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NOTE: Some technical notes and further thoughts about Shozu and social media integration:

# Shozu sends the media file to your blog but your viewers have to download the file to watch it on their PCs. To get the player above to integrate automatically, I set Shozu to send the video to my blip.tv account which I set to auto-update my two blogs - and voila, the player automatically appears.

# It would be good to see video integration with Facebook, not just still photos. So, again, I am using blip.tv’s Facebook interface for that.

# You can upload to Shozu via email from your phone or your email application. For this test, I used my email application.

I’m afraid I have very bad flu so I won’t be blogging for the next couple of weeks while I lie in bed feeling very sorry for myself.

Please do check back in a couple of weeks when I hope to be restored to vigour.

I’ve been invited to chair one of the discussion round tables at this event organised by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), UK later today.

Here is the blurb:

“Have you ever asked yourself:

# Is it really possible to manage change?

# Can our employees also be our brand ambassadors?

# To blog — or not to blog?

#Engagement — just the latest word for motivation/ commitment/loyalty?

#Can internal and external communication ever be aligned?

# Where can communication help in a crisis?

Come along to Speedexperience—Share the Knowledge to discuss these and other issues with experienced practitioners…

The date: Tuesday 9th October
The time: 5.45

The format: welcome drink, speed experience table discussions start 6.30 and end 7.45 with the opportunity to continue the discussions/informally and network over a glass of wine and nibbles.

The place: The Churchill Room (HMRC Parliament Street in Whitehall). From its historic balcony Sir Winston waved at the cheering crowds at the end of World War 2

The cost: £20

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How to book: http://iabcexperiencenetworking.eventbrite.com”

It may be a bit late to book online but if you are keen to come, contact Susan Walker via email: commevaluation[at]hotmail.com

Photo: thanks to wikipedia.org

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You may have received two email updates today - my apologies. Since I switched over to the new delivery system, there’s a short snagging period while I iron out the glitches. Thanks for your patience!

Following my plea for help the other day about businesses that blog in Malaysia, I got some helpful suggestions from a range of different sources. In addition to the business blogging landscape in Malaysia, I have added a section on the political blogging landscape there, in particular in the light of the recent government iniatitive to recruit a blogging squad to counter the claims of political bloggers. I’ve now completed my article for Communication World - which is hopefully going to be useful for its international audience of PR professionals, marketeers and business communicators.

I’d like to say thanks to the following people who generously contributed their suggestions, links and views for the article:

Richard for telling me about Wiley Chin at http://www.ximnet.com.my/thelab

Sharon Bakar at Bibliobibuli

Eric Forbes at the Book Addict’s Guide to Good Books

Kenny Sia at KennySia.com

Francis Ho of Kuching Kayak, who blogs at FH2O: Kuching Kayaking

Kevin Anderson, the Blogs Editor at The Guardian, UK who blogs at Strange Attractor

Asohan Aryaduray, the New Media Editor of The Star, Malaysia

Due to space/ word limitations, it’s not been possible to include in the articlea reference to all the suggestions and links that everyone gave me but I’ve squeezed in as much as I could.

I hope to be able to share the article with you on this blog when it is published in Communication World in a little while.

In association with Silvia Cambie, Director of Chanda Communications, we are jointly publishing a hard copy newsletter, New Media Culture, which we will be giving out at conferences and workshops. We have just brought out Issue 1, which we circulated at the IABC Leadership Institute in Slovenia last week.

The pdf version of the first issue of New Media Culture and also subsequent issues will also be available online - click on the tab for Events & Resources at the top of the ZenGuide site.

You can also download a copy by clicking on the title below.

New Media Culture Issue 1: Why Blog? - the practical benefits of blogging ; Trading Secrets for Dialogue - the case for engaging in social media

Please feel free to circulate copies to anyone else who may find it interesting.

Note: ZenGuide is updated on Mondays and Thursdays.

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You will see the password-protected post that was uploaded a minute or so ago, IABC - Slovenia: Resources. This contains additional resources for IABC members who are currently attending the IABC Leadership Institute conference in Lubljiana and who are participating in the round table discussion on New Media that I am chairing there.

I hope for those who come along to the round table, we will be able to continue the discussion online after the conference via email and/ or comments and further posts here on ZenGuide following up on the issues we discuss. If anyone would like to contribute an article as a guestblogger on ZenGuide, please do contact me via the Contact link at the top of this page - in particular, if you do not yet have a blog or a forum you can easily access to share your views, being a guestblogger is a great way to start engaging in online conversations.

Next week, I’ll be highlighting some of the issues that came out of the round table discussions and inviting all my readers to comment and share your views.

Photo of Slovenia: thanks to mackintravel.com

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Invitation Only

1. Guest blogging is by invitation only. I will usually invite specific guests to blog but occasionally, there will be an open invitation to readers to submit their stories/ posts.

Open Invitation Guest Blogging

2. Posts can be up to a maximimum of 1000 words and must be relevant to the topic that the open invitation relates to. Submissions should be contained in an email in simple formatting so I can copy and paste it into the blog. Regarding style and content:

# Read the posts already on the blog to get a sense of the tone and feel of ZenGuide

# Generally, the focus is on blogging, social media and technology, focusing on their practical uses and advantages for businesses, in particular relating to business communications, marketing and PR.

3. Please also provide your full name, email address and any website, together with a description of who and where you are eg. Lee Tan, 36, a computer programmer in Utrecht, Netherlands. The description can be like the “About the Author” paragraph in a book - this is so that Fusion View readers can get a sense of who you are and your context and and then you need not explain who you are in the actual post.

In the spirit of community blogging, your full name and description will be added to your post so that my readers can appreciate your post in your personal context.

Anonymous submissions will be automatically ignored.

4. I will consider submissions and decide if an entry is suitable for posting on ZenGuide. This is my personal blog and my decision is final. I may edit the post and/ or I may ask you to edit or make amendments to it for clarity and/ or relevance. I will let you know by email if your submission will be posted or not. This blog is run by me alone so please bear with me.

5. I cannot make payment for Guest Blogger posts. I hope that you will submit your post in a community spirit and enjoy the benefit of offering your writing/ story to the ZenGuide global readership. For this reason, copyright remains with the author of the post.

6. In return, I would ask is that you link to ZenGuide (if you have a website) or refer potential readers to ZenGuide to help me build a community around this blog. The link is http://www.zenguide.co.uk

Guest Blogger Views

5. The views expressed by guest bloggers are entirely their own and do not necesssarily represent my views.

How to submit your story

You can email your story by using the “Email me” link in the sidebar.

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