Malaysian Indian Bloggers

Malaysian Indian Bloggers Wanted. Makals…Seacam is conducting training on how to start a political blog for free. Yes…for free. You’re only eligible if you don’t have a blog. Ermmm…sounds funny rite. Whoever who have an intention to start a blog, please commit yourself to attend the training. Best part is, they are teaching on how to blog with wordpress. Wordpress is a new blogging platform technology. For your info, MakalVoice is on Wordpress platform too. Dear Brothers and Sisters…please take advantage of this kind of trainings. We may perhaps create more awareness among Indians if all the young generation could come forward to contribute little bit of their time for our community. Hope to see more political bloggers soon. Just drop me an email at webmaster@makalvoice.com if you have attended the training. It could be helpful to create a database of Indian Political Bloggers and to help each other in the near future. Below are the detailed info about the training. Adios.

Training New Generation of Fearless Bloggers

The Southeast Asia Centre for e-Media cordially invites Malaysians to participate in the 2008 CyberActivist Clinic. The objective of the CyberActivist Clinic to identify and develop new and potential bloggers to champion various governance issues Malaysia.

Date: 5th and 6th April 2008
Venue: Malaysiakini Office, Bangsar

Upon the completion of the training sessions, participants will be encouraged to address the following broad areas:

* Civil Liberties and Political Participation
* Democratic Political Culture
* Functioning of Government
* Electoral Process and Pluralism
* Contemporary Malaysia Politics

The Training Program

The CyberActivist Clinic is a 1-day training sessions based on the following modules:

Module 1: Mastering Wordpress (3 hours)

* A computer lab training session to expose participants to the Wordpress CMS
* One-to-one mentoring of setting up a Wordpress blog

Module 2: CyberActivism: Case Study of People’s Parliament (1 Hour)

* People’s Parliament: Goals, Strategy, Outreach and Outcome
* Questions and Answers Session

Module 3: Introduction to e-Marketing (2 hours)

* Expose to various techniques to increase visitors in Malaysia
* Formation of New Bloggers Support Group

Training Itinerary

9:45am to 10:00am - Registration (by Miss Rachel)

10:00am to 1:00pm - Mastering Wordpress (by Sean Ang)

1:00pm to 2:00pm - Lunch Break

2:00pm to 3:00pm - Case Study: People’s Parliament (by Haris Ibrahim)

3:00pm to 5:00pm - Introduction to e-Marketing (by Sean Ang)

Expected Workshop Outcome

Participants are expected to launch their new political blog within 2 weeks upon the completion of the training session.

Eligibility

1. Must Not have any Blog
2. Having working knowledge of Malaysia politics

The training is supported by Free Voice of Netherlands . Lunch and training materials will be provided. Since the course is FREE, priority will be given to those who demonstrate good writing ability.

For registration please contact Miss Kalai (017-6724172) or email to sean@seacem.com