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Today, ABN’s first anniversary. Thanks for all of you!

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Today, Asia Blogging Network is marking its first Anniversary. Thanks to all bloggers who have contributed their writings to the AsiaBlogging, our blog network has been growing and growing now.

Personally, I want to say thanks a lot for you, AsiaBlogging readers and communities, who have supported us by visiting, reading, commenting and giving us your valuable feedbacks.

AsiaBlogging also begins to be recognised by the infocomm industry in Indonesia. Some big companies, some of them are the Indonesia offices of the global’s big boys, have team-up with us to conduct blogging-related activities.

That is why, the last but not least, for all our partners: Microsoft, Nokia, Intel Corp, Excelcom, Indo.com and Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Republic of Indonesia, who have advertised with us, I would like to say thanks a bunch for your trust and cooperations.

Bravo blogging!

Posted in Blogging, News | 15 Comments »

ABN and the (new) fourth estate

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

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.

Posted in Asia, Blogging, Indonesia, Media, News | 3 Comments »

Corporate blogging goes to Asia

Friday, July 20th, 2007

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.

Posted in Asia, Blogging, Media, News, People | 2 Comments »

Indians lead craze for music videos in Asia

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Indians are the movie and television-driven music consumers in Asia, or even, in the world. Personally, I enjoyed Indian musics and knew their pop stars through the country’s movies and television drama.

Indians are the most passionate, television-driven music consumers in Asia, according to the Branded, MTV and Synovate Music Matters survey - on music habits and attitudes of young urban Asians- released at the 2007 Music Matters Asia Pacific Forum in Hong Kong.

Of the Indian urban consumer respondents, the survey reveals, 67 per cent watch music videos on television almost every day, and 22 per cent watch them two to three times a week, the highest rates in Asia. Regionally, 33 per cent of consumers watch music videos almost every day and 25 per cent watch them two to three times a week.

[Source: Rediff]

Posted in India, Movie, Music, News | 1 Comment »

Four blogging countries in Asia

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Interesting that Asia has four representatives for Blogging Countries in the world: Jakarta, Beijing, Mumbai and Singapore. So, congratulations for Asia!

Read Ikhlasul Amal’s posting on Blogging Tips blog.

Posted in China, India, Indonesia, News, Singapore | 2 Comments »

Join our community!

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

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Folks we are trying to form ABN community and one of efforts is setting up an MyBlogLog account. MyBlogLog’s ABN community members can interact and communicate each others, while we can posses “the live database” of our community members.

MyBlogLog community member is one of the best ways to track our community members (besides through comment forums on our whole blogs at ABN, off course).

You can join ABN community by entering our pages at http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/AsiaBlogging/

Welcome!

Posted in Community, News, People | 24 Comments »

All Malaysia.info blog

Monday, June 18th, 2007

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This is an interesting blog from our neighbor Malaysia. The country’s bloggers can blog anything here, and can also participate in what is called a blogging contest.

It’s one of good model of community blogs. Let’s take a look!

The AllMalaysian Bloggers Project (AMBP) is an undertaking of the folks behind the AllMalaysia.info website, all of whom believe strongly in the freedom of speech. The objective of this little project is to gather ALL Malaysian blogs under one umbrella site from which (potential) readers can find the various blogs by theme.

Posted in Malaysia, News | 1 Comment »

ABN blogger reports from Nokia Connection 2007, CommunicAsia 2007

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

There are two big ICT events will be held in Singapore this week: Nokia Connection 2007 (18 June 2007, Monday, Raffles City Convention Centre) and CommunicAsia 2007 (19-22 June 2007, Tuesday to Friday, Singapore Expo).

I’ve just arrived here today, and tomorrow will start to attend these interesting events.

An annual event to showcase the latest from Nokia, Nokia Connection is an opportunity to experience the future of design and technological innovation.

Spread over a total of eight halls, CommunicAsia — alongside EnterpriseIT, BroadcastAsia, and InteractiveDME — will see the gathering of over 2,400 companies as they come together to demonstrate the transforming powers of digital technologies.

Sure, I will blog about these event for AsiaBlogging.com, especially for Bahasa Indonesia-based blog, InfoGadget and english-blog, Gimme Gizmos.

So, don’t miss it! :-)

P.S. Don’t forget to read my special post on Nokia’s blog.

Posted in Event, News, Singapore | No Comments »

AsiaBlogging.com on Malaysian’s blogs

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Malaysia’s most respected commentator, and my fellow blogger on CNET Asia, Jeff Ooi, wrote about the launch of AsiaBlogging.com: “Asia Blogging Network… launched in Indonesia“.

Read also:

Posted in Malaysia, News | No Comments »

Who is gonna be La Liga winner? Let’s vote!

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Who is gonna be La Liga champions in this season? Real Madrid, Barcelona or Sevilla?

Let’s pick up your choice at our Poll at World Soccer and Liga Spanyol (see it at the Sidebar).

Posted in News | 4 Comments »

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