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Before the recording of the GennY podcast last night, I had short discussions with Brian Koh and Daryl Tay on social media amongst other things like wondering why am I part of Generation Y when I am born in 1981. Wikipedia says so okay!

My question to them was, “Are we representative of the Generation Ys in the world or even Singapore?”

I realize that I am quite the odd one out amongst my peers in the way I engage in social media for example. My peers are now discovering micro blogging/status updates through Facebook while I am already using Plurk and Twitter for almost a year. Friends are turning to blogs for reading while I am already juggling hundreds of RSS feeds in my Google Reader. The examples are endless but my point is that people like Brian, Daryl and myself are actually a minority amongst the Gen Ys even when comparing the younger end of the Gen Y spectrum.

Brian pointed out that we are probably the front runners in this aspect but I am still not seeing the curve in the graph where I should find most of my peers start joining me in my exhibitionist ways in social media.

 

So am I a front runner or am I running in the wrong direction?

Social Media Breakfast (SMB) is happening again! It’s the 6th time that it has been organized it’s going to be held at Tangs this Saturday.

Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009
Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: Island Cafe, Tangs, Orchard

 

Yeah I know, everyone is wondering why Social Media BREAKFAST is held during dinnertime but let’s not go there.

I do realize that I have been attending only the even numbered SMBs so far, and it’s not even on purpose! And on this 3rd time that I will be attending, I am actually on the panel! Daryl invited me to share about ‘Business to Consumer Engagement’ and I am still not sure how much I can offer to the attendees considering how hard it is for businesses to get money or participation from me.

So register yourself on the and come down this Saturday if you are interested in the local social media scene and network with all the great people that will be there. There will also be the launch of the Virtual Tangs Store in Second Life and support for Earth Hour at 8.30pm.

If that isn’t interesting enough, come down and watch me make a fool out of myself!

Thanks to an invitation from Daryl of uniquefrequency.com, I am involved in my first ever podcast.

It’s called ‘The GennY Podcast” and it’s a group of people from Generation Y (Gen Ys) coming together to talk about what Gen Ys are known for. Ourselves.

Wahahahahahaha~!!!

Image by Ingrid

The initial voices in the pilot episode are of Daryl, Dorothy, , and myself and future episodes will most likely have other Gen Ys taking part depending on who is available.

Here is the 1st episode!

[podcast]https://krisandro.com/podcast/the-genny-podcast/Genny_Episode_001.mp3[/podcast]

 

The show notes:

• 00:00 – Krisandro starts us off – introductions all round
• 00:53 – The topic: How is Gen Y different in the work force?
• 01:28 – Will Gen Y mindset change during the recession?
• 02:26 – Gen Y has no qualms with changing jobs, even in a recession
• 03:39 – Perhaps Gen Y feels there isn’t enough recognition at work
• 05:08 – Did the media influence Gen Y’s outlook on life?
• 07:56 – How is Gen Y different outside the workspace in peer-to-peer interactions?
• 09:57 – How does online interaction affect offline interaction?
• 10:51 – Krisandro claims he’s 19
• 11:01 – Are there different norms that apply online and offline?
• 11:58 – Maybe it’s easier for us to verify if people are weirdos online
• 15:10 – Blooper!

 

It was definitely a fun experience, especially when all of us are very new to this. I totally hate my voice as usual. I can’t sing and I can’t even talk without sounding like a frog with limited vocal tones!

Any feedback or suggestions on what topic to cover is most welcomed!

Thanks to Ahjay of Porter Novelli for the pic above!

 

KuKuNehNeh (KKNN) and myself were invited by Estee Teo for a Bloggers Event by Gillette. First up was a nice brunch spread from Serenity and were given a goodie bag each that consisted of a Gillette Power Fusion Atom, Gillette Fusion Hydra Gel and a media kit. To top it all off, we were given a pair of tickets to watch the latest James Bond flick with Gold Class tickets from Golden Village @ Vivocity.

KKNN and I are not fans of Bond but who would pass up on tickets to watch a blockbuster in $30 seats?

Many bloggers have already covered their experience on the event of the brunch and the movie but I will like to touch on something else. After attending quite a bit of blogger events so far, I am most impressed and most intrigued by this particular one. Not because Xiaxue was there, not because of the good food and not because of the freebies. Er… okay. I do admit that I love the Gillette Power Fusion Phantom to death and it is THAT GOOD even though I cannot grow any form of respectable facial hair.

I remember reading about Uniquefrequency’s post titled “Don’t Be The Insurance Salesman At The Party – Doing It Right“, which was on a Samsung event in which I had the privilege to attend. The article that Uniquefrequency wrote is about Daniel Goh who ‘did it right’ by working on relations with the bloggers for some time before organizing an event which in itself, was very nicely organized with no ‘in-your-face’ branding that one might expect.

Now, if the Samsung event was being mild on the branding, the Gillette event’s branding was almost non-existant!

There was no presentation. No contest and nothing to be won. Besides the media kit that is sitting in the goodie bag and the Gillette commercials that were running on TVs during the brunch, there was no mention of Gillette at all by the people from P&G and Porter Novelli! In fact, the ONLY time when Gillette was brought up during the event was when I was conversing with Edwin from P&G and it was me who brought up the topic of the differences between the battery powered Gillette Fusion and the non battery ones.

I really appreciate the team from P&G and Porter Novelli for organizing such a non-pushy event. If there are looking to work long term with the bloggers, this is definitely a great start to a good blogger-brand relationship.

Gillette is also holding an exciting contest! Details below!

 

Oh! As for the picture of me and Xiaxue..

Here it is….

Fidelis, Me & Xiaxue

 

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