Program
Thursday Sept 30, 2010
0800 – 2300 Guests Arrival, Registration and Check-in to Hotel
Friday Oct 1, 2010
0900 – 1800 Penang Heritage Tour (limited to 40 pax)
1900 – 2300 Welcome Dinner hosted by Ministry of Tourism Malaysia
Saturday Oct 2, 2010
0900 – 0930 Pleasantries and Welcome Speech cum presentation of gifts (at level 5, theater 2)
0930 – 1030 Keynote Address by Prof. Peter Herford
1030 – 1100 Tea Break
1100 – 1200 Social networking sites and micro-blogging: Synergy or threat to the blogosphere?
1200 – 1300 Lunch Break (at Ground Floor Cafeteria)
1300 – 1630 **Breakout Sessions Part 1 (at Level 2)
| 1300 – 1400 | Multimedia blogging and its future (Room 11) ~ by Podcaster John Ong & Willy | Commercial Blogging – How to get your blog noticed?(Room 6) ~ by Mr Alvin, OMY Singapore | Tactical Technology Collective workshop 1: Video screening of “10 Tactics” [notes] (Room 2) |
| 1415 – 1515 | Journalistic values for documenting events via your blogs (Room 11) ~ by Ms Masjaliza Hamzah, CIJ Malaysia. | 部落掘墓,电台超渡 (Room 6) ~ by 张吉安 (Mandarin) | Tactical Technology Collective workshop 2: Video screening of “ONO” [notes] (Room 2) |
| 1530 – 1630 | Use of New Media in Education (Room11) ~ by Wawasan Open University & Shantou University Mr Jeremiah Foo | Speed Up Your Blog With Content Delivery Network (CDN) (Room 6) ~ by Mr Chan, CEO OF Exabytes | Tactical Technology Collective workshop 3: Security and Privacy Awareness [notes] (Room 2) |
1800 – 2000 Dinner Hosted by Penang State Government @ Wawasan Open University
2000 – 2230 2010 Mybloggercon Awards (at level 5 theater 1)
2300 – 0200 Party till drop
Sunday Oct 3, 2010
0900 – 1000 Country Reports: the changing faces of social media (at level 5 theater 1)
1000 – 1030 Tea Break
1030 – 1200 New Media: New frontiers of Politics
1200 – 1300 Lunch Break
1300 – 1630 **Breakout Sessions Part 2 (at level 2)
| 1300 – 1400 | Organising people in the cyber and real world (Room 11) ~ Htaike Htaike, Kounila Keo, Mark Agana | Workshop: WordPress Multisite (Room 6) ~ by Mr Chan, CEO of Exebytes | Tactical Technology Collective workshop 1: Video screening of “10 Tactics” [notes] (Room 11) |
| 1415 – 1515 | Internet freedom and responsibilities (Room 11) ~ by South East Asia Media Legal Defense Network | Empowering Media Technologies (Room 6) | Tactical Technology Collective workshop 2: Video screening of “ONO” [notes] (Room 11) |
| 1530 – 1630 | Is Creating audio and video content for blogs really that difficult? (Room 11) ~ by Mr Jeremiah Foo and Sam Hui | Photography and travelogue through blogs (Room 6) | Tactical Technology Collective workshop 3: Security and Privacy Awareness [notes] (Room 11) |
1700 – 1800 Wrap up and Bye bye.
Monday October 4, 2010
Departure Day
**the facility can accommodate multiple concurrent breakout sessions, the program will be updated from time to time.





