Get listed on 2009 Blogger Calendar

Posting this on behalf of the team behind creating of the 2009 Calendar. Namely Pat Law, Willy Foo and Daphne Maia.

If you would like to get listed in the calendar, please submit your details in this form.

Be part of 2009 Blogger Calendar!

Idea came from Pat and Willy will be taking the photos for bloggers.

Open for all bloggers in Singapore. It'll be a fun project! Let's just hope the group won't end up too big else we'll have to print an A2 size desktop calender! Wahahaha!

Form removed. Photoshoot is over.

Bloggers invited to visit Indonesia

Indonesian government will invite five foreign bloggers on a round trip to Yogyakarta and Bali as part of the Pesta Blogger 2008. The bloggers are from the United States, China/Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and Malaysia. The blogging trip is a novel activity for the Pesta Blogger, the largest national-scale bloggers’ gathering in Indonesia. The five bloggers would start their trip in Bali on November 17 before going to Yogyakarta and Jakarta.



Terms and Conditions

Supported by Indonesian Ministry of Cultural and Tourism, we would like to invite several international bloggers from any country to come and have a trip to three cities (Bali, Jogjakarta, Jakarta) in Indonesia leading to the event.

We are looking for bloggers (travel bloggers) that can post their experience, photos, people they meet, basically blogging about Indonesia and Indonesian people, and join the event.

The period for this trip is between Nov 17 - Nov 22 2009 and this is the itinerary:

The blogging trip schedule is as follows:

1. Denpasar, Bali (Mon, Nov 17 – Tue, Nov 18)
2. Jogjakarta (Wed, Nov 19 – Thu, Nov 20)
3. Jakarta (Fri, Nov 21 – Sat, Nov 22)

All expenses for this trip (transportation, accomodation, F&B, etc.) will be covered by Pesta Blogger 2008 and The Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

If you are a travel blogger (or a blogger who habitually writes about travel/tourism) from Singapore, Malaysia, China/HongKong, Australia, and USA and is interested to participate in this program, all you need to do is to send us an email containing your:

* full name (as written on your passport),
* country of origin,
* gender,
* age,
* phone number,
* email address,
* blog URL, and
* a short paragraph on why you’d like to participate in this blogging trip.

Don’t forget to put PB08-BLOGGING TRIP as the subject of your email.

We will wait for your email until October 22, 2008, and we’ll announce the 5 selected participants on October 24, 2008 through pestablogger.com. [UPDATE: the Chairman Wicaksono told me they will wait until the first week of November]

Throughout the trip, you’ll be expected to blog about Indonesia as a travel destination and the cultural heritage of the country as well as the interaction you’ll be having with local bloggers’ communities in Denpasar, Jogjakarta, and Jakarta. The trip will end up with the Pesta Blogger event in Jakarta, on Saturday, Nov 22, 2008.

For further information please contact: Enda Nasution. | Email: enda.nst at gmail.com | YM: enda_001 | +62 813 9487 1625

Information extracted from budiputra. Thanks Rinaz for the tips to this news.

Space for Rent @ Flea-a-Lot

I'd received a ping from the team running Flea-a-Lot, thought some of you might be interested to take part.



Rental Packages
Package 1: $55/2 days
For those who intend to mend their booths through the day!
- 1 Table (4ft x 2ft)
- 1 PVC Chair
- Tentage

Package 2: $40/day + 20% sales commission
For those who do not intend to stay throughout the day!
- Shared Table
- Tentage
- 1 staff to attend to your stall from 11am – 6pm.

Special REBATES!!!
- 20% if products are environmentally friendly OR made of recycled material
- 50% if products are organic
*Items will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

Special NOTE!!!
No plastic bags are allowed within the premises.
Official paper bags are chargeable at 10 cents per bag, and 100% of the funds collected will go towards the Bring Your Own Bag initiative.
You are allowed to pass on these charges to your customers

More details at http://www.fleaalot.com

PLEASE DO NOT ASK ME FOR MORE DETAILS. INTERESTED PARTY PLEASE CONTACT ORGANISERS DIRECTLY. THANKS!

