One year ago, the Blog and Forum for Dynasty Garden Condominium were created.I have to admit that the inspiration of doing this blog comes from usj.com.my, an award winning website created for the usj community. The difference is that the DG blog and forum comes in a much smaller scale and rides on free hosting as I don't believe in selling advertisement via the blog. Not that i am anti-capitalist but i just want to maintain its independence. Imagine if a real estate agent adverstise through the blog and he/she is unscrupulous? Isn't that bad for the blog?
On its first month, there were 15 registered members. This is quite an 'achievement' as you all may know, the construction of the condo was still in progress and none of us buyers have met each other at that time. The blog and forum were launched in January 2008 while the key collection was done in October 2008. By the time we collected key, we already have more than 100 members and 1000 posts for the forum.
There was a suggestion to register the blog and forum to get a proper domain and hosting rather than using free blog via blogspot and makeforum. This idea is not being rejected but due to limited financial support, it's being kept in view for the moment. I do agree having a registerd domain will look more presentable, but i also believe that the content and value of the site is more important than its name.
I would like to emphasize here that neither the Webmaster, its DG Blog Team members are the 'leader' or the 'representative' of the DG community. Members have high expectation that we are responsbile to represent them. The objective of the blog and forum is to unite the DG residents/buyers beside as a tool of communication. We collect information and post it on the blog or the members can post it on the forum. That's what we do. We make a place for people to communicate. We collect information and let members know. That's what we do. We don't stop residents if any of them would like to be the 'representative' for the community and will always give our full support.
Throughout the one year, i must say thank you to all the members for supporting the blog and forum. There were so many contributions in many forms. Some sent photos, graphics, information, articles and of course, non-stop ideas and suggestions. Besides that, i must say thank you to some of you who have helped in technical support during the time the blog and forum had some technical problem and whenever need something to fix. This is solely due to the reason that i am not from the IT background and my knowledge in IT is limited but doing my best about it. I shall not mentioned who are the ones who has contributed and helped as you know who you are and this appreciation comes sincerely.
I believe the blog and forum has met its objective very well and been able to serve as a platform of communication among members. It's a surprise that when checked via the sitemeter, members (repeatedly) visited the site from many parts of the world, i.e. Singapore, Vietnam, Australia, China, Egypt, United States and of course East and West Malaysia. This means members wanted to know about the status of DG even when they are overseas and managed to do it through the blog and forum.
Well, one year is a small figure and there are many more years to go and many more improvement to be done. Without members support, the blog and forum won't be where it is today. Thank you and keep on supporting DG blog and forum.
The Webmaster
