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Every website wants to look at creating its own value proposition online. While some want to earn money, others want fame and a few, just want to have their opinions voiced out (where a blog may be more appropriate). There are countless websites and blogs being launched each day, so you can’t help but stop [...]

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Dawn, Pakistan’s leading English newspaper for national and international news, seems to be going through some ummm… difficulties in updating its website as quickly as its competition in the market.

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On 17th of June 2008, the Dawn Media Group organized the Asia Finance Conference 2008 at the Pearl Continental Hotel in Karachi. The event mainly focused on the convergence of Telecom and Banking and had Minister of IT Sindh, Raza Haroon, as the Chief Guest of the ceremony. If you want photographs, please click here - You can also read up our initial morning assessment of the event, here.

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Here were a few of the photographs we snapped at the event - Please note that these were only some from the first two sessions - More of the other sessions to come later. Thanks!

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Between Salman Ansari making his points in his keynote address (which began after the Chief Guest had finally arrived) about the government’s love affair with the want to regulate everything, Zahid Jamil went through his presentation about how the legislative authorities slow down the speed of business, and Shahida Saleem about how the unbanked must be banked, it was obvious where the conference was going - strong content falling on deaf (or irrelevant) ears. But enough about the organization because there was none - let’s critique the substance that the speakers were addressing -

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I DID locate a blog or two about it, (though not on the Dawn’s website itself), but that’s about it. Strange that the largest English print media wouldn’t think to use the world’s largest online, virtual media to promote itself… for free!

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Finally!! Someone in the mainstream media takes the Web2.0’s most popular concept of Citizen Journalism, seriously! Dawn has to be the first mainstream print media to actually acknowledge the fact that it has 160million potential collaborators around Pakistan, and is reaching out to them.
Considering all the television channels, radio stations and print houses that are [...]

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When? June 17 – 18, 2008
Where? Pearl Continental Hotel, Karachi
The Dawn Media Group, wielding enormous influence among business leaders, policy makers, think-tanks as well as within the English reading public at large is hosting a 2 day exhibition& conference under the successful umbrella titled DAWN Asia Finance Conferences Series IV-”Banking and Financial Technology Expo” on [...]

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Today is the age of self-promotion. There is nobody that knows you, your product or your market better than you. So what stops you from just picking up a camera and driving the point home? If it was any other time and place, I’d say “everything hinders online publishing.” Today, I say “there is no [...]

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Super Technologies, Inc., the creator and provider of DIDX.net, virtualphoneline.com and other telecom services has launched a new service, called InfoNumber for streaming news Via the phone for radio and television service providers. The service empowers users to call a local phone number and hear live news or headline news, a 5 minute summary of [...]

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