ABN Goes to Java Jazz Festival 2008

Asia Blogging Network (ABN) has been gaining more appreciation as a new media. Some industries have recognized this blog-base media as their reliable news partner.

After a chain of tense selections, today ABN has just been approved as one of the official media to cover the events of Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival 2008. This international annual jazz event will take place this month, from 7 to 9 March 2008, in Jakarta Convention Center.

This is considered as a breakthrough for the ABN. For this grand event, this year ABN will specifically send one of its blogger, Benny Chandra, as a reporter. Benny Chandra, a daily blog writer on ABN Musik Indonesia channel, has previously reported some jazz musical events. Now he will report directly from the event location. Be prepared! The reader of ABN Musik Indonesia channel could now get in touch with current events in Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival 2008, in texts and pictures, only at http://mymusicblogging.com/musikindonesia

— Koen · March 7th, 2008 · one response

Links 2 Asia : fully loaded !

We’re very happy to inform you that finally we have the Links 2 Asia fully populated !
This amazing directory lists blogs from Asian countries, even some which just barely got connected to the Internet and, naturally, only have a few bloggers.

It took our team a while to fill the directory, but yeah, it’s here now!

The work goes on though; the team will continue to look for exceptional blogs to be featured there. In the meantime, if you think that we’re missing something, do let us know by filling the form here.

Happy blogwalking !

— Harry Sufehmi · December 4th, 2007 · no responses

Pembukaan pendaftaran blogger ABN

Dengan mengucapkan banyak terimakasih kepada semua pihak yang telah mendukung, ABN (Asia Blogging Network) terus berkembang dengan cepat. Mantra kami adalah kolaborasi & kerjasama, dan mungkin ini juga turut berperan besar dalam perkembangan ini.

Karena itu dengan gembira kami mengumumkan pembukaan lowongan sebagai blogger di My City & My Travel.
Syarat dari kami hanya satu - yaitu Anda musti memiliki gairah / passion blogging dalam topik tersebut !

Andakah orangnya ? Daftarkan segera di form yang telah kami sediakan disini.
Mari bersama-sama kita nge blog di jaringan ABN, dan bersama-sama kita bentuk dunia baru kita.

— Harry Sufehmi · November 29th, 2007 · 23 responses

ABN & Nokia Blogging Roadshow

Almost all capital cities in Java Island have been seized by the blogging armada: Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Yogyakarta. Surabaya will fall soon.

The troops were from the alliance of Nokia Indonesia and Asia Blogging Network, led by Nokia’s Eka Anwar and ABN’s Budi Putra, supported by Enda Nasution, Ikhlasul Amal, Fany Ariasari, and Thomas Arie Setiawan.

They spread the new ideology: people power, pervasive journalism, the new fourth estate, Web 2.0. They want the information and the expression to be freed, faster, and faster. The virus they spread has infected students and young people on those cities. They hold it, they submit it, they love it.

So that’s how a blogger reports on Nokia and ABN collaborated blogging roadshow, including workshops on some high schools. To read the detail, visit our Press Release. Resistance is futile. Everybody is happy :).

— Koen · September 19th, 2007 · 7 responses

ABN and the (new) fourth estate

My colleague Jennie S. Bev wrote about blogging and Web 2.0 in Op-Ed section of The Jakarta Post, Monday (September 17, 2007) [PDF version].

According to her, the conventional media (or the press) –which is known as the fourth estate– and blogging as the new estate are going to complement each other. “As long as the rules of the game and boundaries are mutually respected, there are many things to be learned from each other,” she said.

Jennie also mentioned Asia Blogging Network (ABN) as a maneuver of the new estate from Indonesia:

…a collective effort to unify Indonesian and other Asian blogs has been executed through the establishment of AsiaBlogging.com, which might eventually form a group of influential pundits and opinionated bloggers and broadcasters. Such a unifying effort is an admirable accomplishment, as the selection process would elevate the credibility of Indonesian and Asian bloggers as equal counterparts to the conventional press.

We hope our blog network could mean something for the world of blogging and Web 2.0 and could be one of trusted sources and readings in the new media era.

— Budi Putra · September 19th, 2007 · 2 responses

It’s Asia Blogging Network Planet

At this moment, we currently have sixty six blogs in fourteen main domain, and also one main blog. We have many feedbacks from all of you about how to track the latest changes globally. Now, you can do it easily. We created an aggregator: Asia Blogging Network Planet.

It will gather all recent articles globally. It is a good place to start reading the fresh articles. Anyway, it will be updated every hour. If you want to read latest entries from certain topic, feel free to subscribe to main topic RSS. You will find the RSS link addresses there (look at the orange icons). For all RSS lovers, you can grab our planet RSS and subscribe into it. Enjoy!

