1. Two days of action packed engaging content within 30+ sessions, across three tracks covering all aspects of the social media & apps ecosystem.

To brands Facebook isn’t about playing games, it’s all about starting new relationships as well as building and supporting existing ones. With over 550 million users Facebook is something at brands cannot afford to ignore, but with over 3 million fan pages how do you stand out from your competition?

Pagemodo have created the fastest and easiest way to customize a fan page and make it stand out from the crowd. The Pagemodo’s Pagebuilder provides businesses with everything they need to create page that will:

1. Engage visitors from the moment they arrive with a dazzling welcome tab that tells your story.
2. Promote a business in a fun and effective way with video.
3. Hide special content behind a cover to entice visitors into becoming fans of your Facebook page.
4. Brings your Twitter feed to your Facebook page.
5. Make it easier for fans to reach you with questions and comments. Plus, those who submit a form to you are hot, new leads for your business!

You can learn more from Pagemodo’s co-founder Jakob Lykkegaard at SMWF Asia’s free-to-attend Social Media Hub at 1300 on the 2nd Sept who will be covering the benefits of creating a compelling facebook pages, using tabs and templates.
To register for day two of the SMWF Asia please click here.

An interactive conference deserves an interactive app. SMWF and Apps World Asia have teamed up with TalkBox to develop this year’s event app, bringing you a unique way to communicate at this year’s conference. TalkBox is all about sending messages with your voice. It’s an application dedicated to saving you the trouble and time of typing so you can get your message across fast! Talk the message and get your emotions delivered instantly, with no ambiguity in your meaning!

Forget SMS and BBM this is the new way to instantly communicate for free with no obligation to reply right away and the ability to listen back to the messages whenever you want.

The other exciting feature of TalkBox is that it gives you the ability to send voice tweets, that are restricted to 1 minute instead of 140 characters. (more…)

SMWF Asia are delighted to welcome back MEF for the 2nd year.  The Mobile Entertainment Forum will be hosting a free to attend session within the Developer/Social Media Hub on day two from 11.30am.

The MEF line up of sessions will explore the cross-over between the mobile app platform & social media and provide an insight into monetising, social commerce, location based marketing, mobile video and more

Kicking of the session, MEF Asia chairman, Colin Miles, will be presenting on how the mobile platform amplifies social media, followed by Arsenal F.C’s global  partnerships Rupert Daniel who will provide an insight into how premier league clubs are adopting mobile social media to engage with fanatical Asian supporters. (more…)

SMWF have teamed up with the Ritz Carlton, Singapore to offer all SMWF Asia visitors a discount rates for the duration of the show.

Please note: Rates are only available until the 15th Aug, so if you would like to stay at the hotel we recommend booking asap before allocation runs out.

Room Rates:
Deluxe Rooms, Kallang Bay View
S$ 320.00 per room, per night including 01 Buffet Breakfast & Internet

*This rate is available from the 31st Aug – 2nd Sept

To Book:
To take advantage of the above discounted room rates simply contact  The Ritz Carlton on (65) 6 337 8888 and quote Social Media World Forum.

The Ritz Carlton,
7 Raffles Avenue,
Singapore 039799
Singapore

Other Hotels located near the Suntec Centre include:

Hotel Grand Pacific                                               Price from:  S$220
101 Victoria Street
Singapore 188018
T : +65 6336 0811
E : reservations@hotelgrandpacific.com.sg W: www.hotelgrandpacific.com.sg/

HOTEL 81 – BUGIS                                                 Price from:  S$120 – 140
31 Middle Road Singapore 188995
T: + 65 6339 8181
W: www.hotel81.com.sg/h

The Mobile Entertainment Forum have partnered with Six Degrees to bring you a free half day on Mobile @ the Social Media World Forum Asia.

The Free to attend workshops provide a current overview of the mobile social networking market, highlighting obstacles from leading social networks, operators and start up mobile social networks.