Win 3 Macbook Air and Creative Vado Camera!

There's still time to submit your video! Stand a chance to win the 3 Macbook Air and Creative Vado camera!



Check out the details here!

Or you can help support fellow Singaporeans too who's taking part in the contest! Yes! You can vote for your favorite video and help them stand greater chance of winning!

Vote for your favorite here!

Sell Your Wares at Downtown East EHub by nEbO

If you're a youth entrepreneur, blogshop owner, start-up designers or just someone who loves making pretty and cute things but has no where to sell them.

NOW is the chance for you to start your very own business!


inQbox-like units available for rental

Rental ranges from $60 to $220/month depending on size of box and position.



The location is at 4th level of Downtown East E!(hub), just outside of Cathay Cinema.

There will be 4 Units, 5 Push Carts and WoW! Display for the youth. The Units, Push Carts and WoW! Display are located outside Cathay Cinema with high traffic flow.

The objective of this project is to promote Youth Entrepreneurship and Youth Creativity. nEbO will be providing the youth with the following support:
- Affordable Rental (Non Commerical Rate)
- High Traffic Flow and Visibility (Outside of cathay cinema)
- Structural Support from nEbO(Renovation is done by nEbO)
- Marketing Support from nEbO (nEbO will advertise on newspaper, magazines, etc...)
- Guidance from nEbO Cafe (E!hub) operators (Cafe operators to share their entrepreneur experience)
- Networking Opportunities (To know other business partners)

If you are keen to venture into your dreams and business, kindly call Garret @ 9685 7906.

Win Tickets to Anywhere with Tiger Airways!

If you've not heard, Ping.sg is giving away a pair of tickets to anywhere on Tiger Airways! Contest has been extended to one more week so there's still time for you to take part.



How to take part:

It's easy, all you have to do is write a blog entry about your most memorable holiday at your own blog and ping Ping.sg. Your holiday can be a real experience, or it can be fictional, it's up to you. It can be a text blog, an audio blog or video blog, it's up to you.

Be as creative as you can!

For more details and contest requirements, please visit the contest page.

Good luck!

Social Media Breakfast | Singapore is having brunch this time!

SMB4 is coming!! This time round, we’re finally adding some form to our Social Media Breakfast session! And the good news is, we’re doing lunch! We know how hard it is to wake up early on a Saturday morning, so we’re going to start slightly later this time.

Here are the details for Social Media Brunch 4:

Date: Oct 4 2008, Saturday
Venue: URA Gallery, at the Theatrette on 3rd storey of The URA Centre, 45 Maxwell Road (next to the famous Maxwell Food Centre)
Time: 11am to 2pm
Fee: *Any amount you think its worth

If you’re new to SMB|SG and is scratching your head wondering if you should join us, don’t have to scratch anymore! Just come! Everyone is very friendly and most of us are crazy people too! We talked about almost everything and anything under the sun! Yes! Not just on Social Media, New Media or any other media. And please don’t expect an invitation from us k! Cause there’s none! Just come! EVERYONE is welcome!

Find out more and programme highlight for SMB 4.

George Yeo Blogging Competition

I think this is a little late, but the closing date is extended to 10 Oct! So still got time! Can try try lah!

Open to all students in Singapore. Just need to share on your blog what you want to see Singapore like when you grow up. iPod Nano and iPod shuffle to be won.

More details can be found here.

If you're no more studying in school, don't need to check the contest out lah! We're too old for it already!

Good luck to all those who's taking part!

Review Opportunity for Bloggers in Malaysia

Yebber is running their first posting opportunity for bloggers in Malaysia!

They're looking for up to 50 bloggers to blog about Yebber Malaysia (http://my.yebber.com). If you meet the following requirements, send in your blog address and details to us now. *Only shortlisted bloggers will be notified.