PS: Thank you Feedburner!

— Thomas Arie · August 23rd, 2007 · 2 responses

Start Kronning Now!

Kronning? It is an mobile activity where you could post shortly what you are doing and where you are. This activity is now facilitated by ABN, through its new service introduced today: Kronologger. “It is a simple and practical social network activity model,” said Budi Putra, the CEO, “that allows the users to keep in touch, knowing the activities and location of each other.” Check his Press Release here: asiablogging.com/blog/208/abn-introduces-kronologger/.

Kronologger could easily be access through Internet-connected PC and cell phones (GPRS/PDN/EVDO/3G/you name it). When you access it with your cell phone, Kronologger would detect it and displays its mobile-optimised page, which would save the bandwidth required. The current development will allow the users to post (and to sign up) through SMS. “That’s the elegance of micro-blogging activity,” Budi continued proudly.

Kronologger is developed by Kukuh T Wicaksono, an application developer who works and lives in Jakarta. He just got married two months ago. Honeymoon? Certainly. But between necessary activities of honeymoon, he has been improving Kronologger to be integrated with similar services such as Twitter and Jaiku, as well as blogging service such as Multiply and Wordpress.

So, guys and gals, what r u waitin’ for? Sign up now, and start kronning now! Visit kronologger.com.

— Koen · August 6th, 2007 · 8 responses

We have a new face!

It has been a month (almost two) since we launch Asia Blogging Network (ABN). We receive many contacts, asking for information, application to join our network. Many things happened. It is time to give some new touches to our site. Enjoy our new design!

What’s new?

Here are some new and improved features you will find in our new design.

• Asia Blogging Network Global Update — You can find recent articles posted from all blogs in our network in front page. Currently we have 65 active blogs in 14 domains, and more domains and blogs will come. Previously, we only display ten newest articles. Now, you can browse up to 80 recent entries. You want to find older articles, just click on the “Next” link.
• Better content management — We still use Wordpress for our main site (and also for all blogs in our network). And we do not have plan of switching to other platform. WordPress works perfectly for us. We will share a little secret. As you can see, there are other sections beside news here: Column and Press Release (and also ‘pages). We want to make them have a better information. For example, if you read an article written by our guest bloggers, you will find it easier to read other articles (by other guest bloggers). The same scenario will be used when you read press release.
• Read, read and read — We updated our Live! page. It’s cleaner now. In the sidebar, you will see a list of blogs in our network. You can read the recent articles from a blog by clicking on its name. So simple, right?

I will stop writing now. It is not a perfect design. We will not stop developing and give new interesting features. Enjoy the new look! Ideas, comments, or suggestions? Do not hesitate to pass them.

— Thomas Arie · July 21st, 2007 · 16 responses

Corporate blogging goes to Asia

Blogging is an opportunity. That is why several companies are now establishing Guidelines for Corporate Blogging.

Despite the growing risk, few Asian companies have established policies that formally address employee and CEO blogging.

Since blog is one of communication means, the leader like CEO can use blog to communicate with his/her customers, stake-holders, employees, media, and even with his/her rivals!

It’s nice if Asian companies and CEOs could create specific model of this new media and communications tool.

— Budi Putra · July 20th, 2007 · 2 responses

ABN Goes Mobile

Asia Blog Network (ABN) has published a cooperation with PT Arunti Indonesia. The collaboration allows the ABN readers to access information through SMS. “The new feature enables our readers and bloggers to be updated with recent information wherever they are,” stated Budi Putra, the CEO of ABN. “This facility needs no registration, because of its nature as pull-SMS. The information is only sent upon direct request,” continued Janto Djojo, as the Managing Director of PT Arunti Indonesia.PT Arunti Indonesia is a company that provides mobile information services through pull-SMS system. Its center is in Singapore. But it starts its operation in Indonesia and gets ready to be ABN’s business partner.

In the first phase of the collaboration, Indonesian SMS users can access news from My Sport and My Film channels. The request is simple. User needs only to send a keyword by SMS to short-digit number: 9456. The keywords provided at present are: LigaIndonesia@ABN, LigaSpanyol@ABN, LigaItalia@ABN, FilmKorea@ABN, and FilmMandarin@ABN.

“For example, when we’re curious about anything regarding the Indonesian team in Asia Cup, we can just send the keyword LigaIndonesia@ABN to 9456,” said Budi.

In this first phase, only Telkomsel’s and Indosat’s GSM customers could use the service (Kartu Halo, Simpati, Kartu As, Matrix, Mentari, IM3). The service needs no registration or other kind of membership. User will be charged with normal SMS tariff only. No premium SMS charge!

— Koen · July 16th, 2007 · 3 responses