Malaysia International Tourism Bloggers Conference and Awards

This year Ministry of tourism Malaysia will be organising the inaugural Conference (MITBCA2012) and coinciding with it is an award for bloggers who blog about Tourism and Malaysia. This event is in colloboration with Social Media Chambers of Malaysia. The conference will be held at Seri Pacific Hotel Kuala Lumpur on 8th and 9th May 2012 while the Awards at Saloma Bistro, in Jalan Ampang.

Organising this conference means Ministry of Tourism (MOTOUR) has took on social media to reach the public and promote Malaysia as a tourism destination while at the same time honouring tourism bloggers for helping promoting the country across the globe.

The two days conference is expected to be attended by social media aggregators, media personnels and those in the tourism industry. There are also invited speakers and I found one while doing a search on the internet. Of course I have registered myself.

The bloggers award will be held at Saloma Bistro just next to MOTOUR. Nomination for the award will still be open until 24th April and nomination criteria can be found HERE. Voting has already been open and will end on 1st of May 2012.

I submitted this blog under two categories that is

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I hope those who read this is generous enough to vote this blog and in appreciation to your vote, I humbly thank your effort in advance. 

At BlogforFT Prize Presentation

28 March 2010 is quite a memorable night for me. I attended the prize presentation ceremony for the BlogforFT contest and I had won a Blackberry and two Celcom Broadband stick with one month free access. Eventhough it was just a consolation prize (Special Jury Award Prize), but to be able to win something is quite an honour. What more out of more than 4,000 submission, my blog falls in the top 25. I even emerge as the Top 5 highest contributor.  

The presentation ceremony packaged with dinner was held at the Sime Darby Convention Centre in Bukit Kiara. It was a much awaited moment for the winners after more than two month waiting since the contest ended. The event was attended by the Minister of Federal Territory and Urban Wellness, Datuk Raja Nong Chik, who gave away the prizes. 

The grand prize winner for the open category was won by Emila Yusof who walk away with a Peugeot 308 VTi while nikicheong (Cheong Peck Beng) with a Kia  Optima Novus in the media category. 

Me....? What did I win? I won these.......

Thanks to the judges for selecting my posting as among the 25 blogger to win the special jury prize and also the Top 5 contributors. 

Blogging Into The Limelight

Bloggers, the future is bright for you. When you jumped onto the blogging bandwagon, you had made the right choice in choosing your interest. Bloggers and blogging is emerging in the limelight lately. Even though it is not officiated, bloggers are becoming important and necessary to accomodate the development of the new media and changing lifestyles. More and more people are patronising the cyberspace 24 /7 and in today's availability of mobile gadgets, makes dissemination of information through the internet a necessity. Thats the reason bloggers are becoming more important especially in marketing of products. One of the reason is that, its economical and marketing is borderless as compared to traditional marketing strategies.

In September 2009, an internet advertising company, Nuffnang, launched the first online TV shows about bloggers with seven top Malaysian bloggers for the first season, called Project Alpha. In collaboration with the show, Nuffnang also organise blog writing contest, open to bloggers to post entries about the respective bloggers weekly. Indirectly entries do help not only to promote the selected bloggers but also helps market Nuffnang and the sponsors product and minimum costing.

On 6th of October Ministry of Federal Territories launched the Blog4FT blogging contest as an effort to promote the three Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan. This contest too not only helps to "sell" Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan to the world but indirectly increase the blogging population and motivate more people to blog and paralell to that, improving  writing skills and their internet savvy.

Today when I visited The Pavillion, I came to know of another event for bloggers, the Live Mannequin Blogathon held at Tang's.

The four bloggers 'thrashing' against one another behind the glass for 24 hours are Cheeserland, Huai Bin, KY  Speaks and Wernshen.  More details HERE. Photo below I grab from sixthseal show the bloggers involved.

So bloggers, you are going  to be future ambassadors in cyberspace........keep writing.