‘Internet is the soul of Aristotle’s social animal’, it wouldn’t be wrong to quote this quotation in this century. In addition to it, the soul of internet is Social Media. One needs to understand the role of Social Media nowadays. Where the revolutionary movements are initiated, social contribution is contributed, businesses are sparkled, ideas are promoted, feelings are shared, and brands are branded. Welcome to the world of Social Media!
The rapid wave of Social Media around the world, has taken Pakistan also in its waves. Recently an event was organized in Karachi at T2F named “Social Media Baithak” by Xenith Digital on 2nd, 3rd & 4th Nov 2012. It was a 3 daylong event focusing on the affectivity of Social Media by having a panel discussion with Social Media Gurus.
On 3rd day of Social Media Baithak-SMB, the panelists were Faizan A Laghari, Danial Shah, Lollipop and Laddu, Zaigham Hidayatullah, Bilal Lakhani, Karachi food diary, Shoaib Taimur and Kachee Goliyan.
The event was mainly attended by different bloggers, entrepreneurs, social media activists and journalists. The event was consecutively followed on Twitter with the hash tag #SocialMediaBaithak. That was the beauty of SMB where they were engaging the twitterers on their topic. Not only had this but SMB had trending on Twitter as well by discussing it on large scale on Twitter in Pakistan.
The crowd was overwhelmed with the start of Faizan A Laghari where he mentioned that on Social Media “Good News travels slow and bad news travels faster”. His unique ideas of branding inspired no of people in audience. The session was later joined by Adnaan Chaudhary who advised, “On Social Media the only way to battle your haters is honesty”.
Here are some glimpses of Social Media Baithak.
By Ahsan Umar. The writer is a former Prime Minister of Youth Parliament, RJ on Fm93 and conversationalist. For feedback: ahsan_umar6@yahoo.com, Twitter: @ahsanumartv Facebook: ahsanumarz