Tag: user generated content

Six Qualities of Successful Bloggers

July 27, 2014 • Content Marketing, Social Influence • no comments


Have you voted for your favourite blogger yet? (from Singapore Blog Awards 2014)

Yes, it is time yet again for the Singapore Blog Awards. Organised by Omy.sg, this annual competition cum celebration of what’s new, hot and happening in the blogging scene is in its 7th year running, with over $30,000 worth of prizes to be won.

This year’s awards has a total of nine Editors’/Judges’ Choice categories and three new Followers categories. Other than the old favourites like Best Family blog, Best Food blog, and Best Photography blog, a Best New Blog award category has been created to acknowledge newbie bloggers who started their blogs in the past year.

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Blending Interestingness and Intensity

November 9, 2010 • Social Influence • 1 comment

Blending Interestingness and Intensity
Cai Guo Qiang’s artworks are a blend of interestingness with intensity (courtesy of Topical Musings)

Anybody who is plugged into the new world of marketing knows that the centres of gravity have shifted.

With the gradual death of the “hard sell” marketer, consumers are increasingly attracted to a new breed of advocates and influencers.

This new generation of opinion leaders and shapers are found both inside and outside today’s organisations.

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Celebrating National Day via Social Technologies

August 9, 2010 • Blog • no comments

NDP 2010 Preview Pics!
Courtesy of NDPeeps (on flickr)

As we celebrate our 45th year of independence across the island in many different ways, I thought it’d be interesting to see how this is being done in the digital dimension. Gauging from the amount of national day related posts, Facebook updates, tagged photographs, videos and other User Generated Content (UGC), we are certainly not lacking in patriotic spirit here!

A good place to start would be the official National Day Parade 2010 (NDP 2010) website, which looks like it is a website, UGC aggregator, and social media portal all rolled into one. I was immediately wowed by the clickable mosaic of different citizen-generated content on the home page, which brings you to short posts complete with photographs of what Singaporeans and residents feel about our national birthday.

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