Dr. Turton speech about blogging

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Michael Turton is a very successful blogger author, his blog "The view from Taiwan" receives every week thousands of visitors/readers. His blog contains a lot of useful information for foreigners and locals about social aspects like living in Taiwan, politics and so on.

Michael Turton is University English Instructor at Chaoyang University located in Taichung city, working in his PhD in Tainan.

Dr. Turton visits Mingchuan University in Taoyuan, Taiwan

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(Left to right) Dr. Michael Turton, Scott Summer and Dr. Graeme Bell.

Recently we have the honor to hear Dr. Turton speech at MingChuan University in Taoyuan, Taiwan. All the audience were second year Mass Communication student of IC (International College) of Ming Chuan Universtiy.

Presenting our guest was Dr.Graeme Bell, professor at Mingchuan University for the International college. Having another guest listening to Dr. Turton's speech was Scott Summer, another notorious blogger in Taiwan.

The original goal of Dr. Turton was to present general information about Taiwan.

Dr. Turton has been in Taiwan since 1999, and he has been writing articles since 1996, at this time Dr Turton built a website about Taiwan before blogging. With this website as a tool to connect the outside community (on the internet) about Taiwan, with a lot of pictures to show.

Dr Turton also have a web page about 'Teaching English in Taiwan'. This web page has links to other articles written by him like Teaching at the university at Taiwan, Travels and trips in Taiwan, related pictures of Taiwan just to name a few of his links.

Those articles are useful information for future visitors and people whom want know more of Taiwan, like Dr Turton said has information in social dating, travel, and people find it very useful. In his speech Dr Turton said that he started blogging since 2005, also worked with the Taiwan Independent Movement in Washington D.C. meaning that Dr Turton not just has contributed with articles on the internet about Taiwan, but also in cooperation groups helping to improve Taiwan image to the rest of the world.

In this video Dr Micheal Turton tell us that blogging is creating a community.

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Here is a 3 minutes video of Dr M.Turton, so readers can have a quick peek of what is blogging all about.

P.S: Sorry for the date of the video, the correct date is November 16, 2007.

Building Community 2nd Part, Dr. Michael speech

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Dr. Turton telling us more about blogging.

Dr. Turton reffers to blogging as 'building community, because there is a lot of people blogging in Taiwan, this creates a community with different topics to share and discuss.

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According to Dr Turton there is almost 2 millionof blogs in Taiwan, but not to many written in english (less than 1 thousand). Dr Turton explained to student of Mass Communication that use of blog is very important for marketing, companies or organization, so for him is really building a community and his website became the center of the blogging community in Taiwan.

An important observation that he noticed is that when he built a website to write about personal topics, he got disappointed about how the media is spreading a wrong impression about Taiwan, so Dr Turton started blogging to change the this image of Taiwan as a personal goals.

Dr Turton's personal goals:
1. Change the way how Taiwan is discussed in the world media
2. Raise Taiwan profile in the world.
3. Foster a Taiwan blog community.

Check out my Slide Show!

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