Don't Worry, Be Happy

To my dear netpreneur friends,
don't worry if you feel that you're not really capable of doing technical stuffs in computing. In this information literacy age, you can learn anything, anytime! All you have to do is to get online and search for the keyword through search engines.

For example, you want to know how to build a website. Just go to google.com and type "how to build a website". To search the whole phrase, you can simply put the phrase in a bracket like [how to build a website].

Even more exciting! You can also find tutorials that comes in the form of video. Go to YouTube.com and type your keywords.

If you're looking for tutorials in Bahasa Indonesia, you can go to ilmukomputer.com.

Happy Learning!

Don't worry, be happy!

Oh, Happy Day!

Hello to all my dear aspiring netpreneur friends,

I hope you’re all progressing well with your IM projects. As for my projects, most are family projects since the four of us (Mom, Dad, I, and my brother) are now learning IM together. I am happy to learn that our web hosting account has just been created. From this point onwards, we can take further steps to actually launch our own web!

Work is still in progress. But, don’t worry. I’ll launch the web right here on my blog as soon as it is fully ready. You’ll be among those first persons to visit the web. I will still have to wait for the payment gateway validation, etc. So, it’ll take some time.

Well, that’s one of the things that had made my day. Another thing is a surprise visit to my blog from one of my IM gurus! I logged into my blog yesterday and found that few people have added comments. I checked them out immediately and I was very excited to see that Andy Hun kindly visited and added comments! (Hi, Andy! Thanks for dropping by!) It’s really nice to keep in touch with fellow netpreneurs, especially with your own guru. He..He..

To those who might have read my previous article, I mentioned that I first learned IM from a video tutorial made by Terence Tan and Andy Hun. Well, it’s true. I first watched the video in January 2007 and I really had no idea where to start. But then I watched the video again and again until I came to a point where I decided to try at least one of the things taught in it. This blog of mine is actually set while I’m watching the video tutorial on another window! Everything was set according to the tutorial. After that, I have tried to learn from other learning resources, as well as to enhance my skills.

What I’ve learned so far (and this can also be a great tip to those who are still don’t know where to start) is to take action! Whatever materials you’ve been struggling with (video tutorials, workbooks, newsletters, etc), you have to practice it as soon as you read or watch them. Don’t get carried on with the readings. You don’t need to finish all the readings then start practicing. You also don’t need to practice the materials in sequence. Just practice the things that you feel that you can execute at that very moment then let yourself progress from that point. The more your practice, the more you will understand. To tell you the truth, I didn’t even know how to blog at first. But, then I understand it more and more after I practice it.

I hope the tip will be useful for you. It’s an old tip, but it lasts for a reason: it WORKS!

G’luck! I’ll be waiting for the news on your progress..To our success!!

Video : How to setup a blog at blogger.com

Hello to all my netpreneur friends!
How are you today? I hope you're doing well and making progress every day. People have been asking me on how I set up this blog. Well, personally, I read some books and also learned from a video tutorial by Terence Tan and Andy Hun.

For Indonesian resources, I read the books written by Fany Ariasari ("Pernak-Pernik Blog:Cantik, Atraktif, Fungsional") and Kukuh Prakoso ("Nge-Blog!? So what gitu loh.."). I also visited other people's blogs and learn from their blogs. There are lots of blog portals. In Indonesia, most of bloggers are familiar with WartaBlog.com. You can submit your blog to WartaBlog and get your link shown on WartaBlog's index page.

To make it easier for you, I have tried to look for a tutorial video on YouTube. I found one that is quite simple to follow. It's a video on how to setup a blog at blogger.com, like mine that you're reading at the moment. Enjoy the video and go create your own blog!

If you can't watch the video on my blog, you can go straight to the video's URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ0KOOVxD5A

p.s. Let me know when your blog is done, so I can pay a visit. :-)

G'luck!