Clogger's Life: An Introduction to Cambodian Blogophere

ogger’s Life

28 February 2009

An Introduction to Cambodian Blogosphere

Agenda

• Clogger: What? Who? Why?• Clogger’s Events• Social Influence• Clogger: What’s Next?• Questions?• Discussion

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Cloggers Events

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Tech Meet Ups

Personal Information Technology Workshop

Contents:•Online Communications• Personal News• Personal Publishing• Personal Photos• Personal File Sharing•Khmer Unicode

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~ 20 Universities with ~ 2500 audience

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Cambodian Bloggers SummitObjectives:• Knowledge exchange• Networking locally and internationally• Engaging traditional media, civil society,

development agencies and private entities to new Tech and Cloggers.

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Participants:• 100 bloggers from within and outside

Cambodia• 15 local and international media

(newspaper, TV and radio)• 30 local and international organizations• 20 Cambodian journalists• IT personnel from 15 universities in PP

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Connecting Cambodian Bloggers

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~ 300 participantsBroad range of topics

Citizen Media

VBlog

Podcast

Social NetworkingNon-profits

Weblog Tools

Web DesignCMS

ComputingCommunications

E-learning

Women & ICT

Open Source

Tech Meet Ups

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Event Preparation

Chit Chat

Topic Discussion

Meeting new faces

What do we blog?

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Cambodia

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Hobbies / Talents

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Everyday Life

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Knowledge

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How are we influencing the society?

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Social Influence

• Networking (link getting longer)

• Social Activities/ Community services (Youth festival)

• Knowledge Exchange (blog about history, local/int’l news, entertainment, technology, art, …)

• Tourism attractiveness (cambodia culture from every aspects)

• Expressing Ideas/Talents (View on Politics, Photography, art, design, writing, movie makers ect.)

• Media, development agencies, civil society’s attention (Cloggers on the frontpage of newspaper, on CNN, on TV, increase in sponsorship from different org.)

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What’s Next?

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Cloggers plan to

• Organize more events• Increase active participation in social activities and

community services• Encourage online social media (i.e. KI media) and use

blogging to influence the society to the next level (Fundraising, Video blogging, Forum discussion etc.)

• Connect blogger community in Cambodia and all the ASEAN countries

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Questions?

Discussion Questions?

• How to encourage more Cambodians to blog?

• How do we take Cambodian blogosphere to the next level?

• How to connect all bloggers within ASEAN community?

THANK YOU