User:Goudotmobi

''' Hello Wikipedia, Wikipedians and the respective readers out there! '''

I would like to take the opportunity to introduce myself (Goutama Bachtiar) before creating and publishing my first content to this awesome site.

Yesterday, July 29 (2012) was the time I decided to start contributing. Having been producing content - writing in particular - since 1998 in college, I am very excited and thrilled being part of this broad global network of individuals, organizations, chapters, clubs and communities across the globe. Personally and professionally, Wikipedia and its other projects which is freely used, freely edited, freely copied and freely redistributed to three billion current (internet) users as its "captive market" have gained my respect and admiration at the most. It will play more important role in minimizing the information divide as time goes by, a situation which is frequently found in under-developed and less-developed countries.

As of today July 30 2012, according to Executive Director Sue Gardner of Wikimedia Foundation, Inc (the non-profit organization behind Wikimedia), the site contains over than 17 million articles in 270 languages and used by more than 400 million people every month.

Back to my introduction, I am a technologies, trainer, lecturer, author and writer based in Jakarta, Indonesia for 13 years. Currently working in one of multinational Information Technology (IT) and Services companies in the capital city, I manage myself to be an Independent Corporate IT and Information Systems (IS) Trainer, Lecturer and Consultant in several ICT Training, Education Centers and corporations, Senior Contributing Technology Writer, Advisor and Expert Columnist for several business and technology magazines, technology blogs, news and portals. Travel, culture, photography, music (R&B, jazz and classic), films (independent, European), culinary (especially Asians), long back coffee and soccer (alongside sports) are among my myriad interests.

 My Missions 
 * Posting quality articles as many as I can
 * Knowing, meeting and greeting other contributors of this broad global network
 * Hopefully involving and participating actively in chapters in general and, local chapters in particular
 * Last but not least, helping Wikipedia to be a trust worthy reference

 Writing Aids 
 * Thesaurus
 * Oxford Dictionary
 * Internet (for sure!)
 * Related events, posts, articles and any other materials

Below is the my affiliated organizations and corporations. Please perceive the announcement as the disclaimer to avoid segregation of duties during my voluntary tenure in this most powerful volunteer collaboration and open content sharing in the world today.

 Organizations and Corporations 
 * Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF): Member
 * Project Management Institute (PMI): Member
 * Internet Society (ISOC): Member
 * Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED): Member
 * Indonesia HR Portal, portalhr.com: Advisor
 * Indonesia Marketing Portal, marketing.co.id: Columnist
 * TechWireAsia: Contributor
 * e27.sg: Senior Contributing Writer
 * FORBES Indonesia Magazine: Contributor
 * Indonesia Science Portal NetSain.coms: Contributor
 * detikINET: Columnist
 * PCMedia: Contributor
 * InfoKomputer: Contributor