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Jumaat, Jun 01, 2012

Blogger Fesyen Wanita


MENULIS merupakan profesion impian Jezmine Zaidan, 28. Selepas tamat pengajian di Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), Shah Alam, Selangor pada tahun 2008, beliau tidak menunggu lama untuk menggapai cita-cita tersebut.

Majalah fesyen dan kecantikan berbahasa Inggeris menjadi tapak kerjaya pertamanya. Namun, dalam kesibukan wanita yang berasal dari Kuching, Sarawak itu membina kerjaya baharunya beliau mula berjinak-jinak dengan dunia blog.

Daripada bertatih sehingga mampu berdiri, pengetahuan Jezmine terhadap bisnes blog berkembang pantas. Selepas hampir dua tahun berkecimpung sebagai penulis, beliau tekad melepaskan posisi itu demi meneruskan perniagaan dalam talian yang kian maju.

Pakaian yang dijual Jezmine ketika itu difokuskan pada konsep vintaj. Hampir 70 peratus pelanggannya merupakan wanita berketurunan Cina dan mereka yang meminati stail moden klasik.

Kesungguhan yang ditonjolkan Jezmine mendapat sokongan penuh ibu bapanya, malah mereka menyarankan beliau membuka butik.

“Pada mulanya berniaga menerusi blog ini hanya sampingan. Melihatkan pendapatan yang saya jana melebihi gaji yang saya terima sewaktu bekerja sebagai penulis sebelum ini membuatkan saya terfikir untuk pergi lebih jauh.

“Jadi selepas segala-galanya kukuh, saya membuka butik pada penghujung tahun 2009. Memiliki butik sendiri adalah impian hampir semua blogger.

“Alhamdulillah, berkat kerja keras dengan bantuan keluarga dan sahabat impian saya untuk memi sendiri menjadi kenyataan,” ujar Jezmine yang menamakan butiknya The Old Blossom Box Store.

Kemas kini blog

Walaupun sudah membuka butik, Jezmine tidak pernah berhenti mengemaskini blognya. Menurut beliau, rutin itu penting bagi berkomunikasi dengan sahabat blogger lain dan bertindak sebagai medium informasi dengan pelanggannya.

“Blog tempat paling mudah untuk mengumumkan sesuatu. Jika terdapat sebarang peraduan, aktiviti, diskaun, item baharu dan apa sahaja berkaitan butik saya akan sampaikan menerusi blog.

“Selain itu, saya juga memuat naik gambar-gambar saya bersama koleksi baharu dan menunjukkan cara-cara menyuaipadankannya,” tambah Jezmine.

Bagi Sara Shahnor, 30, pengalamannya dalam bidang perniagaan menerusi blog masih hijau. Lewat tahun 2010, beliau dan rakannya, Amalina Hanisah Mohd. Amin, 28, menubuhkan Ammara Hijabi.

Fasa awal perniagaan mereka amat sukar. Sara dan Amalina perlu bersaing dengan blogger-blogger lain yang turut menjual item yang hampir sama. Dalam kepayahan itu, mereka akhirnya mampu menyerlah berbekalkan rantaian formula yang berkesan.

“Ada orang menjadikan bisnes blog ini sebagai sampingan dan tidak memikirkan pelan jangka panjang. Kami berdua mahu perniagaan ini bertahan untuk tempoh yang lama, jadi perancangan rapi itu amat diperlukan.

“Pengetahuan tentang bajet, keusahawanan, rancangan kewangan dan pengurusan masalah perlu dikuasai. Formula paling utama ialah keaslian,” jelas Sara yang berasal dari Bangi, Selangor.

Amalina menyambung: “Keunikan dan keistimewaan menjadi pemisah antara kita dengan blogger lain. Dalam dunia blog, kita boleh mengesan siapa meniru idea orang dan siapa yang tampil dengan konsep tersendiri.

“Disebabkan itu, kami perlu sentiasa menawarkan elemen baharu kepada pelanggan dan menggunakan semua jenis laman sosial. Facebook, Twitter dan Tumblr antara ruang maya yang kami gunakan.”

Sejak awal penglibatan, Sara dan Amalina telah mengkhusus dalam perniagaan busana Muslimah. Wanita bertudung dan mereka yang mahukan gaya sopan menjadi sasaran utama.

