Background for general introduction to use of social media in China, for barcamp Gold Coast, Australia, Nov 29, 2008 http://barcamp.org/BarCampGoldCoast

1. Social Media in China Barcamp Gold Coast Nov 29, 2008 Des Walsh http:// barcamp.org/BarCampGoldCoast

3. http://www.tinyurl.com/ccnic0808 Statistical Survey Report on the Internet Development in China 22nd Report Context: China Netizenry

4. Internet Users June 2008 China 253 million USA 230 million 19.1% of China population 21.1% world average http://tinyurl.com/ccnic0808

9. Stats from company http:// tinyurl.com/tencenten Goal: "one-stop, online life service” QQ IM registered users 856.2 million QQ active users over 355.1 million QQ Games has had 4.4 million online simultaneously Land of Big Numbers

10. Jesse Thomas & Brian Solis Conversation Prism http://tinyurl.com/bsprism

11. CIC’s China version of the prism http:// tinyurl.com/sfprism

12. Microblogging

13. http://tinyurl.com/chinasocmed

15. http:// www.lostlaowai.com /blog

16. http:// seeisee.com/index.php/sam

17. http:// digitalwatch.ogilvy.com.cn /en /

18. http:// rconversation.blogs.com

19. http:// www.danwei.org

20. http:// www.onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress /

21. http:// www.chinalawblog.com /

22. http:// china.alltop.com

23. http:// socialmedia.alltop.com

25. Elliott Ng on Creativity & Adaptivity in China http:// tinyurl.com/elliottcn #cnbloggercon on Twitter