Review: Tough Love – Web in Travel 2009

WIT – 5 years on – Web In Travel celebrated its 5th birthday and even though it was my first WIT, I came away with the understanding that the conference has depth and sincerity that can only be achieved through trust.

Stage for WIT 2009

On arrival, I was handed a program guide and tucked inside was a list of what must be the who’s who of the online travel industry that were attending.

One of the Many Panels of Experts

I am now going to proceed and summarise my WIT 2009 journey in the best way I know – the social media way = keywords.

Enlightening, profound, humorous, creative, conflicting, old ways, new ways, homemade cookies, social media, engagement, search, entrepreneurship, mentors, students, Twitter, status, community, art, opinions, fear, deals, Facebook, style, value, graffiti, empathy, monitor, react, pre-emptive, classic, roses, luxury, budget, holistic, experience, destinations, in your face, google, to serve, passion, tough love, did I say Facebook?

NEW: Twitter Roost @ WIT

Special mention needs to be made relating to the events discussion I witnessed, even with prompting by distinguished moderator – there seemed to be no obvious understanding or relevance or decisive recognition of how social media might have an enormous impact on the events business. I can only direct those in the events business to a review of an event I was involved in that clearly shows how events can deliver superior results if you engage a community online in somewhere like Facebook.

David Meerman Scott speaks Tattoos – http://www.webinknow.com/2009/01/how-an-active-facebook-group-drove-15000-people-to-the-singapore-tattoo-show.html

[Yeoh Siew Hoon our Host]

My congrats to Yeoh Siew Hoon (SHY) and her team on Web In Travel 2009. Happy 5th Birthday. – APLINK.

Willy Foo - facebook guy... leads the crew

All images courtesy of Willy Foo – to see the entire set visit:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?page=1&aid=166745&id=719891275

Entrepreneurship in Singapore is ALIVE ?

I sometimes consider and wonder why I push my career and social life to the OUTER LIMITS of normality and what many consider traditional and main-stay business – but everytime I consider that I should swing myself back to what REAL people do, the thought kinda seriously bores me and my enthusiasm for living is deminished. (joke)

The real challenges for me I think and what drives me is BREAKING the RULES and finding NEW ways of doing things. There is a group in Singapore called sgentrepreneurs visit http://sgentrepreneurs.com/events/2009/08/15/events-for-the-week-of-15-22nd-aug/ for their eye on what is happening in Singapore for Entrepreneurs this week.

Fostering and reporting on Entrepreneurship is vital to forging new business opportunities to existing issues and issues we can’t even think of now  – Congrats sgentrepreneurs.com – keep it coming…

so… Is Entrepreneurship in Singapore ALIVE ?  Can you see your ideas come to REALITY where you are today or could Singapore give them life ?

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