Twitter people worth following for events in South East Asia

Last Saturday, I was at Singapore Management for a Podcamp. I was talking about my love for crashing parties and events and scamming free food.

Even in the days of nets and webs, I find it interesting to complement my online friendship by actually meeting the people doing interesting work in their own regions and learning from them.

How do I keep track of so many events. Simple, I follow some blogs and twitters, increasingly twitters. I also encourage Singapore residents to go out and attend the events in the region as airfares are getting economical again.

At Cambodian Barcamp

So here are some of the people I follow to get to know of events from South East Asia.

Cambodia

@ThaRum (Tharum Bun, globalvoices online’s man in Cambodia. A good contact to understand the very active Cambodian blogosphere)

@viirak (You will see Viraak in events in Cambodia, plotting where to party that night)

Thailand

@jfxberns (John Berns, based in BKK and always organizing some event)

@bact (Also active organising many events and involved in many projects. Has good contacts in Thai blogging community)

Indonesia

@Enda (yet another globalvoicer, organises the blogger festivals in Indonesia and had good contacts with the blogosphere there)

Vietnam

@anhhung (from Saigon, doing interesting work in online learning and a full time student as well)

@jasonlog (Jason Vu, point man for Vietnamese entrepreneurship scene)

@saigonnezumi (Kevin is into open source, active organizing meetups. His blog is also a good source of info about Vietnam)

@chipro (chip is so active and knows so many people in vietnam. I bug her whenever I have questions on Vietnamese online space)

Malaysia

@cerventus (Daniel is the superman of Malaysia, he is like everywhere and helping people in their events)

@bytebot (I just started following Colin, he is also always on the move and tweets about events.

The Philippines

@JeromeGotangco Met Jerome at Foss.my. He participates and organizes barcamps and blog events in the Philippines.

@tonyocruz (Tonyo is a tech blogger and has good contacts in the .Ph blogging community)

China
@issac (Issac is an entrepreneur and blogger from China. Also active with the Chinese bloggercons)

I am sure there are many more, and if you know people I am missing out, let me know via comments or email preetamrai@gmail.com

I am at @preetamrai. I usually re-tweet the events that I find interesting. Feel free to bug me and I’ll happy to share my budget airfare and stay finds.