Archive for September, 2007

ABN & Nokia Blogging Roadshow

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

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 :).

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Nokia and ABN run Blogging Roadshow

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

JAKARTA – Collaborating with Asia Blogging Network (ABN), Nokia has carried out a blogging roadshow to five cities. Designated as “Nokia N-Series Blogging Workshop,” this program is now running in some High Schools located in Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Yogyakarta, and Surabaya.

The activities were hosted in SMA 82 Jakarta (26 August), SMA 1 Bandung (3 September), SMA 1 Semarang (8 September), and SMA 3 Yogyakarta (17 September). The last mile of the roadshow will be held in SMAK St. Louis 1, Surabaya, next Saturday, 22.

Eka Anwar, Multimedia Marketing Manager of Nokia Indonesia, stated that the workshops aim to socialize blogging activities among students and young people. “They could start blogging with various free services, such as Blogspot, WordPress, or Cooldesak; as one of the new features of N-Series community site in Indonesia,” said Eka, who is also one of the speaker of the roadshow.

Eka also figures that the progress in telecommunications and information technology infrastructure will shore up blogging activities. “More sophisticated mobile terminals also make it easier to blog on cellphones,” he uttered.

The CEO of ABN, Budi Putra, who is another speaker of the roadshow, said that the students had shown great interest to the workshop. “The main question being asked were about how to start blogging, how to manage the contents, and how blogging could make money,” he told.

Some prominent Indonesian bloggers, such as Enda Nasution, Ikhlasul Amal, Fany Ariasari, and Thomas Arie Setiawan were also involved to tell their vision and experience in blogging.

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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.

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