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| Money. Blogging. Technology. These three elements form the impetus which motivates Kenneth Dickson to develop InvestorBlogger.com. Currently residing in Taiwan, Kenneth Dickson is an expatriate who manages Dickson's English House, a learning center where Taiwanese kids can improve their English language proficiency. InvestorBlogger.com is a platform which Kenneth Dickson utilizes to share his financial insights, mistakes and experiences. It is through his ideas and opinions that he wishes to impart knowledge about doing business in Taiwan to prospective businessmen and interested readers alike. Read the interview here. |
 | Taiwanese blogger Ya-Ya Ching has attracted nearly 2 million visitors to her blog, with more than 200,000 hits a day. The secret behind Ya-Ya's success? Probably attributed to her less conventional writing topic. Ya-Ya is on a quest to kiss 100 random men while studying in Paris. Her blog documents her attempts at garnering smooches from these strangers, with a vivid story detailing the moments leading up to each kiss. Each romantic conquest is also accompanied with pictures, featuring picturesque French locales in the background. Ya-Ya came up with the idea three years ago and has found great success since she started this summer. Despite the controversial subject matter, she has managed to capture the imagination and interests of the Taiwanese blogging community, giving them a glance into the life of a whimsical Taiwanese girl in the city of love. So far, she has snagged 54 kisses. Read the interview here. |
 | In an effort to reach out to this growing group, the Taiwan Tourism Bureau targeted a large chunk of its advertising this year towards luring bloggers to the island. They are capitalizing on a global trend. The Tourism Bureau is betting that the winning bloggers will share exciting stories and pictures from their trip and entice others to visit Taiwan. So why the idea of asking contestants to blog? We ask Cathy Hung this and much more. Read the interview here. |
| Interviews of 2008: |
Mr. Portnoy is an avid blogger. The main theme of his blog is media, although he also blogs about his personal thoughts on politics, technologies, news and life. As a Master Degree holder in Telecommunications and Journalism, he was intrigued by the influence of the blogosphere and has since maintained a strong passion in Web 2.0. Mr. Portnoy is a respected and credible blogger in the Taiwanese blogosphere and was invited to be a contributor as part of the Global Voices team. Global Voices (GV) is a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School that seeks to promote freedom of expression. The GV organization’s goal is to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online by shining light on places and people other media often ignore. As a contributor, Portnoy made sense of interesting news and information generated by Taiwan’s online citizen media and made these information available to GV, so that GV readers can be exposed to hot topics in the online citizen media which mainstream media may not be reporting. He began as a volunteer contributor and soon after became a GV author, reporting on the Taiwanese blogosphere, which is focused mainly on travel and technology, and some politics. Mr. Portnoy was also the inspiration behind the Global Voices’ Lingua project. Project Lingua was established to amplify GV in languages other than English with the help of volunteer translators, opening the lines of communication with non-English speaking bloggers and readers of GV by translating main GV site content into other languages. Mr. Portnoy is currently an active contributor (translator) to the GV in Chinese. Read the interview here. |
| Scott Sommers is currently an instructor in the English Language Center at Ming Chuan University in Taipei. He has lived in Taiwan since 1996 and prior to joining MCU in 2002 taught business English in Taipei and Taipei County. Before Taiwan, Mr. Sommers taught at universities, colleges, and business companies in South Korea and Japan. Scott reveals in his blog that the real reason that he started his blog is that he enjoys writing. He blogs mainly about education in Asia and particularly, language education – a subject that he is most familiar with. He also writes about other matters of academic interest, such as books that might interest his readers or current ideas. One of his main purposes of writing his blog was to clear up confusion that cluttered the Internet about finding jobs at Taiwan universities and Scott has experienced some successful at this. It is now possible to find the information one needs to launch a credible job search in Taiwan. However, he continues to view this as one of the main reasons for his blog. Read the interview here. |
Dell’s blog, called “one2one”, allows employees to post messages and videos in their own voices and under their own names; and it allows readers to submit comments, even negative ones. Dell, the American technology company, launched its Chinese blog in March 2007 for the Chinese in Taiwan and China. In fact, Dell was the first technology company to launch a corporate blog in Chinese, and the blog has now grown into a great tool for Dell to connect with customers directly and reach out to reporters and digital influencers. With more and more Chinese people getting online, it became increasingly important for Dell to connect with customers via the internet in the language they feel most comfortable speaking. In our email interview with blog master Jacqui Zhou, she essentially mentions that the blog had become a necessity to make sure Dell’s communications keeps pace with its growth, and enable it to better serve and communicate with its customers. Read the interview here. |
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