What is the Association of Bloggers (Singapore) about?
• Promoting, protecting, and educating its members Supporting the development of ‘blogging’ or ‘citizen journalism’ as new media Helping to extend the power of the press, with all the rights and responsibilities that entails, to every citizen. • It is founded on the principles of strengthening professionalism, training, education, business promotion, and ethics. When will AB(S) be officially launched? AB(S) is officially approved on January 16, 2008 after we have submitted the application together with our Constitution on December 9, 2008. Our immediate tasks are to work on AB(S) official website, to establish the membership program, and to organize the soft launch event in a month’s time – all these tasks have dependency on the official approval by the government. Do I have to be a blogger to join AB(S)? This is an association for the bloggers and hence, we encourage bloggers to join our Ordinary Membership. However, there is no restriction for the Corporate Membership. Is AB(S) a by