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This is the third time I am conducting a course on new media communications for the Civil Service College at the Singapore Management University. Each time is a new experience, learning about how each individual and each agency has or is planning to leverage new media for communications.
As always, it’s a barrel of fun, but it’s also encouraging to see Singapore’s public agencies take a greater interest in exploring new vistas of communication, extending their mode–and depth–of engagement with their stakeholders.
Over the two days, participants–many of them holding corporate communications functions, which is excellent–are brought through macro trends of new media in Singapore, case studies of new media communications by pioneer agencies and practitioners, and hands-on interactive sessions on conceptualizing and producing new media content for social media platforms such as blogs, Flickr, YouTube, and podcasts.
The participants come from agencies such as Singapore Civil Defence Force, Ministry of Defence, Competition Commission of Singapore, REACH, Ministry of Community, Youth and Sports, Ministry of Information, Communication & the Arts, Singapore Tote Board, Singapore Customs, and many more.
The next run will be Q12009. Come join us. See you at SMU.
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Had a jaunt in ever-bustling Bangkok just a couple of weeks ago, and decided to share some pics. Ok, there are no sounds to accompany since I didn’t take any videos, but here goes.
Wat Po (วัดโพธิ์) — Also known as the Temple of the Reclining Buddha or Wat Phra Chetuphon (วัดพระเชตุพน), it is an important Buddhist temple adjacent to the Grand Palace. The temple is also known as the birthplace of Thai massage, and the complex houses a Thai massage school.
Vimanmek Palace ( วิมานเมฆ) — Otherwise known as the Vimanmek Mansion, it was built on royal command by King Rama V (King Chulalongkorn) in 1900. Constructed without using a single nail, Vimanmek Mansion is the world’s largest golden teakwood mansion with its elaborate architectural style reflecting a western influence. Since 1932, it has housed a collection of gifts given to King Rama V from royalties, governments, and personages from various parts of the world.
Suvarnabhumi Airport (ท่าอากาศยานสุวรรณภูมิ) — After numerous delays and more that two decades in the planning, Suvarnabhumi–roughly translatable to mean “the golden kingdom”–finally opened in 2006. The airport interior adopts a stark, post-modernist industrial look, but may come across as unfinished to some. Almost as soon as it was opened, Thai airport authorities realized that it was already operating at near full-capacity, and decided to reopen the former international airport, Don Mueang, for domestic flights.