Hampir 90 peratus pelanggan mereka ialah wanita berhijab. Item kegemaran pengikut blog dua wanita itu pula ialah turban segera. Dominasi penutup kepala itu dalam membentuk gaya Muslimah moden hari ini telah membuka dimensi berbeza.

Rombak konsep

Turban bertambah popular lebih-lebih lagi dengan adanya koleksi keluaran Ammara Hijabi. Selain mudah dipakai, ia juga menerbitkan aura glamor biarpun berciri kasual.

“Sesetengah turban kami dibawa dari Indonesia. Ia sesuai digayakan kaum Hawa yang berumur antara 19 sehingga 30 tahun. Pakaian Muslimah lain pula boleh ditempah mengikut cita rasa masing-masing. Kesemua barangan dijual pada harga antara RM30 sehingga RM250,” kata Amalina.

Sementara itu, kata Jezmine, seiring dengan usia butiknya yang hampir mencecah tiga tahun, beliau mula merombak konsep item jualannya. Dahulu sasaran hanya kepada wanita tidak bertudung, kini ia telah berubah.

Kelahiran pelbagai trend pakaian Muslimah menjurus Jezmine untuk berubah angin. Walaupun berdepan dengan risiko, namun hasilnya amat mengejutkan. Permintaan pakaian wanita berciri sopan melonjak secara drastik dan ia terus meningkat.

Menurut beliau, wanita bertudung kian bijak berfesyen dan berani bereksperimen dengan gaya moden. Baju kurung bukan lagi pakaian rasmi wanita Melayu Muslim, sebaliknya mereka mula menukar selera kepada seluar dan blaus yang sopan.

“Pakaian yang dijual masih menutup aurat dan saya menghormati pegangan itu. Tetapi tidak bermakna mereka tidak boleh melaram dengan blaus yang dilengkapi perincian menarik dan seluar panjang berona terang.

“Saya cuba menyuntik elemen humor dan ceria agar karakter si pemakai dapat diserlahkan. Corak polka dot pula menegaskan jiwa muda seorang perempuan. Tiada had umur ditetapkan, malah ia sesuai untuk kelompok pelajar sehingga golongan ibu.

“Material yang saya gunakan pula banyak daripada jenis sifon, kapas dan jersi. Mainan warna pula diutamakan pada palet pastel dan tidak lupa warna-warni,” ucap Jezmine yang ditemui bersama Sara dan Amalina di butiknya di Shah Alam baru-baru ini.

- KOSMO!

Ahad, November 22, 2009

On Why Bloggers Rule and What Rules the Bloggers (An Abstract)

By SONNY ZULHUDA
http://sonnyzulhuda.wordpress.com

The Internet is now a common platform of over one billion users in the world who exchange information, trade communications and transact commerce every now and then. This is the realization of what the website founders initially sought to achieve, i.e. a two-way communications in the cyberspace where writing information should be as simple as reading it.

At the heart of this phenomenon is now the website log – or blog. Blog is not merely a new technology, but it is now a trend. Individuals use blogs to express their feelings. Companies engage themselves in corporate blogging where they capture beneficial information to upgrade their services and achieve corporate objectives, and where marketers capture potential customers while they advertise for their products. And more pressing of all, blog is now an alternative to conventional media industry where individuals easily publish reports of incidents accompanied by their comments and views while getting rid of editorial and spatial barriers of conventional media. People have now often referred to online blogs to get information on ongoing incidents day to day. Given this situation, the luxury of information is now something of the past.

However, the bright innovation brought by blogs is not shaped only by its advantageous benefits but also by its contentious side. The social structure that has long defined the way we share information through conventional media is now shaking. As the editorial rules are gone in the online blogs, so do perhaps the rules of ethics and law. Except that rules of law, by nature, are equipped by an enforcing power through the instruments of the state. This is why despite the relaxation of other conventional rules of the game; governments are not easily loosening the rules when it comes to infringing rights of other people.

Hence the potential clash between bloggers and the law, especially when the legal rules restricting freedom of speech is implicated. In many jurisdictions, such freedom is subject to many sets of laws against defamation, false speech, hatred, religious beliefs and political stability. In Malaysia, for instance, blogs gained limelight when recently some prominent socio-political bloggers were sued for defamation. Such was among the first of its instance to be settled in court.

