Finding the Right Topic to Write in My Blog

Since I started blogging again a few months back, I am really having a hard time finding the right topic to write in my blog. If you had the chance to follow my previous blog, I mainly wrote about four things:

Issues related to the operations of an internet cafe business
The initiatives and projects of the Internet Cafe Association of Imus, Inc. ICAII was a professional organization that was composed of owners or operators of internet cafes in Imus, Cavite. We had a lot of projects and initiatives that caught the attention of other internet cafe associations, educational institutions and government agencies.
ICAII provided me with the opportunity to get in touch with the different internet cafe associations all over the Philippines. I was later hired by G.ho.st (Global Hosted Operating System), a technology company based in Israel to be their country representative to market their G.ho.st Virtual Desktop in the Philippines. As early as 2008 we were already marketing cloud computing in the Philippines.
Later on I wrote about the development of a national advocacy organization that would represent the interest of the internet cafe owners and operators in the Philippines. Along side of it would be the development of a marketing and selling organization that in national in terms of scope in the form of a multi-purpose cooperative.

All of this was made possible since I was a practicing internet cafe owner at the time. The topics were mainly based on my experiences and hopes for the internet cafe business. I had to stop about writing about the internet cafe business when I decided to close my shop and got employed in a technology company as part of their marketing and sales team. I felt that I could no longer write about the internet cafe industry since I was already not part of it and have no longer the authority since I am not updated to what is happening to the industry as a whole.

After almost three long years, I am back. I left the corporate life and went back to operating my own business again. A friend of mine who owns an internet cafe would be migrating soon to Canada and we came up with an agreement for me to lease some of his computers so that I could set up again my own internet cafe. I am an internet cafe operator and owner once again and would starting again to write about the internet cafe industry.

God is truly Good.

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