Ping.sg is 3 Today

Hard to believe, it has been 3 years since we first started.

We have certainly come a long way to be at what we are at now.

Thanks to all the Pingsters for the continual support and believing in us. Every single one of you have made it possible for us to go on this long and we hope that you have also benefited from our site, either in increasing of traffic to your site or in making new friends.

Yes, it’s our birthday today, but unfortunately, we are also scheduling a downtime some time later today. It’s a bad time to go down, but we had to expand. Don’t worry, it will only be for less than 2 hours.

Thank you all and happy 3rd anniversary to Ping.sg!

More made-in-Singapore Podcasts

Adding on to the small community of local podcast productions, namely Mr Brown and the Tech65 crew, this week, we see the launch of two new podcasts by local bloggers and ex-radio personality. Have you checked them out yet?

The GennY Podcast

by Daryl, Kris, Dorothy, Yin and Yinqi
The podcast is available in all their blogs. Should be able to subscribe to them in iTunes real soon!

Morning Jam
by Shareen Wong and Joe Augustin
A daily podcast! This is not going to be easy. All the best to the team! You can tune-in to their first episode here.

Check out the daily Morning Jam podcast here.

We are sure looking forward to more made-in-Singapore podcasts coming our way!

You’ve got to be at BlogOUT!

There has been much happening last year in the social media scene. And people have been wanting to find out more and learn more about it. And here’s the chance, right here in Singapore! One of the most happening line-up of speakers and topic. If you’re in the social media (new media) industry, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be attending.

Let’s take a look at the topics:

• “Communications Inside Out” by Joel Postman, Intridea
  Now that the social media “dust” has settled, many companies feel like they’ve made the transition to a stable, predictable, Web 2.0 world. Not so fast! Joel Postman, author of SocialCorp: Social Media Goes Corporate, will conduct a conversation about a second wave of changes underway or rapidly approaching. Communications Inside Out, based on the final chapter of Joel‘s book, is loosely structured around five key shifts in perceptions about what social media is, and how it behaves:
  Speed–>Brevity
  Managed Participation–>Chaos
  Letting Go–>Taking Back
  Engagement–>Doing Business
  Wild Wild West–>Civilized World
  For example, the attention span of the average person online has grown shorter and shorter, and with it, the length and duration of online content has similarly been reduced. Online videos, once considered ”short” at three minutes, are now less than a minute, or even a few seconds in length. Entire “blog posts” have been reduced to 140 characters on sites like Twitter. In other words, while the emphasis in social media was on speed, it is now on brevity. Similar shifts have taken place elsewhere. Joel‘s presentation will take a random walk through a handful of such shifts, helping participants better understand the nature and role of social media in the future.
• “Measuring the unmeasurable! Social media’s effect on your organization in terms of smiles, karma and dollars” by Jon Yongfook, Egg & Co
  In this talk we will discuss the problems of measuring social media ROI and look at ideas and methods to implement and measure the success of both qualitative (such as conversation-starting) and quantitative (such as generation of new leads or sales) sides of an organization’s social media strategy.
• “Top 10 Social Media FAQs for Business” by Tania Chew, Ogilvy
  Covering questions such as “Is Facebook right for my company” and “What do I do about negative commentary in the blogosphere”? She will also be showing a few examples of companies who’ve done it right and talk through
  those.
• and many more!

Don’t miss it! Join us all at BlogOUT!

Using a very old phrase…
“Be there or be square!“

Ping.sg Official T-Shirt Launch cum Bloggers’ Gathering

Hi Pingsters,

The Ping.sg Official T-Shirt Launch cum Bloggers’ Gathering event registration page is finally up!

Please register yourselves for the event here.

It’s going to be an awesome gathering, so come on down and meet us!

If you are a newcomer at Ping.sg, fret not, you will not be the only one. We are a bunch of warm and friendly people, so go ahead and confirm your seat today!

If you are a regular / resident at the Ping.sg shoutbox, you’d better make sure you’ll be there!

Here is the winner of the T-shirt designing contest that we had some weeks back. After compiling the results of the poll and your various feedback, our final design is as below:

We have THREE specially-priced dinner and T-shirt packages just for you! So check out our event page and….

We can’t wait to see you there!

Love,
The Ping.sg Team