June 3, 2010, 18:49
Thailand-based author Christopher G. Moore has commented on last night’s Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (FCCT) event “Thailand in the Eyes of Others”. Moore reports that both the all-Thai panel and the questioners in the audience completely ignored the role of new media in the recent troubles in Bangkok:-
“The evening was mainly a Thai critique on the international TV news about how the Thais in political conflict were presented to an international audience. In particular, the panel, as were Thai questioners, were highly critical of TV coverage by CNN and BBC. [...] The digital world was largely ignored [...] Thousands of images, videos and commentary reached a larger world through the Internet.
“What Thailand in May 2010 has demonstrated is that news that shape international public opinion is no longer limited to TV network news. News coverage has expanded far beyond TV and the traditional print media. The old way of gathering, reporting, accessing and, indeed through comments, participating in the news has fundamentally changed.”
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November 10, 2008, 18:00
The goal of any organisation’s communications team is to continuously inform stakeholders of activities, initiatives and the benefits of new and existing products. But how do they know they’re being heard?
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October 30, 2008, 19:49
Tomorrow I leave the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) in good spirits knowing that over five and a half years I have contributed to an organisation that does some outstanding work for travel and tourism in Asia Pacific.
In fact, I hope to stay engaged with PATA in some capacity in my new role as “knowledge management and communications specialist” with the ASEAN Competitiveness Enhancement (ACE) Project; and hope that together we can do so much more.
One of my most recent achievements at PATA, and probably the one I’m most proud of (despite it being almost as easy as this blog to set up) is creating PATA’s Sustainable Tourism Wiki [which has since become The "Good Tourism" Wiki].
Having watched Wikipedia become one of the hottest URLs in cyberspace in recent years it became blindingly obvious to me that the wiki model was perfect for PATA and its efforts to deal with the huge subject area called “sustainable tourism“.
“Sustainable” and “responsible” are two words the Association has in its mission statement:-
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October 30, 2008, 17:26
… to learn as much as I can about new media.
And as technology evolves ever faster, the hill only gets steeper.
Fortunately, for those of us who actually use these media, its almost too easy.
It’s as natural to young kids today as it was me plugging in my Tandy TRS-80 (pictured) to play “Dino Wars” (Beware: clicking the Dino Wars link will yield very little information about the game!)
This blog, for example, took a couple of minutes to set up. (However, I did spend a lot of time “umming” and “ahhing” over which design template I should use! … and ended up with the default theme.) [Since changed.]
Setting up’s one thing. Maintaining is quite another.
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