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Workshop: NGO 2.0
Posted In: BlogFest09 by admin on October 28, 2009
Here’s the draft program for one of the workshop on November 8th (Sun):
Title: NGO 2.0 – building the social web for social change
Workshop Chair: Charles Chuang (莊友欣 | about)
Time: 10:00~12:00
Session 1: NGO 2.0 – an introduction (40mins)
Everything is online. Everything is online and 2.0. But how NGOs in
all-scale could leverage the inner power of 2.0? Following recent four
years discussions about NGO 2.0, we will go thru the foundations of
Web 2.0 and promote the openness, standardization and sociality for
NGO 2.0.
Session 2: CiviCRM – case study (40mins)
CiviCRM is an constituent relationship management solution, designed
specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and
non-governmental groups. CiviCRM gives you the tools to connect and
activate your supporters, including online fundraising and donor
management, event registration and participant tracking, membership
management, personalized email blasts and newsletters. We will provide
in-depth case study to demonstrate the benefits NGO could get via
CiviCRM.Session 3: Group Discussion (40mins)
We will have two group discussions lead by Richard Chui & Charles
Chuang with different focus on CiviCRM implementation and NGO with
social web/open source.
Travel Support Announcement part 2
Posted In: BlogFest09 by admin on October 25, 2009
Congrats to the following applicants who are selected to participating Blogfest.Asia ‘09 with travel fund support (list in random order):
- Supadej Sutthiphongkanasai (Thailand) F
- Kla Tangsuwan (Thailand) F
- Tra Dang (Vietnam) F
- Chakard Chalayut (Thailand) F
- Hoan Le Khac (Vietnam) F
Note: (F)ull / (P)artial
We also confirmed travel support to three bloggers from Burma / Myanmar, and their names will be disclosed when / where appropriate.
You can also see the result of 1st batch selection here. With that we will have totally 21 bloggers to join the event with travel support. Total number of registration up to date is about 120 (coming from nearly 20 countries).
The selection process is now officially closed. Thanks for those who applied, and also to the sponsors / supporters.
Are You R-E-A-D-Y?
Posted In: BlogFest09 by admin on October 23, 2009
Like most of you, we are very excited (and a bit nervous to be frank) as the event approaches. All of us in DotAsia (the local host) realized that we are putting a real pan-Asian event in less than 2-month time. As we all gear up to get things ready, many inquiries are sent over to us regarding flight plan, hotel booking, who I will be seeing, what else can do done, etc. So here’s some updated / useful info for all attendees:
- If you’re requesting letter of invitation, please send your full name (as in passport), passport number, country where the passport was issued to info at blogfest dot asia
- About hotel reservation: We have made 3 recommendations (see this link). We are able to get a group discount rate from Cityview. If you prefer Metropark Mongkok or Eaton, you should contact either of them directly. If you’d like us to help you get a room at Cityview, you MUST SEND US AN INQUIRY BEFORE OCT. 28 to secure your booking. If you would like to share room with other person, please indicate in your email too. You can also book the at nearby hotel which is not listed above.
- If you are granted with travel fund support, most likely we will reimburse you during the event. Details of such process to be determined, but please make sure you keep all original receipts (flight record / invoice in print, boarding pass). Note that we will have 2nd batch of selection result to be announced shortly.
- Lunch for 11/6 and 11/7 — we will help order lunch box for those who need it. There will be a sign-up sheet and you can pay at registration desk.
- We are working on getting good coverage of WiFi and power extension / outlet at the venue. There’s no kiosk or WiFi card rental at the venue. You should bring your own laptop or other Internet divice.
- We need volunteers to help manage twitter / coveritlive update and photographers. Please help!
- We are finalizing details with WebWednesday. Stay tuned
We have not decided about what to do on Saturday (11/7), and would like to hear from all participants. Leave a comment here or have a chat on twitter.
Travel Support Announcement part 1
Posted In: BlogFest09 by admin on October 20, 2009
Congrats to the following applicants who are selected to participating Blogfest.Asia ’09 with partial or full travel fund support (list in random order):
- Portnoy Zheng (Taiwan) P
- Odontunya Tsetsegdelger (Mongolia) P
- Oliver “Blogie” Robillo (Philippines) P
- Juned Sonido (Philippines) P
- Boris Yang (Taiwan) P
- Bun Tharum (Cambodia) P
- Charles Chuang (Taiwan) F
- Anthony Ian (Tonyo) Cruz (Philippines) F
- Pitra Satvika (Indonesia) F
- Irene Velska (Kazakhstan) F
- Rinat Tuhvatshin (Kyrgyzstan) F
Note: (F)ull / (P)artial
The list above is the first batch from the selection process. There will be 2nd batch — to be announced shortly. Please come back and check.
We would like to thank every applicant for the interest and enthusiasm. The list in general shows a good diversity of geographic representation of Asia. The selected ones are the bloggers with strong dedication, passion and encourage. They represents true voice from their community as well as the gateway for the regional dialog of Asia / Asians.
A lot of bloggers will be traveling on their own cost and we truly thank them for the support as well. So, see you all soon in Hong Kong!