Marlon Parker is a South Africa based social media educator. He is visiting the UK, including Birmingham, in July 2009. Ahead of his planned visit to Interactive Cultures, he was good enough to send us an overview of some of the social media activity he has been involved with in and around Cape Town.
Among other things, we’re in the midst of putting together a funding proposal for a study of Music Consumption in the Digital Age, in partnership with Fat Northerner Records. We recently went to Manchester to meet with a group of music industry representatives, to generate interest in the project and, hopefully, to attract people who would act as an advisory board, if the bid is successful. We asked Ruth Daniel of Fat Northerner to reflect upon the proceedings.
Kevin Ho graduated from Birmingham City University in 2003. Since 2004 he has been a development producer at the Right Angle Media, an independent production house based in Singapore that specialises in factual content. His job is to come up with ideas, develop them and pitch them to channels. Kevin has developed concepts for local Singaporean channels as well as international channels, including the National Geographic Channel, Discovery Asia, History Channel Asia and BBC Knowledge. He was good enough to send us a guest post relating our work to his industry experiences in South East Asia.
Continue reading