{"id":2806,"date":"2008-10-21T17:35:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T00:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/21\/tokyo-blogger-dinner\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T00:25:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T07:25:01","slug":"tokyo-blogger-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/21\/tokyo-blogger-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Blogger Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Japan's<\/a>
\nAbove photo: I had a great time discussing the impact of social media on culture and business in Japan with Tokyo’s top bloggers. Image taken by Andrew Shuttleworth<\/a> –used with permission<\/p>\n

The following portion is updated the day after the blogger dinner.<\/p>\n

Read Michael Whang’s blog report of “Tokyo 2.0”<\/a>
\nJonathen Browne posts his thoughts on the movers and shakers of Toyko<\/a><\/p>\n

Last night’s blogger dinner with Tokyo’s finest was interesting, aside from meeting the movers and shakers in this space, discussed the social web and it’s impact on culture, we had a fun time enjoying food and drinks.<\/p>\n

I encouraged the attendees not to socialize but to also think about how social technologies impact culture, business, and Japan, we had some very interesting discussions, and the viewpoints from many of the ex-pats were often similar to the Japanese. I met some of the social media evangelists at large Japanese companies, as well as entrepreneurs, professional bloggers, and local VCs. <\/p>\n

As I tried to circulate to many of the different tables, I started to hear patterns in the discussions. I asked folks to think about the adoption of these tools (this graph aboves shows a high degree of consumption by ‘spectators’<\/a>) yet I quickly learned that many corporations are not participating with these tools, there’s just a handful of companies using these tools in public (Nissan, Sanyo, and several are conducting buzz marketing efforts). I’m still formulating my thoughts on why this is the case and what can be done –but I want to loop back with Jonathan Browne<\/a>, Forrester’s expert on Japanese Customer Experience to bounce of him as a sounding board –more to come on this topic soon.<\/p>\n

\n

Original post below.
\nI’m excited to meet Tokyo’s top bloggers at a community blogger dinner<\/a>, I’m cruising through many of the attendees blogs before the event, sadly, about half of them I’m unable to read –gotta learn Japanese. Here’s the lineup for tonight, quite a few ex-pats.<\/p>\n

Akihitok’s polar bear blog<\/a>
\nAndrew Shuttleworth<\/a>
\nTokyo Reporter<\/a>
\nClast<\/a> English blog about consumer and media insights in Japan
\nDominic Carter<\/a> : Tokyo resident and food lover, in English
\nWhat’s happening in Japan right now<\/a>: English blog
\nGen Kenai<\/a>: I’ve met Gen before, and pretty much everyone knows him in Japan to Silicon Valley
\nSmart Security Blog<\/a>
\nJonathan Browne<\/a> is Forrester’s analyst in Japan, English and Japanese
\nKaorine’s blog<\/a>:
\nKristopher Tate<\/a>: Founder of Zooomr and personal friend of mine
\nPrimetime<\/a>
\nMatt Romaine<\/a>
\nMichael Whang is from Toronto, blogs about technology<\/a>
\nMikihiro Yasuda<\/a>
\nNob Seki<\/a>
\nRobert Sanzalone<\/a>
\nShin Fukushige<\/a>: a returnee venture capitalist living and working in Tokyo
\nICHINOHE Blog<\/a>
\nHonjo Biz<\/a>
\nDseneste<\/a>
\nThe Western World<\/a>
\nJ-Magic<\/a>
\nTaromatsumura<\/a>
\nSocial Media Marketing<\/a>: This one, I really wish I could read.
\nIT Blog Jiji<\/a>
\nBlog Myrss<\/a>
\nIf I missed anyone, leave a comment, I’ll add you in.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll add my notes and pictures to this post later.<\/p>\n

See you tonight!<\/p>\n

While we’re all connected by bits and bytes, there’s nothing like meeting people in real life, I’ve met bloggers all over the world, you can see the archives, I’ll be adding to this over the years, it’s a great journey.<\/p>\n

The following pics were taken by Midori Allen of Forrester and used with permission


\n\"Jeremiah<\/a>\"Jeremiah<\/a>\"Jeremiah<\/a>
\n\"Jeremiah<\/a>\"Jeremiah<\/a>\"Jeremiah<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Above photo: I had a great time discussing the impact of social media on culture and business in Japan with Tokyo’s top bloggers. Image taken by Andrew Shuttleworth –used with permission The following portion is updated the day after the blogger dinner. Read Michael Whang’s … Continue readingTokyo Blogger Dinner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-blogger-dinner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}