizens Media, a serial entrepreneur who deleted his Facebook account four years ago.

 

Cheng Soon is a maker and tinkerer who's passionate about the web. He built and sold several online businesses (mostly Wordpress-related) including ShoppingThemes, WeRockWP, WPWebHost and PremiumMod. He is currently the curator and publisher of Hacker Monthly, the print magazine of Hacker News in the United States.

Cheng Soon is both a marketer and hacker with years of experience in sales & markting, SEO and various programming languages. He will be sharing with us what is his take about the social web, and how he built his businesses on it, other than Facebook.

This session will be moderated by Jason Gan.

SMCpg #3: 3rd March 2011 (Thursday), 7.30pm at LOL Concept Office, Bay Avenue, Penang.

Available seats: 40. RSVP here.

SMCpg #3 is supported by LOL Concept Office: Lifestyle Office Lounge Concept Office is a newly launched services by ADASS that particularly suitable for those who enjoy the free out from the traditional office structure and yet would like to perform work at public places.

 
Jan 17 / 10:23am

Materials from SMCpg #2

by Tjun
A big thank you to those who came for SMCpg #2! We hope that you are able to understand more on how to use Facebook for your business. 

As you all know, we had a very bad connection during the event so the video conference with our featured speaker, Mallorie Rosenbluth. So here are the materials from her side for your listening and viewing pleasures. 

2) Facebook for Businesses - Likeable Media for SMCpg.wmv (To play the audio file, we recommend you to download the VLC Media Player.)

Thank you again for making SMCpg #2 happen and have a great year ahead!

 
Dec 30 / 4:08pm

SMCpg #2: Facebook Marketing for Businesses

by Tjun

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After a long awaited period, we are announcing the upcoming 2nd event for SMCpg. In this event, we will be discussing one of the most discussed topic which is, 'Facebook Marketing for Businesses'. 

Facebook, a social networking site with more than 500 million users, is a market much sought after by businesses. But do they know how? 

Come join us where @MallorieRose will be discussing on how businesses are able to fully utilize Facebook for their business.

SMCpg #2 will be featuring:
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@MallorieRose: Mallorie Rosenbluth is the Managing Director of New Client Strategy at Likeable Media, a social media and word of mouth marketing agency based in New York. Mallorie's primary focus is working with new clients to assess their goals, define their objectives and create a strategy to accomplish both utilizing social media and word of mouth programs. Prior to joining Likeable, Mallorie worked for Wegmans Food Markets as their Social Media and Recruitment Branding Consultant. She can be found @MallorieRose on Twitter or www.facebook.com/MallorieRosenbluth

SMCpg #2: 13th January 2011 (Thursday), 7pm at LOL Concept Office, Bay Avenue, Penang.

SMCpg #2 is supported by:
Lol

LOL Concept Office: Lifestyle Office Lounge Concept Office is a newly launched services by ADASS that particularly suitable for those who enjoy the free out from the traditional office structure and yet would like to perform work at public places.
 
Nov 25 / 11:57am

Important Announcement!

by Tjun
Hello again everyone,

We would like to announce that #pgsmparty will be postpone 
due to unforeseen circumstances. No worries as the party is still on. We will come back with a new date shortly.

So stay tune!
 
Oct 12 / 7:33pm

SMCpg #1: Are you on the map? [VIDEO]

by Jason Gan

It was an awesome event that we had our awesome speakers sharing with us about geolocation social networks, a big shout out to Hakim, Harinder and Thean Soon as our panel of speakers! A big thank you to our sponsors Exabytes, Blissful Group, Tribeup and the talented JimmyAng for the awesome videos and photos.

The event was held at Suntech @ Penang Cybercity (we managed to unlock the 1st Swarm Badge on Foursquare in Penang) and the panel discussion was moderated by Prema.

 

 
Sep 27 / 4:25pm

SMCpg #1: Are you on the map?

by Jason Gan

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This is the inauguration session of SMCpg, and in the first event we're going to discuss about one of the hottest topic in town: Geolocation social networks.

If you're still wondering what geolocation is, you're probably missing something that is revolutionizing the social media industry. As Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite and even Facebook Places is joining the competition to fulfill the desire of users to broadcast geolocation related information, we keep wondering, what can we harvest from this?

