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10 Key Things I Learnt From Malaysia's Social Media Week Summit, Cartoonified

There are no social media experts as social media evolves and changes so rapidly, says Klubb Kid KL during his talk.

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1. The success of crowd funding campaigns are dependent on these 10 factors:

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2. Don't let fresh interns handle your company's social media accounts, it's too important!

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3. Blogging is all about the experience. Be yourself, be truthful, tell your story, and you will be noticed.

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4. In this demand generation, content is fuel, blogging is the engine, and social media is the amplification

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5. When crowd sourcing for information, be clear about your objectives with your audience

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6. Everyone with a phone and a camera are now citizen journalists. The challenge is to sift fact from fiction.

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7. To create virality, create high-value content that gives users a desire, reason, and incentive to share

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8. Dr Mahathir: Social media is like a knife, it can be used to carve beautiful things, or be used to harm people. It gives us power we never had before, exercise this power responsibly to benefit society.

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9. No matter microblogging or blogging, personalise your posts to make it unique and sharable. Create content people love.

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10. Speed is important for politicians when responding to the rakyat on social media, but they have to be mindful to always get the facts right

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These doodle were created by cartoonist and blogger Kendy Life! See more of Kendy Life's funny cartoons here.

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Read more on what Tun Dr Mahathir had to say during his keynote speech at the Malaysian Social Media Week Summit here:

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