Barcamp Singapore 3
The Barcamp Singapore 3 organized by Preetam Rai and team was so spectacularly successful that I stayed the entire day. Very rare for one whose attention span is worse than that of a goldfish.
Taking a peek at the Barcamp Sessions
- Brian Koh live blogged about Coleman Yee’s session on ‘How to bluff your way through Information Architecture’.
- Bernard Leong did an interesting analysis on ‘How to Predict the Firing of Football Managers’. Now if he did the same for football matches (maybe he does, in private. hmm).
- Ivan Chew (Rambling Librarian) gave an excellent and informative session on ‘How to produce and publish your Music Album online, practically free’.
- Cullen Hartley touched on Social Media from the Perspective of an Educator – illuminating and thought provoking stuff. I don’t know why but I can’t embed his slides here. Click on his post to view the slides. In fact, someone should write about social media from a parent’s view too (not me though, I am too lazy).
- Samantha Chan who gave an engagingly interactive session on ‘10 ways (or more) on how social media is changing your life’ to much laughter from the audience. What can I say. The lady’s personality shone through.
- Werewolf – Barcamp game
Great icebreaking game which led to much suspicion and laughter (I know, strange combination.) – I wish this had been introduced in the morning instead of the end of the day. Daniel CerVentus did a great job as the moderator.
- Photoshop Tips
Stefano Virgilli gave a very good talk on Photoshop tips but I couldn’t find the slides online.
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Event Summary
All in all, pretty good sessions, easy flow, comfortable ‘messiness’, candid sharing, lunch and tea provided for (typical Singaporean 
) and best of all it’s free.
Well, there were one or two sessions that made me go wtf? but as my mum always told me, if you have nothing good to say, don’t say it 
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Social Media
- Slide Share – Speakers’ slides
- Flickr – Photos from Barcamp SG 3
- Hashtags #barcampsg3 on Twitter
- Blog reactions on Barcamp SG 3
- Abhishek Kumar
- Chin Yong
- Kevin Lim
- Carlsson Chee
- Shalabh Pandey
- Thanks to Hisham for inviting me!!
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:13 am
hi rachel, thanks for coming over. we will do another barcamp in couple of months and we will try to bring in more varied set of presenters not just tech.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:38 am
Preetam: Congrats again on the success of Barcamp. I will definitely attend Barcamp 4. Holler if you need help
March 5th, 2009 at 12:22 am
Your mum’s right! About the “if you’ve nothing good to say, don’t say it”. Although increasingly I feel it’s more like “if you can’t point out what’s bad, nicely, then don’t say it”. Erm. I’m not very coherent here, am I? Ah well
March 5th, 2009 at 12:29 am
Ivan: Hey I do get what you mean and like the idea of that. Sometimes, pointing out what is not so nice in a nice way is a nice thing to do. Now, is it my time to be incoherent?