I have just checked and according to our records, Howzit-HongKong.com has been live and online since 27 January 2009.  That’s just over a year and a half.

In this time, we have posted a total of 395 different stories and video clips.   You may have noticed that for the last few months, we have posted at least one story a day.

Additionally, the stats from the top South African blog aggregator Amatomu shows that this blog is read widely in many countries around the world, but especially in Asia and, of course, South Africa.

If you have a look at the widget on the top right-hand corner of our homepage, you will notice that Howzit-HongKong.com/blog is currently ranked at No. 251 IN AFRICA!

I would like to “test” the usefulness and popularity of this blog by taking it to the next level:

The 2010 South African Blog Awards.

If you feel that we deserve to by ranked by the SA Blog Awards, please feel free to NOMINATE US by clicking on the banner below:

Note:

* Once you’ve nominated Howzit-HongKong.com/blog, the SA Blog Awards system will remember you first nomination, so any other nomination will cancel the first one.

* You have to enter a valid e-mail address to confirm your nomination.

* Nominations close on 27 August 2010

* Voting phase starts on 1 September – 17 September 2010

Thank you in advance for your support.

Mike Jansen

Here at Howzit-HongKong HQ, our photo collection currently numbers 2648 images organized in some 63 sets/categories.  Please visit our Flickr page or this post entry regularly for updates.  This post entry can also be accessed from the homepage

Have a peep:

Readers of Howzit-HongKong.com can now share any blogposts directly via their Twitter accounts at the click of a button.  If you open any post on our website, scrolling down to the bottom of the post you will find a “Tweet this post” button.  

Clicking on it, provided your Twitter account is open (if not, you have to first log on) it will convert the Howzit-HongKong URL to a suitable Twitter link and send it to all your Twitter followers. 

That’s one way you can help us share whatever is posted here.

You can also follow Howzit-HongKong.com by adding: @HowzitHongKong

I hope you will help us make Howzit-HongKong.com more effective.

Mike Jansen

Howzit Hong Kong! has been down for a while due to site maintenance. It’s a brand-new year (2009 and The Year of the Ox) and we thought a fresh new look will be in order.

You will have noticed that we’re back in a new guise. Hope you like it. It is still being tweaked to make it relevant and useful so if you have any feedback and comments, feel free to Contact Us.

On the old website, we featured Rugby Sevens quite a lot and for a very good reason: Hong Kong hosts the biggest Sevens Tournament on the International Rugby Board (IRB) Sevens World Series. For this reason, we have started a sister-website to deal with everything Sevens, and in particular the Springbok Sevens Team. You can find it on: BlitzBokke.com

Lastly, this new website format allows you, the reader to interact with what is served to you in terms of articles/posts. Simply click on the Reply or Comments Tab at the bottom of each article and you too can have you say.
Please do that and help make this website a useful resource to all of the South African living in the SAR.

See you around on Howzit HongKong!

PS.
The ‘old’ Howzit HongKong! is still available if you are looking for articles posted before the December Festive Season. You can find it here:

www.howzit-hongkong.com/homepage2.html

Here you can find the links to the Sevens Pages, etc.

These pages will remain available until we’ve ‘absorbed’ them in the ‘new’ Howzit Hong Kong!