Borneo 2.0 Dialogue

Today social media is everywhere. What started out as an online blogging community in Borneo has now expanded into a huge online social media community of people using tools such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. With that in mind, B2.0 – an annual conference that recognizes such community recently held its third conference to gather influential figures in one location to introduce and educate individuals and businesses on how to adopt and effectively take advantage of social media.

This annual event which started 2 years ago was initiated by BorneoColours.com, Borneo's largest community portal, at Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Organized by BorneoColours.com in collaboration with M.E Malaysia, the third B2.0 took place on Saturday, 1^st December at Wisma Bandaraya from 9am onwards and was attended by 60 professionals.

Prominent speakers such as Jared Lee (Grim Film), @kkcity (Kota Kinabalu's top tweeter), Thanis Lim (Cookie Monster), Murphy Ng (Sabah Tourism), Jack Baxter George (Everyday Food I Love), Reeda Malik (AnakBrunei), Tai KL (DiGi), Kathleen Lim (Microsoft), Sue Ann Tang (Nuffnang), Moses Wong (Film Production Sabah), Tristan Lee Riven (Team Sprocket) presented and discussed various topics such as are Rise of Social Media, Image Sharing Madness, Social Media For Gamers, Rise of Mobile Applications & Nuffnang X, DiGi In Support Of Social Media, Social media via Windows 8, and YouTube Generation & Social Media Unveiled.

From left: Murphy,Thanis,Pejal and Jack.
Quite interesting to learn more methods to get your blog read. 

The third B2.0 is proudly presented by Acer Sales & Services Sdn Bhd, the first company to launch the full suite of Windows 8 product with touch capability and DiGi Telecommunications. It is supported by Ministry of Resource Development & Information Technology, Nuffnang Malaysia, Canon, Bombers Burger, Film Production of Sabah and Creative Lasso. Borneo Colours and M.E Malaysia for organizing the event.

Ministry of Resource Development & Information Technology, Nuffnang Malaysia, Canon, Bombers Burger, Film Production of Sabah and Creative Lasso for their support as well. Borneo Colours and M.E Malaysia for organizing the event.

Ministry of Resource Development & Information Technology, Nuffnang Malaysia, Canon, Bombers Burger, Film Production of Sabah and Creative Lasso for their support as well.

Reeda
He shares about the importance and impact of sharing photos online. 

Tristan from Team Sprocket discuss about the impact of biased game journalist. 

I love this session the most! 

Moses and Jared talks about film production. 

Wearing hipster glasses must be the trend for film makers now. =P

Tai KL from Naga DDB representing Digi talks about steps to market Brands and how Digi does it. 

Kathleen from Microsoft talks about the new Windows8.
She used a lot of filler words and I got bored. 

Su Ann from Nuffnang talks about NuffnangX mobile app. 

This young man here won the Acer Iconia W510 tab! *jealous max*

I got sponsored by Digi to attend B2.0 and I must say I enjoyed interacting with social media players from Borneo. I do hope more Sarawakians and even Indonesian can get involved in this social media movement. Make Borneo known to the world!