Archive for the 'cambodia blog' Category

In the (ancient) days before Facebook dominated Cambodia, our small but tiny community of bloggers (AKA 'Cloggers') was full of enthusiasm. Many of them became 'trainers of trainers' via the 'Personal Information Technology Workshop', holding weekend workshops for university students and getting them started on email & basic blogging. These included Hou ...

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(Above: bloggers on Google Hangout.) It used to be that IT meetups were about *blogs*. (Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Yes, I'm that old.) On Saturday the 7th, Anirudh invited us for an informal blog meetup. Talk ranged from the election to upcoming Burma IT events, as well as just general catching up. There ...

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[Note: This post will be revised as I sort out my many photos & videos!] BarCamp Battambang was held on May 25-26th; I hadn't been up to visit in nearly a year. Thanks to friends for recording my talk and taking photos & video! Let BarCamp Change Your Life  on Vimeo.   Still polishing the ...

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Some very brief tidbits from Cambodia's first TechCamp! http://techcampphnompenh.wordpress.com So pleased to see the Open Development Cambodia team 'walk their talk'! That's my team! Above: US Ambassador Todd asked us to 'like' his Facebook page. (Not what I would ordinarily expect in a diplomatic intro. :D ) Yrs truly w/host (and blogger) Soma Norodom.  ...

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This last weekend I presented on E-Books in a 'lightning session' at BarCamp Angkor. I would enjoy talking more about e-book publishing, especially since it's a new sector sorting itself out. I've been developing Khmer language e-books with Our Books Cambodia, and taken an initial foray into e-publishing with a collection of ...

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