In the light of the above, this note sees the importance of undertaking three things: first, assessing the new phenomenon of online reporting by bloggers and their effect to the conventional media. Secondly, investigating legal rules that may restrict bloggers’ activities, citing the special cases of Malaysia. And finally, identifying certain strategic measures for online bloggers in order to minimize liability risks out of their publication online. The main message is to highlight the reality behind cyber world: just because they are online, bloggers are not exempted from certain traditional rules that have long shaped our life. Some adjustments are nevertheless necessary given the special circumstances for which the Internet and the blogs are invented.

Incidents involving bloggers in Malaysia as reported by media:

* On 11 January 2007, two political bloggers, Jeff Ooi and Ahiruddin Attan were sued by the New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Bhd and its staff over alleged defamatory words posted in their blogs. The plaintiff succesfully obtained court injunction to remove blog postings (The Star, 19 Jan 2007).

* On 23 July 2007, a police report had been lodged against Raja Petra under Sedition Act 1948, the Penal Code and the Communications and Multimedia Act 1988 for blog entries that allegedly contain writing that insult the YDPA, degrade Islam and incite hatred and violence between local ethnic group (The Star 23 July 2007).

* March 2008, High Court in Alor Setar, Kedah ordered Raja Petra to pay RM2 million to UUM and its VC Tan Sri Dr. Nordin Kadi for libellious posting alleging the plaintiff of plagiarism (The Star 27 March 2008)

* Raja Petra was detained under ISA 1960 for his blog comments allegedly insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. (The Star Online, 23 September 2008)

* Another blogger, Syed Azidi Syed Aziz was on 17th September 2008 arrested under the Sedition Act 1948 for publishing an image of the Malaysian flag upside down in his blog and for calling other bloggers to do the same as a sign of protest against the ruling government (The Star 19 Sept 2008).

* Umno Youth has lodged a report against Opposition leader Tian Chua over doctored photos in his blog involving the Deputy PM (The Star 11 July 2007). On a related incident, Nathaniel Tan, an aide to PKR adviser Anwar Ibrahim, was arrested in connection with a doctored picture of DPM posted on the Net (The star 14 July 2007).

* Chief Minister of Sarawak (Taib Mahmud) sued Utusan Malaysia, Malaysiakini and PKR officials over reports making allegations of corrupt practices against him (The Star 17 May 2007).

* In Sessions Court KL, a private school lab assistant was fined RM10,000 in default five months’ jail for posting offensive comments against the Sultan of Perak on the Internet in February 2009. Azrin Md Zain, 33, who is attached to Kota Damansara school, became the first person to be convicted in the summons case under the Multimedia and Communications Act 1998. (The Star, 14 March 2009). On related incidents (All below from the same source):

* In the same court above, self-employed Muslim Ahmad, 54, claimed trial to committing a similar offence in Setapak between Feb 7 and Feb 8.

* In Petaling Jaya, land surveyor Nor Hisham Osman, 36, pleaded not guilty to committing the same offence his residence in Seri Kembangan on Feb 11.

* In KOTA KINABALU, mobile phone shop owner Rutinin Suhaimin, 36, pleaded not guilty before Sessions Court judge Ummu Kalthom Abdul Samad who fixed May 25 and 26 for trial. Rutinin allegedly committed a similar offence at 6.33pm on Feb 13 at a shop in the interior Kundasang town at the foothills of Mount Kinabalu. He was released on a RM10,000 bail.

* In BUTTERWORTH, a couple was jointly charged at the Sessions Court with similar offences. Businessman Chan Hon Keong, 26, claimed trial to committing the offence at his house in Permatang Pauh on Feb 13. His wife Khoo Hui Shuang, 27, was not present when the charge was read as she was away in Sarawak. Chan was released on a RM6,000 bail. His case will be mentioned on April 15.

Sabtu, Julai 11, 2009

Submit blog to blog directories and increase the traffic

This post explains how to increase your blog traffic by submitting your blog to different kinds of blog directories which rates,provide statistics about your blog and provide free traffic and maximum exposure to your blog.

Submitting your blog to these directories is a very good thing to do particularly if your blog is very new one with low traffic.

