2008-11-12

We'll be talking the status of start-ups and funding options with Henry Oh, Co-Founder of the Hong Kong Start-Up Association and Socialutions, his own new venture.

Henry is also a songwriter and film maker and avid proponent of Free Culture and Creative Commons. (We covered CC in-depth in our last social mixer; listen to the podcast here).

Henry met his business partner (Rodney Lloyd) at Web Wednesday in Hong Kong. In honour of our role in bringing them together, Henry will launch his new venture, "WikiEnterprise" at this social mixer.

The common theme underlying Socialutions will be a focus on social benefit (e.g. renewable energy, open source, Creative Commons).

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2008-09-17

Now that the net has become the place for writers, musicians, photographers, artists and all other creative types to promote and distribute their works, we will be discussing a new way to share, remix and reuse this content - legally! - using Creative Commons.

Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

Our guest speaker will be Rebecca MacKinnon, Project Lead for Creative Commons Hong Kong and Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre. Rebecca is also a prolific blogger and micro-blogs in English and Chinese on her Twitter account.

We will also be inviting a couple of local Hong Kong start ups who use creative commons as a base for sharing content on their websites.

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2008-08-20

"How are newspapers tackling the multimedia age?"

Come join our 15th social networking event. Meet, mix, learn and share your experiences in a casual and friendly atmosphere.

This month, Napoleon Biggs interviews two media experts who are helping their newspaper organisations move into the digital realm:

Michael Logan, Multimedia Editor for the South China Morning Post (SCMP.com) who has pioneered the print newspaper's venture into audio and video podcast.

Sam Hui, Business Director for Next Media Interactive (AtNext.com, appleactionnews.com). Sam is the man behind many of the Apple Daily's ventures into the internet space.

As the event is 2 days before the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony, we will naturally also discuss how online news organisations are using the internet to cover such as large scale event.

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