Post by Admin on Oct 15, 2013 18:39:11 GMT 7
Welcome to the Pertama forums!
I have always enjoyed myself in the forums. Over the past few months, I have been trying out many different forum formats and hosting packages before finally deciding on this one.
I like the flexibility of this forum and especially like the fact that this forum is hosted free of charge. There will be advertisements placed by the owner of the forum in the weeks ahead but I think this is a fair arrangement where the owner takes care of the technology and business aspects and I can focus exclusively on managing the forum.
In the past, I had trouble with spam registrations and advertisements when I was hosting the forum on my own. I am hopeful that this forum arrangement will be able to prevent such spamming as it really is no fun having to delete hundreds of registrations daily.
I am still learning about the many features of this forum and over the weeks and months ahead, I am most likely to add more features along the way.
One of the key reasons why I am trying the forum format again is because the facebook and the blog formats do not allow anonymous postings and I have realised that internet users much prefer the forum format. Without interactions, it can be rather boring keeping a facebook or blog page.
Here's looking forward to more people joining and having fun creating the 'kampong' spirit in this forum.
To make it easier for everyone to remember the url of this forum, I have pointed www.Pertama.com to go directly to this website. Pertama is the Malay word for number one.
Michael Leong / Oldman
Director, Raditech Pte Ltd
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Dr Michael Leong is a private equity investor. He founded ShareInvestor in 1999. ShareInvestor is a regional financial Internet media and technology company that provides online investor relations to listed companies and trading tools to retail investors. He sold ShareInvestor to Singapore Press Holdings in 2008.
Dr Leong started his IT career with IBM in 1991. By 1995, he was the regional general manager of IBM's healthcare & pharmaceutical division in the ASEAN and South Asian region. In 1997, he left IBM to become the CEO of SWi Holdings, an Australian owned regional healthcare IT company.
Dr Leong is a medical doctor by profession, having obtained his degrees from Queen's University Belfast, UK. He practiced in the UK for 6 years, specialising in emergency medicine. In his last year as a medical doctor, he practiced with a group of doctors operating out of Harley Street in London.
Dr Leong was a finalist in the ASME Netrepreneur of the Year 2001 award. In Oct 2002, he published a book Be An Entrepreneur reflecting his journey from professional to employee to entrepreneur. In April 2005, he was selected by Euromoney Institutional Investor as one of the top 30 worldwide Online Finance entrepreneurs. Dr Leong served on the 2005 - 2007 SGX (Singapore Exchange) Securities Committee.
In 2009, Dr Leong authored the book, Your First Million in which he shares his knowledge and experience as a private equity investor.
I have always enjoyed myself in the forums. Over the past few months, I have been trying out many different forum formats and hosting packages before finally deciding on this one.
I like the flexibility of this forum and especially like the fact that this forum is hosted free of charge. There will be advertisements placed by the owner of the forum in the weeks ahead but I think this is a fair arrangement where the owner takes care of the technology and business aspects and I can focus exclusively on managing the forum.
In the past, I had trouble with spam registrations and advertisements when I was hosting the forum on my own. I am hopeful that this forum arrangement will be able to prevent such spamming as it really is no fun having to delete hundreds of registrations daily.
I am still learning about the many features of this forum and over the weeks and months ahead, I am most likely to add more features along the way.
One of the key reasons why I am trying the forum format again is because the facebook and the blog formats do not allow anonymous postings and I have realised that internet users much prefer the forum format. Without interactions, it can be rather boring keeping a facebook or blog page.
Here's looking forward to more people joining and having fun creating the 'kampong' spirit in this forum.
To make it easier for everyone to remember the url of this forum, I have pointed www.Pertama.com to go directly to this website. Pertama is the Malay word for number one.
Michael Leong / Oldman
Director, Raditech Pte Ltd
----------------
Dr Michael Leong is a private equity investor. He founded ShareInvestor in 1999. ShareInvestor is a regional financial Internet media and technology company that provides online investor relations to listed companies and trading tools to retail investors. He sold ShareInvestor to Singapore Press Holdings in 2008.
Dr Leong started his IT career with IBM in 1991. By 1995, he was the regional general manager of IBM's healthcare & pharmaceutical division in the ASEAN and South Asian region. In 1997, he left IBM to become the CEO of SWi Holdings, an Australian owned regional healthcare IT company.
Dr Leong is a medical doctor by profession, having obtained his degrees from Queen's University Belfast, UK. He practiced in the UK for 6 years, specialising in emergency medicine. In his last year as a medical doctor, he practiced with a group of doctors operating out of Harley Street in London.
Dr Leong was a finalist in the ASME Netrepreneur of the Year 2001 award. In Oct 2002, he published a book Be An Entrepreneur reflecting his journey from professional to employee to entrepreneur. In April 2005, he was selected by Euromoney Institutional Investor as one of the top 30 worldwide Online Finance entrepreneurs. Dr Leong served on the 2005 - 2007 SGX (Singapore Exchange) Securities Committee.
In 2009, Dr Leong authored the book, Your First Million in which he shares his knowledge and experience as a private equity investor.
