31 Sunday May 2009
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The Mavericks are at it again. Jakarta’s second Pecha Kucha night will have the theme Metro Retro and it will be held on June 18. Check out the posting and the video to find out more.
more about "Coming on June 18: Pecha Kucha #2 in …", posted with vodpod
31 Sunday May 2009
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31 Sunday May 2009
Which part of Indonesian culture do such social media practices crawl out from?
(assuming, of course, that the Jakarta Post is accurate in its reporting)
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29 Friday May 2009
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29 Friday May 2009
Posted in Public Relations
(Thanks to Terence for sending this over)
29 Friday May 2009
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Rp4.5 million (or about US$420) per month is what the Alliance of Indeoendent Journalists think as reported in Hukumonline.com (via Rob of The RAB experience, who has a very cute son).
Is this high enough to ensure that there is quality journalism in Indonesia?
A Fair Wage for Journalists
Friday, 29 May 2009 | 01:18:50
AJI Releases its 2009 Fair Wage for Journalists
The journalist profession is one that is determined by deadlines. However, a deadline must never be construed as an arbitrary number of working hours. The reality is that journalist might put in many more hours than the minimum to get their story to print on time. It is these time sacrifices that the Alliance of Independent Journalists (Aliansi Jurnalis Independen / AJI) seeks to recognize in its annual report on the fair wage for journalists in Jakarta.
AJI is of the view that there are many media companies who do not adequately recognize the contributions of their journalists. In an effort to assist those companies in recognizing a fair universal wage for all journalists AJI has done the research on the company’s behalf and established a fair minimum wage.
So, for the past two years AJI has provided a guideline minimum fair wage for Jakarta-based journalists. The announcement of the 2009 minimum fair wage was made amongst considerable fanfare at the AJI Secretariat in Jakarta on Tuesday (26/05). The number, IDR 4.5 million per month, is not surprising considering that the previous year the minimum fair wage according to AJI was IDR 4.1 million per month. The 2009 figure reflects inflationary pressures. In comparison, the minimum monthly wage for Jakarta’s workers, as set by the Regional Government, stands at around IDR 1 million.
via read more.
29 Friday May 2009
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One of the things we told participants at Maverick’s PR and New Media Workshop on Tuesday this week was that we had a feeling that there would be many developments in new media in Indonesia and overseas this year. It looks like this prediction is coming to pass.
One of Unspun‘s friends recently sent him an email where Yahoo is looking for a country editor for Indonesia. I’ve attached the email at the bottom of this posting for anyone interested in the position.
In the meantime, the venerable New York Times, has taken a huge step into cyberspace with the appointment of its first “social media editor”. Here’s a clip of the story that appeared in The Jakarta Globe today:
As each day passes, it becomes ever more evident that social media – yes blogs, Twitter, plurk, Facebook…- has to be taken seriously, or at least cannot be ignored.
The question to Indonesian companies is: what are you doing about it, assuming that you have any idea at all what social media is all about? Continue reading »
28 Thursday May 2009
Unspun recently was followed by Matanews.com, so checked out their website which turned up to be a news portal. The website is scant on news or information about who’s behind Matanews though, except for some names on the Dewan Redaksi.
Who are these guys and how does one get "more actual" than actual?
Unspun‘s sleuth tried to find out but this is what she says:
The Dewan Redaksi are is Aloysius M. Rebong (Aloy), Borkat Haboaran, Hotzon Sirait, Mahawisnu T. Alam and Lia Ismail. The site is under Newslink Corporation where Aloy is the Director. Not much results on Aloy and Borkat (Borkat used to work in Bidik—a police/law-enforcement magazine). Mahawisnu T. Alam is a law consultant in William, Effendi & Co.; according to HukumOnline. This is his FB profile: http://www.facebook.com/people/Mahawisnu-Tridaya-Alam/572976239
So who are these guys?
28 Thursday May 2009
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It’s a good feeling when you do something and it seems to be appreciated because others found it useful and even eye-opening.
That’s what we at Maverick’s New Media Division felt at the end of the day on Tuesday, after conducting our first workshop on Public Relations and New Media at the Intercontinental Hotel in Jakarta.
Ndoro Kakung shares insights with participants
We had 38 participants, which was great since we had aimed to sign up only 35 people. We could have tried to get more participants but we wanted to confine it to a small groups so that it would be a better learning and sharing experience.
The participants were mostly in-house PR practitioners, but also included some marketing people, from an eclectic mix of industries – mining, banking, automotive, FMCG, IT, retail…and also a handful of NGOs that have been working with Maverick as part of our Social Leadership Program.
28 Thursday May 2009
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Unspun, being a boy who loves his toys, had been a friend of Palm from way back, from the first clunky organizer (by today’s standards) right up to the smartphones such as the Treo.
Then the Centro came along and although it wasn’t a very good phone the Palm operating system was still great. Unspun also loved the many features, the friendly the user interface and the ease with which the Palm could synchronize with Window and the Mac. These were the features that adhered Unspun to Palm and its products. But by then Palm had become a tired brand. There was nothing new, it offered no new features, applications were few and no new applications were coming into the market.
The Centro, however, killed Unspun‘s love affair with Palm because it was a piece of crap. It was unstable and Palm by then did not have the service to back up the phone’s deficiencies in Indonesia. So Unspun began to look around for another phone. He tried the Nokia E71 and found that it was unnecessarily complicated and user unfriendly. He sold the phone off within a week of buying it.
That virtually left the Blackberry Bold as the only contender Continue reading »
