Global Entrepreneurship Week has some fantastic sponsors, including Ernst and Young, IBM and NYSE Euronext.

In addition (and just as a bit of fun!), I’d like to nominate eleven strictly ‘unofficial’ and personal sponsors for my Whistlestop Tour for Speednetwork the Globe;

1.       Berocca (the fizzy orange vitamin supplement):  Packing 793% of my recommended daily dose of Vitamin C can’t be bad. 

2.       Blackberry (the mobile phone):  From keeping up to date with emails, to surfing Wikipedia on the move

3.       Facebook (the online social network)   One status update can bring a suggestion of a meet-up abroad.  Amazing!

4.       First Defence (the nasal spray) Three sprays up the nose at the beginning of a flight (hopefully) keep colds at bay!

5.       Flip (the video recorder);  A gadget sensation, I challenge you to find a simpler way to get video onto YouTube

6.       Melatonin One of these natural tablets before bed helps combat jet-lag (not available in the UK)

7.       Moo (the pleasure card company)  Mini-card heaven

8.       Skype (the internet telephony aka VOIP service) Video and voice calls back home plus Skype-out calls around the world, saving hundreds of pounds!

9.       TEN UK The greatest concierge service on the planet, 24 hours a day, for all kinds of requests from last minute hotels in Mexico City to a computer cable in Singapore.

10.   Timbuk2;  Make the most incredible laptop bags which slide over the handle of your wheel-on suitcase.  Airports go from nightmare to pleasure.

11.   Twitter; Surprisingly comforting in the back of a cab in a distant city, catching up on the latest from a very connected crowd and an incredible way to crowd-source swift help and advice.

Have you got any unofficial sponsors for when you travel?  Please share them by making a comment here!

 

Wow!  Hong Kong sets the new record for the speed at which you can move from the plane to the hotel room.  It only seems like a couple of minutes ago that I was putting my shoes back on, and now I’m sitting here writing this!  Amazing!

One of the first sites I head to when logging on is Addictomatic – if you don’t use it already, check it out, it’s the business for searching the web!  On one page you have the very latest on a person or phrase (Speednetworking for example) from the blogosphere, Twitter, news stories and more.  It saves a huge amount of time and the Twitter updates, for example, can be just a few minutes old – great for the very latest information.

One such Twitter update led me back to Malaysia’s amazing host, Dash, who has written this fantastic piece following yesterday’s event.  I would love to have stayed longer in Kuala Lumpur – one night just wasn’t enough!  Never mind – Hong Kong awaits, and so, from six thousand miles away from home in London, it’s goodbye for now!

I’ve just been told to fasten my seatbelt and to ensure that any baggage is stowed under the seat in front of me.  My tray table is in the upright position and one of the cabin crew has already been around with bottles of water before we set off.  I’m gazing down at the tarmac outside the window.  But I know that the road outside will continue for another five hours.  This isn’t a flight you see; it’s a ‘lookshury liner’ coach trip.  And there’s five hours between me, in Kuala Lumpur, and supper, in Singapore.

Speednetworking Malaysia finished just a couple of hours ago and was a barnstorming success.  This was in no small part, thanks to the fantastic host, Warisan Global’s Dash.  What particularly struck me about the event (apart from the fact that over sixty people had turned out on a public holiday) was the great range of people attending, from students in their teens and twenties, to professionals in their fifties and sixties. 

I managed to record a quick video, during which I interview Dash himself;

Local organisations should fasten their seatbelt, because from what I’ve seen today, Global Entrepreneurship Week Malaysia is set to be a huge success!