BlogFest.Asia 2010 (Day 2)

The 2nd day of the event was held at Wawasan Open University. It's fully packed with talks, sharing sessions & workshops with different interests that are very informative & useful in helping the blogger community to improve from where we are now in microblogging.

We arrived at the university at around 9:00am & straightly went to register ourselves. All participating bloggers were getting a BlogFest.Asia 2010 T-shirt, certificate of attendance, name tag, booklet, notebook & other goodies in an environmental friendly shopping bag.

Registration Counter


Once got ourselves registered, we headed to the lecture hall. The event started with warm welcomimg speech by Jeremiah Foo, representing the organizing commitee of the BlogFest.Asia 2010. He & all of us, the Malaysian bloggers welcomed all the participating bloggers from Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Philipines, Singapore, Taiwan & India (Hope that I didn't missed out any country here).

Welcoming Speech by Jeremiah Foo

Next, the invited speaker, Prof. Peter Herford gave the keynote speech. He started his speech with the first presentation slide showing the number of active bloggers in China. He explained how technology was created by human being from their scientific discoveries & then brought up an open question to us on what is the future of human civilization. From day to day, more & more advanced technologies are applied to ease our daily life & improve our quality of life such as in medical, automobile & comsumer electrical appliances but at the same time they are widely applied for military use as well. Remote military aircrafts & nuclear weapons are good examples. Thus, are we bringing our civilization ahead or we're in self-destructive mode of bringing it backward?

Keynote Address by Prof. Peter Herford


Next, we had our tea break before continuing with a forum-like discussion on Microblogging versus Facebook. There are 4 invited panels. They are the representatives of the participating bloggers community from each of the country: Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia & Myanmar.

Forum: Microblogging & Facebook, Synergy or Threat?

Each panel started to share on the current microblogging trend & situation in their country and give their personal feedback on whether the existence of Facebook is a synergy or threat to microblogging.


There are a few topics that caught my interest in. One of them was a point brought up by Jeremiah that those people who are writing about their daily life, on small-small personal event e.g. his / her neighbour's dog is pissing is not considered as bloggers. Hmmm, I'm not sure whether I tend to agree with his point.


Everyone has different purpose & expectation on microblogging. Some people handle & maintain their blog in a professional way, providing regular quality updates / posts and maintaining their blogs very well. There are people who use their blog as a personal diary, writing every single little thing that crosses his / her mind while some use their blog as a private space just to write to express their feeling. To me, whether you're a blogger is not important. So, just be yourself & write in your way. Internet is about freedom. :-D


Besides the invited panels, members on the floor were participating actively in the discussion as well. Some were seeking for clarifications while some sharing their thoughts & experiences.



After the session was lunch time. Everyone was hungry. We enjoyed our lunch before going for the workshops. Here are some photos taken during tea break & lunch time.

Lunch Time




After lunch, we went to 2 workshops. The first workshop was Commercial Blogging - How to get your blog noticed by Alvin from OMY Singapore & the 2nd one was 部落掘墓,电台超渡 by 张吉安 from i-fm.

It was a great experience & fun joining this event. The workshops are very informative. It served as a place to gather all the bloggers across different countries to share thoughts & experiences as well. We should bring more this kind of activities / events to Penang / Malaysia. :-D

Photoset: BlogFest.Asia 2010

4 Responses to "BlogFest.Asia 2010 (Day 2)"

Happy walker said... October 5, 2010 at 2:45 PM

hehe.. dropped by ~ from blog fest asia too ~ XD

kelvin-tan said... October 6, 2010 at 12:36 AM

thanks for dropping by. :-D

钪凯 said... October 15, 2010 at 6:42 PM

Nice photo kelvin...and THANKS !

kelvin-tan said... October 15, 2010 at 9:29 PM

thanks, khan khai.

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