Introduction to blogging at PanAsianBiz

PanAsianBiz was where I first got my feet wet in blogging. My introduction. My initiation. My baptism. My first steps.

I had heard the word ‘blogging’ for maybe a year or more and thought to myself, “Hmm… I ought to look into it.” But didn’t. Then I did.

Blogging about Asia

When I finally took the dive, I played around with a site, www.writingup.com . Don’t bother looking, it has fallen off the face of the Internet. That is, it is no longer hosted anywhere.

While playing around at WritingUp, I exchanged comments with someone, sorry I don’t remember his name (Matt?), and he told me of a business blog network, www.knowmoremedia.com (still around, sorta) and recommended I approach them to write about business in Asia. It had come up in one of my posts that I had spent considerable time living in Asia (almost 20 years).

I looked at KMM’s sites and saw they did not have anything devoted to international business, much less something in Asia. So I pitched my idea jumped through some hoops and sent off some trial posts. And…drum roll, please, got accepted.

PanAsianBiz was born. First post – March of ’06.

The site is about, see if you can guess – bsiness in the PanAsian region.

I wrote about China a LOT. And Japan. And ventured into Russia, Korea and India. Now the site has a lot to do with India…mostly because my team of writers live in India.

PAB, we call it, was first. Have a look, if you will.