Join @lightyoruichi, @hakimism and @daaditsu to discuss about how businesses and individuals can better utilize geolocation social networks, from different angles.

PS: We also aim to achieve the 1st swarmbadge on Foursquare in Penang.

SMCpg #1 will be featuring:

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@daaditsu: Thean Soon is a self-taught "new-media" peep with I.T. background that spends way too much time on the Net, due to his work nature, which ended up indulging in almost every major social networking sites. Believed that endless sharing and contributing of constructive ideas among fellow social media peers can make a difference, if not differences, to this fast-phased technological bounded universe.

@lightyoruichi: Harinder Singh is a Foursquare advocate and a social media enthusiast. He usually blogs on blog.lightyoruichi.com and tweets on @lightyoruichi. He is a geek and the most nerdiest person you'll ever know.

@hakimism: Hakim Albasrawy is a man of many hats, in 2008 he co-founded thisisbinding.com a web start-up focused on binding thesis for students. Not too long after that together with 3 other start-ups interested in social betterment he co-founded the movement UnReason, working primarily on the open data movement. This hat gives Hakim hope for the future of Malaysia. In 2010 he took up another hat he got involved in a consultancy (Tandemic) that provides social media support with a difference "social media for difference". Hakim often can be seen working in quiet cafes around KL and PJ and can be tweeted at @hakimism.

SMCpg #1: 7 October 2010 (Thursday), 7pm at Suntech @ Penang Cybercity (10th floor)

RSVP here: http://bit.ly/smcpg1

SMCpg #1 is supported by:

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Exabytes - Exabytes Network Sdn Bhd is a leading web hosting company based in malaysia that was founded on the principle of providing the best webhosting solutions to their customers. The story behind "Exabytes" as company's official name happened when CEO, Chan Kee Siak acknowledged the existence of a well-known company that goes with the name "Gigabytes".

Blissful Group - Blissful Group manages the first professionally managed garden mausoleum in Bukit Mertajam, Northern Malaysia. Blissful Memorial Park is affordable and constructed based on oriental architectural designs with good accessibility.

Tribeup - Tribeup is a new-media marketing agency rooted in strategy, creative online community organizing and campaign management.

JimmyAng - Founded in 2010 but started shooting since 1988. Changing pictures and snapshots into fine-art pieces.

 
Sep 23 / 1:48am

Are you on the map?

by Tjun

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Have you ever noticed that your friends are posting their locations in Facebook or Twitter? Did you ever wonder how come your friends are able to display their location and the map of their location? Did a thought came up in your mind thinking "Wow, what kind of application is that?" or "Oh no, its another game application.".

Well, its not a game application. The postings you saw is a geo-location social network called Foursquare. 

What is Foursquare? 
“Foursquare is a mobile application that is a cross between a friend-finder, a social city-guide, and a game that rewards you for doing interesting things. Foursquare lets you “check in” to a place when you’re there, tell friends where you are, and track the history of where you’ve been–and who you’ve been there with. Foursquare challenges you to explore your city in new and fun ways by earning points, winning mayorships, and unlocking badges and specials for trying new places and revisiting old favorites.”

There are also other geo-location social networks like Gowalla, Brightkite, Loopt and others alike you might want to try.

One of the features in Foursquare are the badges. This badges are earned by users as achievements to prove that you are actively socialising in various location. It also encourages friendly competition among friends to see who is more social. One of those badges is the Swarm Badge. In order to acquire this badge, a criteria of 50+ check ins is needed at one location in the last 3 hours. Quite a lot users needed to achieve this right?

For your information, SMCPg will be organising an event on the 7th October at Suntech @ Penang Cybercity with the theme "Are you on the map?". The event will feature a panel discussion by seasoned social media users on geo-location social networking. Why use it? Can it be used to help businesses? How to use it smartly? This discussion is meant to answer all those questions.

The event also has a goal to achieve the first ever swarm badge in Penang as it was never achieved in any location in Penang. Getting 50+ people to check-in at one location? The world is watching to see if Penang is able to get its very own swarm badge. Geo-location social networking is going to be a social media wave that will hit the mainstream by storm. So why not show that Penang is surfing the wave?

So are you on the map?