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!

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.

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.