Our Blog is Launched!

Posted on January 3, 2009 by tarcasa

Dateline: 2 January 2009

Happy New Year 2009!

To kick off the new year, we are most proud and pleased to launch our TARCASA blog. It’s taken us some time to get it off the ground but we finally did it!

Many kudos to our blog moderator Pauline Teo Hwa Ling for all the hard work invested in this project. Despite not truly being a person with an IT background, she took this challenge and embraced it well. The aesthetics, feel and ease-of-use of our blog has her fingerprints all over the place. Also, many thanks to our ‘beta testers’ who assisted us whilst this blog was undergoing its test phase not too long ago. We are still looking into some of your noteworthy comments and would love to act according to the suggestions put forth – if we can somehow master a little bit of programming, that is! 🙂

We decided to set up this blog as a means to reach out to members across the 6 campuses and to quickly disseminate to everyone information that may drop onto our laps here in KL. Likewise, we strongly encourage members to write to us and tell us what boggles them. Or maybe you could pay some compliments too….

Having said that, a few ground rules are definitely in order here. As you may have already noticed, this is a public blog. No registration is required to gain access here. That means ANYONE and EVERYONE can read our postings and in turn, post comments as well (yes, even our College Management too). That being the case, we STRONGLY urge all commentators, present and future, to moderate your own posts. Barring which, our moderator will step in and do the obvious. It is not so much we are fearful of antagonistic comments aimed at us, but rather we are wary of the veritable minefield of legislative laws we may unwittingly fall foul of all because of one ‘naughty’ comment.

Alright then, folks, happy blogging!

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8 Responses

  1. AMR, on January 5, 2009 at 11:34 am said:

    go TARCASA go!!!!
    happy new year to all the TARCASA members.
    how about the bones??

  2. tarcasa, on January 6, 2009 at 5:00 pm said:

    Bones? Or do you mean bonus? 🙂

  3. LimCH-SBS, on January 6, 2009 at 5:40 pm said:

    Congratulations Pauline Teo. Great start to the New Year.

    Hope that this blog does not contain comments on the frustrations working in TARC on below industry remunerations.

  4. Wong Pik Har - SBS, on January 7, 2009 at 5:42 pm said:

    It is very healthy to benchmark ourselves for improvement. In life, money is important BUT not the only thing in life.

    To be forward looking, TARC may like to review the package as a whole in order to attract and sustain good lectures and staff. Education industry is very competitive. We MUST not lose out to our competitors and TARC would like to be the market leader, I am sure!

    A journey of a thousand mailes is always start with a single step!

  5. LimCH-SBS, on January 7, 2009 at 6:16 pm said:

    Pauline,

    A suggestion to consider:

    This blog is too open. No security.

    Suggest the users be regulated by registration controlled by the blog master. Registration is via the tarc email address as the user name.

  6. tarcasa, on January 8, 2009 at 9:19 am said:

    Dear LimCH,

    Thank you for the suggestion. One of the first considerations we thought about when setting up the blog was to go public or private. We chose the former because: –

    1. We believe in our viewers maturity level to know what to post and how to espouse their views appropriately.

    2. We feel making it compulsory to register may throw some people off from sharing. Any added layer of administrative process may actually have the effect of discouraging some from continuing. Then again, we are not exactly running a blog in the volatile style of Raja Petra Kamaruddin (RPK), so we feel there is no need to register. 🙂

    3. Having said that though, when it comes to certain sensitive issues e.g. the soon-to-happen CA negotiation by year end, perhaps we may introduce a special section whereby registration is indeed compulsory. But the overall blog is still public.

  7. tarcasa, on January 8, 2009 at 9:21 am said:

    Yes, Ms. Wong. Fully agreed. We hope many lecturers too share your outlook.

  8. Pauline, on January 8, 2009 at 5:45 pm said:

    Thanks LimCH, but the bulk of the effort goes to our president and I believe that our Tarcasa council 2008/09 hopes that the blog will serve as a platform for communication among its members as well as an effective tool to disseminate important information, not so much as a site to voice our grouses or dissatisfactions about our job. We can of course post comments or suggestions that we wish to convey to the management or even request for advice on a problem we’re facing with regards to our profession. However, for the time being, registration is still not compulsory as all comments will be filtered by the blog moderator/president when necessary.

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