Maverick Indonesia

Maverick Goes 70s at “Maverick Night Fever”

Everybody loves to party, journalists no exceptions! That was obvious from our 2008 media gathering last Thursday. Some 70 journalists from around 35 media companies joined the party at Airman Planet, Sultan Hotel. Dubbed the “Maverick Night Fever”, the event took the theme “disco seventies”. Everybody–our partners and associates–made serious efforts to live up to the theme, donning their wigs, miniskirts, leather boots and flowery shirts, to mention a few of the 70s items on display that night!   It’s always nice to see people enjoy themselves and unwind (at least for a while!) after a tight deadline, stress, or anything that is associated with working as journalists. Visiting with and getting to know fresh faces in a different environment other than work can be a very useful stress relief. A health therapist once said that it’s healthy to make at least a new friend in a month. Nothing can beat a party when it comes to that! Make new friends!  Be part of the fun!  A party is no fun when the very people attending it play no part in it. To get everybody to join, every journalist was invited to take their pictures in the 70s outfit: big sunglasses, flowery shirts, wigs and other 70s paraphernalia. Everybody seemed to be having a great time and many of them grabbed a second chance to don different costumes and pose for different photo angles. On top of an abundance of food and free drinks, there were fun games to entertain guests. The MC duo, Indri and Nadia, who looked glamorous in their 70s gold and silver looks, from head to toe, challenged guests in a guessing game to identify 70s songs and to dance in the 70s style. Joko of rileks.com and his partner of the night, Dewi, a Maverick associate, turned the dance floor hot with their sensual movements. In a matter of minutes the two choreographed a new dance that combined disco with 70s movements. Other dancers helped make the night a “Maverick Night Fever”!   The lucky journalist that night was Muchlison of Gatra, who won the grand prize: an iPOD! Everybody looked happy and that was all that mattered. We were grateful for the media support in the six years of doing business. Spending a happy time together was one way to keep our good relationship with the journalists!

2008 Maverick “Click of The Year” goes to…

In Maverick, we’re not only serious about blogging; we also have lots of fun with it!

Click of The Week has become our new racing game, where Maverick kids compete to spot journalists blogs over the net and have it being reviewed in our blog. Each year, during Maverick’s Media Gathering, we crowned a journalist as the recipient of our Click of The Year Award.

Judged by the Mavericks (cat-fight involved), this award is given to the most outstanding journalist blog from our 2008 Click of The Week list, and convey these following qualities: (more…)

Tags: aas, anugerah adiwarta sampoerna, Click Of The Week, click of the year, irawan santoso, journalist blog, Maverick, media gathering, rechstaat

PR Week 2008: It should’ve been… engaging

Last week (27-29 May 2008) the PR community celebrated its PR Week 2008. Or rather, small portions of the industry celebrated the event. Although APPRI was said to have about 200 companies as their members, some couple of hundreds more unregistered under the association, only very few attended PR week.

PR Week 2008 was initiated and organized by EGA Briefings and MM Communications Trisakti University. It was a good effort to bring together and provide developments to practitioners in the industry. The intention was there but the attendance was disappointing. The few who attended were confined to the enthusiastic organizers, a handful of corporate PR people, a number of academicians and the heads of other PR organizations such as Perhumas and APRI.

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Up and Away for the Gauge Away Day!

Last Saturday, the Gauge team had an Away Day at Desa Gumati, Bogor. As a new addition to the staff, this was a new experience for me. I learned that Away Day is Maverick’s way to get away from the office and align our thoughts together for the future of the company, and of Gauge Media Monitoring division in this particular instance.

The day started off well, clear blue sky, with no traffic whatsoever. After donning our uniform Gauge t-shirts for the day (yay, free goodies!), we were ready to go. The drive from the office to Desa Gumati was filled with karaoke-ing cheesy old Indonesian pop songs that the bus had provided for us (thank you Mr. Bus Driver!) and as usual, talking while munching away the miles.

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Tags: away day, Event, gauge

Kompas Gramedia Launches Kompas.com Reborn

Kompas Gramedia on Thursday, May 29, 2008, launched Kompas.com Reborn in a ceremony at Hotel Mulia Senayan led by Minister of Communication and Informatics M. Nuh, Kompas Gramedia Chairman Jakob Oetomo and Kompas Gramedia CEO Agung Adiprasetyo. The grand launch marked the rebirth of Kompas.com that had gone through serious changes in layout, content management, format and features.

The transformation from Kompas Cyber Media to Kompas.com was a year-long process. Throughout the period Kompas.com planned its editorial content, built new infrastructure, increased its bandwidth and put its human resources in a single News Room. The new Kompas.com has a cleaner look than before. The layout optimizes readability while still retaining its artistic feel. The site utilizes complementing tones and well-structured format instead of the competing colors and cluttered format of rival news portals.

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Tags: Event, kompas, Media

Watch Out! Fraud Attempt in the name of Pesta Blogger

Bloggers beware! Maverick has received news that some unscrupulous people are trying to pull a fast one on the unwary using the Pesta Blogger name. This is a picture by Siwi, a blogger from Surabaya, who captured the SMS:

The scam consists of a SMS message asking recipients to participate in Pesta Blogger, that has “limited places”. It then asks for a contribution of Rp250,000 to be sent to a Mandiri account.

According to SofyanNR, a blogger from Semarang, the fraudster is using the National Awakening Day as lure to attract people to participate. He also wrote on his blog that the fraudster called him and mentioned several blogging communities, including Loenpia, which the fraudster said, will become the host.

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Closed: National Condom Week 2007

 

The National Condom Week 2007 that closed last week was interesting in that it brought strong views on condom use to the fore.

On one side were the supporters who take the stand that whether you promote condom use or not, people will still bonk. So it would be more efficient to educate bonkers on how to have safe sex through condoms rather than to try to stop people from bonking. It is also important to note that the supporters do not encourage indiscriminate sex and promiscuity. The central message of National Condom Week is that the best prevention for HIV/AIDS is still abstinence and being monogamous.

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National Condom Week Closing

National Condom Week was between December 1 and 8 and was marked by activities throughout Indonesia from Jakarta and Tangerang to Bandung, Pasuruan, Pekanbaru, Badung (Bali), East Sumbawa, Manado and Jayapura.

Local communities, government officials and a number of NGOs working in HIV/AIDS took part in these events under the national Condom Week banner. These activities include distributing 7,000 HIV/AIDS educational material and condoms, artistes taking part in the MTV Staying Alive concert and participation in the condom tester competition as well as writing and photography competitions for journalists, photographers and bloggers.

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