These blog directories have high pageranks than your blog(since your blog is a new one with pagerank Zero).So, if someone searches for a particular keyword,there is more possibility for the blog directory to appear in the results than yours.

So,by adding your blog to these directories,the visitors enters these directories containing your articles(when they click the article,they enter your site) and also your blog posts will be indexed little faster.So,submitting your blog to these directories will gain you more traffic.

(If your blog is a new one,then put a visitors tracker button in your blog,sothat you will see how many visitors are coming from these directories,from search engines,visitors geolocation,etc).

Here are a few popular visitor tracker websites:

1.Histats(histats.com)
2.Sitemeter(sitemeter.com)
3.Statcounter(Statcounter.com)

So,let me come to the main topic...

Before submitting your blog to these blog directories,my personal suggestion is to create a new email address for this purpose so,your personal emails can't flooded with the emails from the blog directories administrators,etc.)Creating an email is free lol....creat one.

Many of these directories asks you to register before submitting blogs.
There are so many hundreds of blog directories,here is the list of very good popular directories which will send you maximum traffic.

LIST OF POPULAR BLOG DIRECTORIES:

Technorati:
http://technorati.com/
Technorati is the largest blog(weblog) directory currently tracking more than 112.8 million blogs.Join technorati and verify your authorship,then you will be provided with detailed statistics regarding your blog,how many blogs are linking to your blog,(they call it 'authority').It is one of the best blog directory and will send tons of triffic if your blog is regularly updated.

Topblogarea:
http://topblogarea.com/
This is another big blog directory which rates and rank the blogs interms of Unique visitors your blog gets.They start the counting from Zero every week, so that even newly submitted blog can have the chance to rank higher in the list.

Topblogging.com:
http://topblogging.com/
This is another source of weblogs which also rank the blogs according to the unique hits they get.Nice blog resource,bring you lots of traffic to your blog.

Blogtoplist:
http://blogtoplist.com/
Same here,they rank according to the unique hits you get.But,there is a little change, they will give you to place a voting button in your blog.If any visitor votes for your site from your blog,that is equal to 100 unique hits,but there is only one chance per visitor(one IP address) a day.

Fuelmyblog:
http://fuelmyblog.com/
This is a cool weblog resource which is different from the ones we discussed so far.You can vote to other blogs and others vote to you.They will keep the top six blogs(voted the most) on the homepage.You can join their forums, read other blogs content,joining in the compitetions and win prizes,etc.

MyBloggingarea:
http://mybloggingarea.com/
This is a very good weblog directory which ranks the blogs accoring to the unique visitors they get,brought me so much traffic to my celebrity blog than all the other blog directories.I recommend this.

BlogCatalog:
http://blogcatalog.com/
It is another good blogging resource,you can promote your blog here for FREE,find other blogs related to yours,etc.They have a special formula to rank the blogs,the more visitors,hits,comments,neighbourhood you get the more your rank will be.Another recommended one.You can join their forums,discussion board,groups,etc with other bloggers and share your thoughts.

BloggingFusion:
http://bloggingfusion.com/
It is a new one and not a very big one(around 950 blogs) at this time.But,it is a good one and doing pretty well.You can increase your blog exposure, worth a link to it.

Bloghop:
http://bloghop.com/
You can find blogs related to your blog topic here.Have a nice tracking button and currently having more than 29,000 blogs.

Blogarama:
http://blogarama.com/
Cool weblog directory currently having more than 69,000 blogs.It will list the blogs in terms of the score your blog have.The score depends on so many things like incoming traffic,outgoing traffic,user ratings,etc. and if you send more traffic to they,they will list your blog in the top 100 blogs.

Topbloglists:
http://topbloglists.com/
Another blog directory which will rank your blog according to the unique hits your blog will get.

Myblogdirectory:
http://myblogdirectory.com/
This doesn't list blogs interms of any visitors,etc. All blogs are listed randomly so,every blog get the same exposure.If you sent more traffic from your blog to them,your blog will be choosen as a BLOG OF THE DAY which will be placed on the homepage and your blog will recieve the whole traffic their site gets on that day.

Blogroll.net:
http://blogroll.net/
Another blog resouce which rank accorking to the votes and unique hits your blog get.

SOURCE:
http://www.bloggertricks.com

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