new media landscape lect.

Guest Speaker if the Day -

“Lionel Chin is the co-founder of Ripplewerkz, which is an all in one design house which offers high quality Web, Blog, Print and Corporate ID development. Boasting an impressive portfolio of projects such as Nuffnang, Prominent bloggers/Celebrities (eg. Allan Wu (The Amazing Race Asia), Wong Lilin (Mediacorp), Nico Chua (FM 933 DJ), Lunch Actually, Airtrade and The Eurasian Association (Singapore) etc, the name Lionel Chin certainly resonates in the digital industry.”

5 KEY POINTS MENTIONED:

1. The working world in this society is more tougher than what we students think.

I agree with what the speaker said about this as we need to depend on ourselves in a way to “fight” to get a place  for ourselves and in school, things are provided for you whereas in the society, you have to know how to socialize well and also work on very hard in order to impress the people there. It is like a fighting for survival in the wroking realm.

2. It is better to start off as a freelancher.

Through freelanch, we can get many experiences and as well as people and also gain our conficence as more and more people appreciate or work and it is a good way to start.

3.  Twitter is an important new media tool right now in society.

I find this quite true as more and more people are using it to advertise themselves and their work through tweeting tjhe links up for people to take a look and more and more business people are using it as a tool to reach out to people and get attention from new “customers”. And by advertising, more people will be aware of what you are doing and those interested can follow you for more details.

4. Portfolio is very important.

Our portfolio is important to us as this is the thing that will help us to gain our clients trust in a way. With the portfolio, the clients will be able to see the compilation of work the person did. At the same time, it will help you to be able to work with your client easier as things can be done more quickly if there is any changes made after discussion with the clients of how things can de done.

5.  You need to learn how to market ourselves.

This is one of the skills that we need to learn in order to increase your presence in te society. Many people are doing the same thing as you are doing in this society, you need to have this skills so that people will be able to know about you and this helps you a lot in this competition of the working world.

3 THINGS THAT INSPIRED ME

1. Him.

It is really something to see a young guy of an age gap not that far away from others to be able to be so successful in our society and moreover, a TP student once.

2. The amount of revenue that can be earned.

It really inspires me as it gives me an impression not to despise your youth as you may not know what your e.g design talent ( as a web designer) can help you to earn that much. It is not about age, but your skills and experience.

3. about blogs.

The speaker gave me a different perspective about a blog. As most people use it as a personal “diary” where they would link their frends and read each other’s blog.But from this presentation, I got to know that actually a blog vcan help someone earn money too, other than blogshops.

The presentatiion of the day was really very useful as not only does the speaker talks about the “tips and tricks”, which can help us by alot by knowing it and doing it in our near future. We also get a clear picture of  how the society flows thorugh his sharing of his personal experience and it is through this personal teatimonial that will really convince us and inspire us to study and work hard in school for our near future.

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