Yesterday I attended the Bloggers Buff which organized by Putera MIC. I want to thank for their efforts to put this event together and allow me and many others bloggers learn more about our responsibilities when we blog.

It is the best time to talk about this now as we have seen some negative comments from the politicians and leaders in the country. Through out the session, we have honorable guesses who share with us about code of blogging. They are Dato’ Ahmad Talib – Former NSTP Group-Editor, P. Kamalanathan – Public Relations practitioner & Soon Li Tsin, journalist of Malaysia Kini.

Below are some of the sharing from guesses:

If you want to be heard, you must say something that made sense.

Don’t create a statement without good reason to support your statement. If you didn’t bother go and find out the details and blog about the issue, your objective is obviously can be seen by your readers. Blogging can be very personal and emotion, it is dangerous you play around with other people emotion.

People are forgetting “Sorry” words nowadays.

Nowadays people aren’t prepared to say sorry when their blog articles hurt someone due to their intention to be heard. They aren’t there to say “sorry” when necessary and worst still they pretend to say “Sorry” when they know they should. Bloggers should be responsible for what they said.

Self-regulation

It is important to ask ourselves when I blog about a topic, do I offense anyone or not. Being a blogger, it is better to exercise self-sensorship. Sometimes, this self-discipline will reduce a lot of unnecessary argument and conflict.

Credibility is the keystone of blogging

Blogging can be influential. It carries your own identity and hence, credibility is very important. When you comment on some other people blog post, it is important to use your real identity name to give your opinion. While you might think that you can blog on anonymous and people might not able to know you. However, it is not true. We can still track on the anonymous if we really want to. So, blog with your real name and take the responsibility when it comes to you.

Know the reasons to Blog

Do you know why you want to blog? What are your compelling reasons for that? Without that, you will not able to blog long and very soon you will run out of topic to blog. Blog with passion and you will love more to blog.

Ready to receive criticism

Put it this way, there will be no way what you are writing will please EVERYONE. There will be someone somehow either call you, email you how they don’t like you. Even Kenny Sia also shared his experience which someone who just tell him he is fat. Why is he taking pictures with so many beautiful girls? And many others negative feedbacks. We just ignore all these comments and continue our passion.

People Demand The Accurate Information but not just information

With the advancement of the technology, we are able to retrieve the information online easily. However, people are demanding to know the exact scenario but not the gossip or speculation news which determine the source are not clear in later stage. People claimed that they are getting news from reliable source but reliable to who?

Trust is not demand but earn

It is very true, if you want to receive trust from readers, you should do your best to earn it. You can demand someone to believe you if you are not deserve for it. I would like to use the illustration below to inspire you.

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I really feel good after attending this event, it enlighten me about the important of my role in blogging. The only regrets is I don’t have camera with me to take some snapshots with all the pretty girls and handsome boys. I want to congratulate the project director, Mahendran and his team members who working hard to make this event on. I look forward to see this event take place again in another 6 months time. Lastly, I apologies for any grammar mistake I made from this post, any point that I overlooked and didn’t include here, feel free to leave your comments here.

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