Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Blackpool to Host the 2019 LGBT+ International Powerlifting Championships



Gay Games 11 Hong Kong 2022 is proud to support the LGBT+ International Powerlifting Championships, which will take place in Blackpool, England in Summer 2019 from 19th – 21st July 2019. Registration is now open! For more details about the LGBT International Powerlifting Championships and to register for Blackpool 2019 please visit their webpage here, or join the Facebook Group here.

Powerlifting has been part of the Gay Games programme since its beginnings in 1982 until the 2014 Gay Games in Cleveland Ohio. Sadly powerlifting was not included at the 2018 Paris Gay Games, but will make a big return in the upcoming 2022 Gay Games hosted in Hong Kong with the assistance of the LGBT+ Powerlifting Union. (Follow #GGHK2022 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to stay updated on the details!)

The 2019 LGBT+ International Powerlifting Championships will be hosted by the very modern Blackpool Sixth Form College, with the competition itself happening in their high tech 300 seat theatre auditorium. Plenty of room for athletes to participate, and for supporters and friends to watch and show their support. Please note that all athletes and coaches will need to be registered in 2019 to gain access to warm up and competition areas.


LGBT+ International Powerlifting Championship athletes are welcome to register and participate regardless of their age, sexuality, health status, ability, or gender. There is also a new Mx  third gender category, which welcomes transgender, non-binary and intersex participants to compete. The LGBT IPC is one of the first sporting events in the world to include a third gender category, so that Mx people have the ability to participate in a safe environment, without fear of discrimination.

We look forward to seeing the upcoming competition and urge our friends, and followers to show their support and attend if possible. Powerlifting will be one of the events at Gay Games 11 Hong Kong 2022, and we look forward to seeing how our partners at the LGBT+ International Powerlifting Championship plan and execute this diversity-inspiring sporting event.
 
About us:
Hong Kong is the first Asian city to host the Gay Games, the world’s biggest international sporting and cultural event for all, in 2022. Gay Games Hong Kong 2022 will be an empowering experience for LGBT+ athletes and supporters from across Asia, in addition to welcoming visitors from around the world, to participate in a variety of sporting and cultural events.

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Master the latest Social Media Techniques and Tools



Join seven-time Pacific Conferences Speaker Douglas White for his popular, interactive Social Media Strategy 2019 Workshop in Singapore from 14-15 February 2019 and in Hong Kong from 21-22 February 2019. His workshop has sold out completely in the last 3 years- sign up early to ensure your attendance! Last year’s sold-out workshop had people traveling from 5 countries to learn from Douglas White, regional social media expert, with more than 20 years’ marketing experience and Founder of PRDA, Asia’s first agency offering full social media management services. Every attendee can expect to walk away from this two-day, interactive workshop with tailored information on how to leverage the latest techniques and tools in order to create a winning social media strategy aligned with your business objectives.

Douglas’s unique “5-step, 4 KPIs” strategy has been taught to more companies and organizations in Asia than any other, and will help you learn how to effectively tailor your social media content for maximum audience engagement, by using algorithmic factors to the best advantage and assisting you in setting realistic goals to accomplish optimal social media performance and ROI reporting. Douglas will also give you tools to track meaningful metrics, such as Fanpage Karma, Google Analytics, Hootsuite, Hashtagify and Facebook adverts.


This is a hands-on, interactive course, where you will be able to plan out a winning social media strategy for Your Brand. Some of the exercises you’ll be participating in, in order to tailor your strategy for real-world applications, will be a review of your current digital assets followed by a social audit and learning how to find content and select keywords for your brand. You’ll learn how to best write messages and identify the social CRM approach for different social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn. In short, you can expect to walk away with an outline for getting your business back on track to using social media to its best advantage-- extremely important in this day and age.

Learn from an expert, someone well versed in the latest trends and strategies-- especially in Asia. Asia’s e-commerce market is huge, and you’ll be primed to make your mark with the tools from, in our humble opinion, the best Social Media Workshop Leader in Asia, Douglas White.

About us:
PRDA is Asia’s leading social media agency for a reason, our Founder and Business Director Douglas White is a very high-demand Social Media expert with a proven social media methodology and highly knowledgeable on the largest global ecommerce market; Asia. In 2017 alone, his proven social media methodology was introduced to more than 90 companies, including training over 600 professionals in various industries. PRDA is ready to provide your company with the digital transformation it needs! Contact us today to learn more.

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Friday, January 4, 2019

Amplify Social Media Reach, Boost Engagement & More


Join PRDA’s Douglas White - Amplify Social Media Reach, Boost Engagement, Maximise ROI and more


PRDA Founder and Business Director Douglas White is ready for his next speaking event with Pacific Conferences, this will be his eighth (and ninth) time leading his Social Media Strategy 2019 Workshop in Singapore and Hong Kong. His prior success is one of the reasons that PRDA’s unique, proven methodology for social media management has been implemented and trained in more companies in Asia than any other. It’s true! Douglas has over 20 years’ marketing experience and is well-known as a regional social media expert.  He has designed and implemented social media strategies focused on delivering ROI-oriented and data-driven results for our clients. Douglas’s Social Media Strategy workshops are must-attend events for business leaders who need to learn how to best leverage social media for their business, how to write effectively on social media platforms (like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp) in order to increase their engagement rate, and learn what tools are best for measuring the effectiveness of their social media-- with tips on driving conversion.

To register and learn more, please click the links below. These workshops have sold out for 3 years running, so register early to avoid disappointment! It’s time to give your company the digital transformation it needs to survive in today’s technology-driven world.


Seeking Volunteers to Help us make #GGHK2022 the best Gay Games ever!