Requirements

1. The participating blog must have been around for more than 6 months from date of latest post.


2. The participating blog must have at least 1 posts in the past 5 days.


3. The participating blogger has to live or work in Malaysia.


4. The participating post has to be in either English, Mandarin or Malay only.

If you are interested to take part in this posting opportunity, email the following details to bloggersnoticeboard (at) gmail (dot) com.

Full Name:
Date Year of birth:
Contact number:
Nationality:
Blog URL:
Blog feed URL:
Twitter/ Plurk username (if any):

For more details, please also email to bloggersnoticeboard (at) gmail (dot) com.

Heritage Starbloggers Wanted!

Stand a chance to win a Nintendo Wii or a PSP!

All you need to do is to share your thoughts on Singapore’s heritage and museums with NHB’s very first heritage star blogging contest! Drop by any of our eight museums and blog about them! Your entry could be about an intriguing artifact you encountered, or just your day out at the museum. Throw in an array of photographs, your two-cents worth and you’re about done! It’s that simple!


For more details, check out the Heritage Starbloggers Contest.

Embed Maps On Your Blog!

Now you can have maps on your blog or website! Great feature by GoThere.sg!

You can now have our maps on your own website. You can drag and zoom in and out of the maps. Here are some of the many things you can do on our embedded maps. Interact with the pins, they show information about a particular place. Click on a bus stop and find out what buses are plying a particular road. Clicking on a car park will show you the parking rates, nifty for finding the cheapest car park around a particular location. You can even read and add comments on a place such as a restaurant, bicycle shop, or even a lucky 4D/toto outlet. And you can do all these right from your website!

Check out their blog for more details! Or why not just try the feature out yourself?

Want to get your own .SG domain? Only $2.50 now!!

Found this promotion and thought some of the bloggers might be interested! $2.50 only! So cheap!! Hurry before the promotion ends!

"I love .SG" National Day Promotion (1 Aug - 31 Aug)

From 1 Aug 2008 - 31 Aug 2008, as part of a special .SG promotion with SGNIC, the following promotional prices are available for new registrations of domains for 1 year

* New registration of 2nd-level .SG: $2.50 for the first year (Usual Price: $40)
* New registration of .per.sg: $2.50 for the first year (Usual Price: $25)

For more terms and conditions, please click here!

>> Click here to register your .SG domain <<

NHB is hiring - Social Media Marketing

Assistant Manager/ Officer (Social Media Marketing)
Corporate Communications & Industry Promotion(Singapore)

Responsibilities:
* Plan and front NHB’s social media campaigns and initiatives to engage bloggers and drive online visitorship
* Webmaster and content editor for NHB’s corporate website and www.museums.com.sg
* Community manager for Yesterday.sg – Singapore’s first heritage and museums blog
* Coordinate with NHB's different institutions and agencies for all web-related matters
* Monitor and drive web visitorship, pageviews and memberships
* Produce monthly e-newsletter for NHB’s online members
* Develop and create simple web banners, EDMs, and other HTML based pages
* Manage e-Services such as quizzes, polls & surveys

Requirements:
* Possess a Polytechnic Diploma/Degree in mass communications, web design, IT or equivalent qualification
* Familiar with social media tools and platforms like blogs, podcasts, Facebook, Youtube, Flickr, Plurk, Jaiku, MySpace and others
* Proficient in web design and authoring tools like Dreamweaver, Front Page, and Adobe Photoshop
* Knowledgeable in HTML programming, and some Flash and Java Script programming
* Good writing, editorial skills and active bloggers preferable

Please email resume to NHB_CCIP_Careers@nhb.gov.sg

Above from Jobstreet.com.

Bloggers Product - Are there many now?

Is there such a term for products and gadgets? More and more people are starting their own blogs these days. Have the brands noticed this trend? Are there such things call bloggers product?

