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Jakarta (The Jakarta Post/ANN) - Two leading Asian tech companies are looking to capitalize on the Indonesian market's zest for social networking this year, targeting to net at least 8 million local users for their products and services by the end of 2012.

Sean Zhang, Asia-Pacific director of Tencent Mobile Global, said that they planned to launch their products in the local market next month.

Tencent runs China's largest instant messenger service (IM), QQ, which had 711.7 million active users as of September 2011. The company also operates the web portal qq.com.

"Actually, the first thing for us this year is to introduce our QQ Browser and Qute," Zhang said.

Zhang added that the company's browser and its Qute messaging application would be "totally" cross-platform, as the products would be available for a variety of mobile phones, ranging from smartphones using the Android operating system to feature phones using Java.

He added that the QQ Browser would even allow users of lower-end feature phones to surf the Internet, while Qute would allow mobile phone users to message each other regardless of the model of their phones.

Only a few mobile instant messenger programs are in wide use in Indonesia, led by the popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) program, which supports messaging between BlackBerry smartphone users only.

Zhang added that Tencent was wanted to collaborate with local partners to ensure its products were usable by different mobile phone models.

"We try to cooperate with operators to provide very cost-effective products to end-users. There will be a data plan for the QQ Browser and Qute, so it will be very easy for users to use."

Zhang added that the data traffic generated by the products would translate into revenue for operators.

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Japanese, Chinese social media gamers mull entering Indonesia

Posted: Sunday, March 11, 2012 1:15 am | Updated: 12:29 am, Sun Mar 11, 2012.

Are you on Facebook? Keeping up with who all is getting married or having a baby? Perhaps looking pictures of a friend's grandkids? Then some wiseacre tells you that Facebook is a good way to find a job?

Can one still have fun and be an effective job seeker using Facebook? Allison Doyle of About.com has doubts. She said, "I used to think that job seekers could still have some fun on Facebook if they were careful about their privacy setting. Now I'm starting to think that unless you are super careful and set your privacy settings so your profile is almost in jail, it can be an issue when you're job seeking." One Facebook user told me, "Trying to job hunt on Facebook will either ruin my fun or lose jobs." Anthony, a dislocated technical support person, said about Facebook job hunting, "No way am I doing that -- too many dangers."

However, it is just as wrong to ignore social media in job seeking. More than half of employers now use Facebook to find employees, and 95 percent use LinkedIn. Twitter is used by 42 percent. A local county park director hired a new secretary who applied using Twitter.

"No one applied the old fashioned way by dropping off a r?sum?," he said.

Here are some tips when using Facebook:

Check your online persona. What picture will a prospective employer get of you online? Google your name using quotation marks. Some are surprised at what they find on line about themselves. What employers learn about you online can be a job killer. If you are using Facebook for fun and job hunting, present yourself as being rather square or PG.

Think of your Facebook profile as your brand. Make sure that information you want to keep private is not out there for the whole world.

Facebook job hunting is really networking. Don't think of it as something that new. It's the same networking that I taught in job search classes for 37 years. Facebook makes it easier to find jobs through the help of friends.

Have fun. Job hunt on Facebook, but be careful.

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BOB LANKARD: Using social networking

By Michele Dargan

Daily News Staff Writer

Updated: 7:56p.m.Saturday,March10,2012

Posted: 5:52p.m.Saturday,March10,2012

When Renee Boger attended a seminar on social networking for churches two years ago, she came away with one clear message.

In todays culture, making our presence (known) online is do or die if we hope to grow beyond our church walls, said Boger, communications coordinator for The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea. Its come to a point now that if you dont have a presence online, no ones going to know about you. Youre competing for people. If youre just a building, its not good enough anymore.

But having a website is now the bare minimum for any house of worship.

Island churches and synagogues are using social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Meetup.com to interact with congregants and draw new people to their house of worship.

Boger said her job has changed dramatically from when she started designing and putting out the church newsletter six years ago. The Sunday leaflet, weekly Bethesda Happenings and the monthly Bethesda Bulletin are distributed electronically and on Bethesdas website.

My job has taken on this other side of social networking, with a good portion of my time spent updating our website, Facebook and Twitter, Boger said.

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Houses of worship tap social media to help build congregations, faith

By Michele Dargan

Daily News Staff Writer

Updated: 7:56p.m.Saturday,March10,2012

Posted: 5:52p.m.Saturday,March10,2012

When Renee Boger attended a seminar on social networking for churches two years ago, she came away with one clear message.

In todays culture, making our presence (known) online is do or die if we hope to grow beyond our church walls, said Boger, communications coordinator for The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea. Its come to a point now that if you dont have a presence online, no ones going to know about you. Youre competing for people. If youre just a building, its not good enough anymore.

But having a website is now the bare minimum for any house of worship.

Island churches and synagogues are using social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Meetup.com to interact with congregants and draw new people to their house of worship.

Boger said her job has changed dramatically from when she started designing and putting out the church newsletter six years ago. The Sunday leaflet, weekly Bethesda Happenings and the monthly Bethesda Bulletin are distributed electronically and on Bethesdas website.

My job has taken on this other side of social networking, with a good portion of my time spent updating our website, Facebook and Twitter, Boger said.

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Palm Beach houses of worship find social media a blessing

An avid theater goer and critic at Canada's Globe and Mail is proposing making the theater a more social place with Facebook and Linkedin. While using mobile devices with show-stopping LCD screens may be frowned upon, social networking may turn out to be a real experience enhancer.

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The Guardian recently published a column by theater critic Kelly Nestruck who suggests play houses should contemplate developing an app similar to a social media profile-powered systems used by airlines.

"Your average modern theatre production, however, fails to tap into the possibilities of connecting audience members," he said in a blog post.

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By displaying who will be in the audience before the night of the show, it's more likely you'll meet friends.

"Whenever I have chatted with strangers in the stalls, however, it's led to a much richer theatre experience," Nestruck said. "Some of my greatest play-going memories have involved bonding with fellow audience members standing in a queue trying to get tickets for a sold-out show, or comparing notes."

The seating program cited in the post as inspiration for social networking before showtime is the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Meet and Seat program. Meet and Seat lets passengers determine who they want to sit next to, laying out personal details about individuals on the same flight from social media.

Would you like to use your social networking profiles in tandem with going to the theater, booking flights or eating out at restaurants? Tell us what you think in the comments.

Image courtesy of Flickr, Thomas Hawk

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Can Social Networking Enhance the Theater? [VIDEO]