Gay Games 11 Hong Kong 2022 will be here before we know it- can you believe it’s 2019 already?!? We need YOUR help to make this amazing sporting and cultural festival that will promote diversity, inclusion and tolerance throughout the region possible. We have two large openings to fill for our management team, Director of Ceremonies and Events Games, and Director of Arts and Culture. Please see the details of these volunteer opportunities below. We will be needing all sorts of volunteers for this enormous undertaking, so be sure to contact us if you’d like to assist in another capacity as well! Submit your application of interest to joinus@gaygameshk2022.com, and help us make GGHK2022 the best Gay Games ever!




Advice for AYO Auditions

Follow the Asian Youth Orchestra on Facebook and Instagram for details on 2019’s audition and tour dates. We’ve released the Audition Schedule here.

2019 Asian Youth Orchestra Auditions are nearly here, with our first stop beginning in Manila, on 19 January. From there our panel of jurors will be traveling to Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Seoul, Taipei, Tokyo, Osaka, Shanghai and finishing up in Beijing on 24 March. In this article we will be giving our auditioning musicians a bit of audition advice- we hope it will offer great help for your preparation.

Please also feel free to reference our audition advice articles from last year:

We hope the tips below will help our aspiring youth to prepare for their audition.

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Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Seeking Volunteers to Help us make #GGHK2022 the best Gay Games ever!


 

Gay Games 11 Hong Kong 2022 will be here before we know it- can you believe it’s 2019 already?!? We need YOUR help to make this amazing sporting and cultural festival that will promote diversity, inclusion and tolerance throughout the region possible. We have two large openings to fill for our management team, Director of Ceremonies and Events Games, and Director of Arts and Culture. Please see the details of these volunteer opportunities below. We will be needing all sorts of volunteers for this enormous undertaking, so be sure to contact us if you’d like to assist in another capacity as well! Submit your application of interest to joinus@gaygameshk2022.com, and help us make GGHK2022 the best Gay Games ever!

Director of Arts and Culture
In this position you will assist in developing the high-level plan and context for the GGHK2022 Cultural Program.  In short, you will be responsible for developing and executing an operational plan, as well as working closely with our team and community partners. You will be helping to develop events such as the Choral Festival, Band Festival, Visual Arts Event and Exhibit, and the Memorial Quilt Exhibition, as well as collaborating with our Sports Director on the International Rainbow Memorial Run.  

To fill this management position we are looking for someone with experience in organizing arts and cultural events. We prefer someone knowledgeable about Hong Kong based non profits, and with established relationships within Asia’s LGBT+ arts and culture networks. Please have excellent communication skills, ethical conduct and leadership skills. Hours will vary.

Hong Kong signs agreement to host the 2022 Gay Games

Director of Ceremonies and Events Games
In this position you will assist in developing the high-level plan and context for the GGHK2022 Cultural Program.  In short, you will be responsible for developing and executing an operational plan, as well as working closely with our team and community partners.

You will be helping to develop events such as the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, Diversity Festival, and Gay Games Village. You will be expected to plan and organize the ceremonies, events and related activities program, building networks across Asia and within Hong Kong, developing a venue plan and executing the events. The director will work closely with operational partners including the team operating the Village.

To fill this management position we are looking for someone with experience organizing large scale multi venue events. We need a creative and inspiring event organizer, with excellent communication skills, ethical conduct, and effective leadership skills.

Submit your application of interest to joinus@gaygameshk2022.com, and help us make GGHK2022 the best Gay Games ever!

About us:
The Gay Games is built upon the principles of Participation, Inclusion and Personal Best. Based on these values, since 1982, the Gay Games have brought together people from all over the world, with diversity, respect, equality, solidarity and sharing. The Gay Games are open to participants of all ages, experience levels, sexual orientation and physical ability.  Gay Games 11 Hong Kong 2022 will be will be held in November 2022 with more than 10,000 participants expected to attend and participate in 36 sporting and 11 cultural events.

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Join PRDA’s Douglas White - Amplify Social Media Reach, Boost Engagement, Maximise ROI and more




PRDA Founder and Business Director Douglas White is ready for his next speaking event with Pacific Conferences, this will be his eighth (and ninth) time leading his Social Media Strategy 2019 Workshop in Singapore and Hong Kong. His prior success is one of the reasons that PRDA’s unique, proven methodology for social media management has been implemented and trained in more companies in Asia than any other. It’s true! Douglas has over 20 years’ marketing experience and is well-known as a regional social media expert.  He has designed and implemented social media strategies focused on delivering ROI-oriented and data-driven results for our clients. Douglas’s Social Media Strategy workshops are must-attend events for business leaders who need to learn how to best leverage social media for their business, how to write effectively on social media platforms (like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp) in order to increase their engagement rate, and learn what tools are best for measuring the effectiveness of their social media-- with tips on driving conversion.

To register and learn more, please click the links below. These workshops have sold out for 3 years running, so register early to avoid disappointment! It’s time to give your company the digital transformation it needs to survive in today’s technology-driven world.

 

This interactive, two-day, practical workshop will equip you with the latest techniques and tools, helping you to create a winning social media strategy aligned with your business objectives and discover the latest trends on social user behaviour in Asia. Learn Douglas’s unique “5-step, 4 KPIs” process, which will teach you to set realistic goals for optimum social media performance, ROI reporting and how to effectively tailor your social media content for maximum audience engagement. You will learn much more, including how to track meaningful metrics with tools like Fanpage Karma, Google Analytics, Hootsuite, Hashtagify and Facebook adverts.

About us:
PRDA is Asia’s leading social media agency for a reason, our Founder and Business Director Douglas White is a very high-demand Social Media expert with a proven social media methodology and highly knowledgeable on the largest global ecommerce market; Asia. PRDA is ready to provide your company with the digital transformation it needs! Contact us today to learn more:

Connect with PRDA