Being a blogger, I feel that there are essentials that any blogger will need or want to have. These things either will make their blogging experience more meaningful or makes it easier for them to update and share their experiences online.

The Essential Bloggers' Products

1. A good digital camera with video recording feature

2. A good mobile phone which allows bloggers to surf the internet, update their blog on the go, send emails, send photos and videos to their blogs or flickr account and allow high speed browsing.

3. A compact laptop that's light weight and portable.

4. Mobile broadband connections. Or the budget bloggers will try to tap onto Wireless@SG whenever possible.

5. Fuss free yet feature pack editing softwares for photos and videos.

Have you come across any product that you feel is a good blogger product? Post it on your blog and share with us. :)

Do you want to be the next Youth Addiction?

Youth Marketing Forum 2008

Then join us at The Youth Marketing Forum Asia 2008, Asia’s LARGEST gathering of youth experts & cool hunters to gain exciting insights on how you can keep youths craving for your brand. This is the chance for you to know just how you can effectively captivate the increasingly intriguing and “multi-tasking” youth segment of today.

With over 30 cool hunters & youth obsessed brands coming from across the globe and not forgetting over 25 “music, technology, sports & fashion crazy” youths on board, you definitely have to be at this event if you want to get into the heads of today’s increasingly complex youth and beat the competition in having your brand resonate with today’s youth culture and psyche.

More details at http://www.youthmarketingforum.com/

Social Media Breakfast 3

It's here! This Saturday at a super cool venue! Come join us if you're available! It's going to be an interesting session!

1000 - 1045: Arrivals & Introductions

1045 - 1130: Discussion topic: Blogger outreach programmes are catching on in Singapore. What does this mean for the company? For bloggers? For audiences?

1130 - 1300: Brunch & free roam of the museum.

There is a very loose agenda this time round and a central theme we'll be talking about will be with regards to blogger outreach programmes and what they mean to the different parties involved.

More details here and here in facebook.

Be a Samsung Ambassador

Samsung Insights

Be Samsung's Word-of-Mouth (WOM) Ambassador and you‘ll get to test-drive
Samsung's new products and also enjoy:

• Special discounts when you purchase their product after the trial period
• Refer your friends and they will be entitled to special discounts too

More details and sign-up at http://www.samsungtouch.sg/

Calling all Youth Entrepreneurs

De Coder's Cafe is requesting for Youth Entrepreneurs to set up businesses at nEbO Cafe (E!hub). nEbO is a youth project started by NTUC Club in 2007 to promote youth movement and to engage youth.

nEbO Cafe (E!hub) is going to convert part of the cafe into Youth Entrepreneur Space to promote Youth Entrepreneurship and Youth Creativity. The location is at 4th level of Downtown East E!(hub), just outside of Cathay Cinema. The theme of the Youth Entrepreneur Space is Street Transformation.

In addition to Youth Entrepreneur Space, nEbO Cafe (E!hub) also offers Push Carts and WoW! Display for the youth. Both the Push Carts and WoW! Display are located outside the cinema with high traffic flow. Youth are able to rent a 30cm x 30cm glass display slot off the WoW! Display to display their products and contact number.

The objective of this project is to promote Youth Entrepreneurship and Youth Creativity. We will be providing the youth with the following support:
- Affordable Rental (Much less than commerical rental)
- High Traffic Flow and Visibility (Outside of cathay cinema)
- Structural Support from nEbO(Renovation is done by nEbO)
- Marketing Support from nEbO (nEbO will advertise on newspaper, magazines, etc...)
- Guidance from nEbO Cafe (E!hub) operators (Cafe operators to share their entrepreneur experience)
- Networking Opportunities (To know other business partners)
- Monthly Meeting (Compulsory)

If you are keen to venture into your dreams and business, kindly call Garret @ 9685 7906 for more information. Please call/email by 17th Aug 2008 to indicate your interest.