SOCMM12: Pakistan India Social Media Mela 2012 Karachi – Day 1

Pakistan India Social Media Mela 2012, dubbed as SOCMM12, is organized at Avari Towers Hotel in Karachi on July 13 and 14.

The Mela has an extensive (read never-ending) list of speakers, more of Pakistan and rare from India.

Some interesting bits and pieces from the Day 1 of SOCMM12.

What the Social Media Mela was all about?

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Aman ki Asha and the Kashmir Genocide: The liberals, apparently in-charge of the Mela, as usual went gaga over India – forgetting how the Muslims of Kashmir are killed everyday by brutal Indian forces.

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RT @Nazir_QB: Story of rage boy dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4….& how his suffering was portrayed twitter.com/icashmir/statu… at #socmm12 .Shame!

— xplorer (@peacify) July 13, 2012

The deep and burning desire by liberals of Pakistan who want to do anything to themselves and to the honour of Pakistan to get a friendly nod from India.

You get liberal when it comes to Maya Khan and when it comes to Kashmir you stay quiet don’t even want to discuss… #FakeLiberals #Socmm12

— Nadia Anwar (@nadiaanwar89) July 13, 2012

The Yellow Bloggers: A session was about how corporates are using Social Media and blogging for their benefit – raising questions on the authenticity and professionalism of such bloggers who churn out fav reviews for their sponsor brands.

What do you call the bloggers who take benefits from Corporates to write favourable blog posts?

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Who were the organizers?: People got curious about the organizers as no detail is available on their website.

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@MansoorGeoNews Who funded #socmm12 for these twitter personalities? Who is behind this show? Who are the Organizers?

— McPeer (@McPeer1) July 13, 2012

The event was sponsored by the US Consulate in Pakistan, and they made no attempt to hide the fact (as Abu Shamil reports).


Besides Twitter, what other Social Media tool was discussed at SOCMM12?

@norbalm @faisalkapadia can they just start calling social media, twitter already. What other ‘social media’ is there #SOCMM12

— بلال أطهر جليل (@bilaljalil) July 13, 2012

Mainstream Media and Twitter:

Twitter is a tool we use very carefully at Tehelka – its not a news crowdsourcing tool but rather a networking tool -Karuna #socmm12

— Salman Latif (@SalmanLateef) July 13, 2012

Main stream media of Pakistan has to realize this.

In the end, SOCMM12 was not about praying, or worrying to miss a prayer.

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