First of all, I’d like to congratulate Budi Putra for being selected as a permanent contributor to CNET Asia. One of the big time techno portals in Asia, if not the world. That’s truly an achievement as he’s the first and only Indonesian to pen his piece regularly there, and is among the exclusive eight IT writers in Asia. He’s supposed to write twice a week for one year in a column specifically allocated for him.
What does make the CNET shows interest at him and how does it happen? Simple. Because he’s blogging in English. And that enable everybody outthere to take notice on your potential and capability.
Interestingly, he said that he’s blogging in English because of and inspired by me. And as an acknowledegment, he wants me to be the first person who should know the very good news. In his email he says:
Anda adalah orang pertama yang saya kasih tahu soal ini. Why? Karena Andalah yang mendorong saya agar terus menulis bahasa Inggris. Sejak bulan lalu saya juga menulis artikel IT untuk The Jakarta Post.Sekali lagi, terimakasih atas dorongannya. Anda dan blog Anda benar2 telah menginspirasi saya.
Well, to be honest that’s quite a compliment. I am happy personally. Having said that as I repeatedly say the other day, a personal happiness will last short. It’s a happiness that goes beyond my personal feeling and personal interest that last longer: to see Indonesian bloggers flourish with their English-speaking blog in the international blogosphere and gain unthinkable and unimaginable benefits out of it. What Budi Putra has achieved for now, I believe, just a beginning, a tip of an iceberg. Many more to come for sure, for him and for anyone who follows his path.
[...] point why I share this news with you, our honorable readers, is that: this is one of many benefits if you’re blogging in English [...]
[...] One of article which written by Fatih Syuhud is very inspiring me. He write about “Ten reason why we blog in English”. For me now, only one reason why I really wanna writing blog in english, it’s because my English is not good, hehe… and you know what, that thing make me very like to speak or write in English, can you imagine that, I like English but my English is not good, hoho.. On his blog, Fatih Syuhud also write about “Bow blog in English could be benefit for you” [...]
ia saya mulai nih ngeblog pakai bahasa inggris biar lancar inggrisnya, sekalian juga
I also be inspired by this blog, But, I feel I dont have skill to write as jounalizm poeple, and it’s like to read the style writing of this blog …but I can not write like this …
Congratulations, my name is Gabriel I’m from Venezuela and you inspired me to do a blog in English, some tips to get started? Thanks
Years ago sitting in a chair at an internet cafe as the night crept away, I stumbled upon a blog and found the benefits of blogging in English. I started to blog but I quit after months full of struggle. I now resume blogging, really try to make my best efforts to both my undertake of honing my writing skills and grabbing some bucks to feed myself. And that blog was fatihsyuhud.com.
#hey, thanks if i could inspire you. but to succeed, you should see beyond me. problogger.net and johnchow.com i think are the best places to hang out to learn how to sell yourself in the blogging world. wish you luck. keep writing in English with patience, passion and vision (if you want some bucks from it)
yeah, I’ll try posting in english, thanks.
menginspirasi kami juga pak