When? 13.00 – 17:30pm – 22nd September

Where? Suntec Conference Centre, Singapore

Key topics covered include: (more…)

After the great success in London in March 2010, the Social TV Forum is continuing its journey to the Asian TV applications and widgets market (www.socialmedia-forum.com/asia) opening its doors at Suntec in Singapore on 22^nd September 2010.

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This year we are pleased to have introduced an advisory board of leading social media experts. The role of the SMWF Asia advisory board is to support us in shaping our 2-day conference agenda, by advising on key hot topics, and industry news, interactive conference formats, viewing speaker submissions, and continuously supporting the conference team so that we can always provide new ideas in the fast moving environment of Social Media.

We’d like to introduce our advisory board members:
-    Dr. Bernard Leong, Partner, Thymos Capital
-    Shalabh Pandey, Digital Marketing Entrepreneur, Singapore
-    Neal Sato, CTO, Mixi
-    Jamshed Wadia, Account and Co-Marketing Manager, Intel
-    Tania Chew, Consultant, Communications & Social Media Marketing
-    Jon Russell, Journalist, blogger & digital media consultant
-    Derrick Koh, ASEAN Communications Manager, Lenovo
-    Nicholas Aaron Khoo, Singapore Tech Blogger, Thinker and Learner
-    Benjamin Koe, Public Relations & Social Media Consultant

We’d like to thank all our members for their ongoing support, to ensure we deliver a top notch conference for our delegates.

To find out more about the SMWF Asia advisory board members, click here

With the conference agenda really starting to take shape, we thought we would update you on one of the highlights taking place on day 1!

Argha Sen, Head of Marketing and CRM, for Toys R Us Asia – the world’s #1 toy retailer, will be sharing his experiences of how Social Media fits into the marketing mix at Toys R Us.  His 20 minute speech will be taking place at 1430, and will be covering the following points:

1430       Case- Study -Social Media Marketing @ Toys R Us: THE INTEGRATION STORY
•    Integrating Mass Media, Events, PR, CRM, Digital Marketing and Social Media to create the Toys R Us magic
•    Case Studies – Transformers Revenge of The Fallen and Lan Kwai Fong Carnival: Taking Social Media to the Streets
•    The Good, The Bad, the Ugly
•    What Next: The Future is Here

If you are looking to hear specific examples of how a global brand has been heavily involved in Social Media, then this is a session not to be missed!

Argha Sen is responsible for managing Toys R Us marketing programs across 8 countries, spanning more than 100 retail stores. He also directs the multi-country Toys“R”Us Star Card CRM program, which was recently named the Best Loyalty Program in the ASIAN BRAND MARKETING EFFECTIVENESS Awards for the third year in a row.

Now based in Hong Kong, Argha travels extensively both for work and pleasure, loves to explore new cuisines and tastes, and blogs about food, drink and travel in his spare time.

If you would like to be considered as a speaker at this year’s SMWF Asia, check out our speaker submissions guidelines here

For SMWF Asia 2010, we are looking to create a cutting edge, thought provoking, interactive conference line up covering the advances of Social Media in the dynamic world of online marketing.  In true Social Media style we want to hear from you guys, on your thoughts, ideas and views to ensure the event provides a fully educational and inspiring experience for all our delegates SMWF Asia 2010 will take place on the 22nd & 23rd Sept at Suntec Conference Centre Singapore.
SPEAKER SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE:  30th JUNE 2010
Conference Facts:

Day One         Social Media / Social TV stream (intermediate > advanced level)

Day Two        Social Media stream (intermediate > advanced level)

Each conference session will last between 20 mins > 50 mins depending on the content level and format of the sessions.  Conference sessions will have between 100 > 250 delegates in attendance.  Sessions can feature single speakers, co-presentations or panels.

If you would like to be considered for a speaker slot at this year’s SMWF Asia, take a look at our proposal guidelines here.

Good luck with your submissions!