NST Writing Blogs Workshop

NST Writing Blogs Workshop participants
Photo by Wuan.

Since Suanie has blogged about this event, I am just going to write briefly about it and put up some photos. New Straits Times organized a workshop on blogging at its premises at Jalan Riong. Suanie was the coordinator and chief facilitator. It was a two day event. Suanie invited me and several other bloggers to speak. She slotted me into the session just after lunch on Sunday on April 12. The morning sessions were conducted by Timothy Tiah and Foong Cheng Leong.

Peter Tan at the NST Writing Blogs Workshop
Photo by Wuan.

I had planned to talk for half an hour and leave the other half for questions and answers. Unfortunately, I talked for nearly fifty minutes and left only ten minutes for the Q & A session. Luckily, the two or three questions were short and by the time I finished answering, my session ended just in time for Yvonne Foong to take over.

Yvonne Foong at the NST Writing Blogs Workshop
Photo by Wuan.

The topic of my talk was “Blogging As A Tool For Advocacy.” I also shared a few tips on search engine optimization (SEO) that I use on my blogs to get listed higher in the search engine results page (SERP) and provide more relevant information in the listings. This is imporant to draw organic traffic and get the message out for activists who use the Internet as a tool to advocate.

NST Writing Blogs Workshop group photo
Photo by Wuan.