Online Nowadays plays a huge role in our daily lives. It is an avenue of finding a job, an online marketing, looking for friends and relationships, and it made convenience to the operation of any course of action. Blogging is one powerful media that made a person invigorate his/her field I am an Economics Student and i spend my Four years in college in analyzing various economic problems, solving innumerable equations, graphs and forecasting economic conditions. I can’t imagine my self now, playing the world of no boundaries, the so-called "WEB". I started exploring the web, when I was 15; back then, I only had this social network; friendster. I am not aware that the online world is very interesting and very fun to do. I start to explore the internet blogging ! And I kept on surfing the internet and visiting others blogs, at the same time I read lots of articles in national bookstore. Until I found my self-Blogging. I considered blogging as a therapy. I can speak and write based on my feeling and broadcast it to the limitless world of web. in short It is my online diary. When i was in First Year College. I don’t have a computer in my house so Im renting a computer everyday. I signed up in Blogger.com and started to blog . On that scenario, I learned a lot about HTML, CSS, XTML and others. No one taught me, even a single formal training on towards that thingy, I just surfed the Web, download the web design and edit it on my own. Because of my controversial blog, I got innumerable readers and even in my University , I became popular. Everybody asked my next blog post. When i reached second year, I applied as an University Student assistant and fortunately they hired me, its another way of increasing income, I was assigned at the supplies office, luckily I have my own personal internet connection inside the office, so its an advantage for me to continue blogging and its a huge help to me. Because of my daily blog updates, my reader’s numbers rapidly grew. Various professors congratulate me. From being nobody, my blog motivates me to become somebody. When i was third year college, I am already equipped with knowledge when it comes to facebook application and its a continuous learning for me .Until the Publication's chief of mass media appointed me to become a part of their editorial board and I am the web designer. I am very thankful because i am appointed to become a part of the publication without any screening like what the other journalist experienced. That was a big break and opportunity to me. When I started inside the newsroom, I did my job in the web but at the same time I was trained also to bec ome a writer. Various seminars and training inside the newsroom that lead me into the world of learning. I learned how to layout image using adob e photo shop, how to layout magazines and tabloid using adobe illustrator, where in its a huge contribution in web designing. I learned that because of the publication who cultivate me and nurtured me a lot. And now I am the section editor of the said publication. Simultaneously I am now studying my senior years in Economic course.
Here are the persons who inspired me to continue my interest online:
- Lloyd Luna- A 27-year-old Filipino Motivational Speaker shares his Success Philosophies - and his life story is very similar to mine.
- Brian Gorrell - A gay man , and a controversial blogger who admit online that he is an AIDS positive
- M.D. dela Cruz Tan- the editor of outrage mag.com-- that craeted a site based on their advocacy