Reflections

By now, you will notice that there has been no direct participation or 'community action' on blogging for my proposal. One reason is probably the lack of knowledge of people who can access the blogging site on the issue on hand and those who are knowledgeable do not have access or can not access the blog site due to either having not links to the internet or restricted to access other sites apart from the work homepage.
It does become frustrating when I am not able to get what is expected, and further marked poorly for non-participation in a 'community action' context. The blogging concept is very good, however if it was based on a specific topic where we can contribute to as a group project, it would have worked wonders.
Because it was not possible to get my 'contacts' replying or contributing on my blog directly, it has been a problematic case for me on my project. I did forward e-mail messages, however it produced poor response from the number of contacts I linked up with. This itself also raise the problem of 'oh! he should have prepared himself before he left for studies'; 'he knows better than I do'; sorry, I'm busy'; you're joking!!' or even just ignorance. Those who have replied pointed to the need of such and contributed some ideas (see postings below).
Blogging is the modern IT method of communication and expression views and comments on issues online. The whole concept has been a no-savvy for me..or my fellow workmates back in my country. We had never been exposed to such. With our slow-paced internet services at workplace, it has been no help to understand what is blogging and what is it about. I ONLY learnt how to blog whilst attempting to create this site.
One point I would like to stress is that I had never been involved or engaged in any community action project formally or directly so I only wish whatever I do when I get back to my country in terms of community action is hopefully not to be seen as an influence from 'an outsider'.