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After making it’s mark on the Indian social media circles, Digital Vidya is all set to debut their Social Media Boot camps in one of Asia’s most promising social media hubs – Singapore!

Digital Vidya has been operational for more than a year now in India & within that span of time it has managed to establish itself as a reputed provider of professional Social Media training to top level professionals across the different industries. Since January 2010, over 600 professionals across India have benefited from Digital Vidya’s workshops.

Based on their success in India, Digital Vidya is now announcing 2 Boot camps in Singapore as follows.

1) One-day bootcamp on Twitter on the 25th of March 2011. – Detailed coverage on how businesses can leverage Twitter for branding & increasing their business.
2) Two-day bootcamp on Social Media on the 23rd and 24th of March 2011. – Holistic coverage of various social media tools, how to manage online reputation, manage crisis, engage with the customers & and thus increase the business.

Details like ticket pricing, location etc. can be checked by clicking on the following link: Digital Vidya Singapore

Important aspect of these Bootcamps is the learning based upon real life local case studies. Like we will discuss Singapore related Social Media case studies in both Bootcamps. The lead trainer for the sessions will be Pradeep Chopra who has a rich 10 year experience as a digital marketer.

The success of facebook and the astronomical growth in its user base has brought with it, its fair share of criticism around its privacy and content ownership policies. I have been closely following the debates and developments and even keeping a tab on start-ups that claim to rival facebook on the same issues. Let me tell you honestly I feel the same pangs about privacy and concerns of content ownership. And I am quite positive people in my age group and older groups feel the same way as well. But the truth here  is that it doesn’t matter what we think but what the younger users think and like, because the last i checked they are our future. And if I can make some bold predictions I would say that we wouldn’t be debating this as passionately many years from now, because the coming generation doesn’t give a shit about privacy or monetization for their IP. They will be intelligent enough to know how to adapt their lives around open networks. (Sorry I had to put it in the way they would). It’s probably something that will be relegated to government agencies to rally with networks but not because of outrage from the users but more from a perspective of protecting its citizens and keeping the peace.

Here are some of the reasons why I think the younger generation doesn’t really care