How we can all help ourselves by helping NihonHacks - an exclusive interview with NihonHacks.com

On November 25, 2007 in Interviews, bloggers

If you are a blogger and you were here for yesterday’s Nihonhacks post you either dropped everything and blogrolled NihonHacks.com or lost my respect forever

If you fall into that second group you might be able to redeem yourself today because, as promised, we are going to find out how you can help NihonHacks help foreigners.

But first a really cute baby picture!

Ahhh. Little Noah is so cute!

Okay. Focus. We have foreigners to help. Imagine having access to the collective wisdom and life tips of every foreigner in Japan. Wouldn’t that be awesome?! It is possible and you can help (yourself). Here’s how:

Daily J: Who is your site perfect for and how can they get the most from it?

Thomas: The site is aimed at foreigners in Japan, specifically English-speaking foreigners in Japan (though I’m looking into ways to make the site more accessible to non-English speakers). I think the site is perfect for the foreigners that rotate in and out of Japan: exchange students, short term (1-5 years) language teachers, temporary workers. I think the best way to get the most benefit from the site is to subscribe to the RSS feed ( http://feeds.feedburner.com/NihonHacks), read and post comments, and send in tips of your own. A lot of readers submit related tips in the comments, so you might miss some good ideas if you don’t read them.

Daily J: How can interested people best interact with the site and contribute to “hacking Japan”?

Thomas: Write comments! If you have a good tip related to a post, write a comment and share it with everyone else. You can also submit tips to hacks@nihonhacks.com. I often make posts that are just quotes of tips that have been sent in to me. If you have something that you think would be helpful to other foreigners in Japan, send it in!

Another way to help is to spread the word. Nihon Hacks is still new. We launched on September 1st. It’s only 7 days older than my newborn boy. If you like the site, tell your friends and colleagues about it. If you like an article, Stumble it or submit it to some other social bookmarking site.

So there you have it, friends: go forth to NihonHacks.com, comment, submit tips, and spread the word! Let’s put our heads together and make things better for one another and all future foreigners waiting to brave Japan!

And come back tomorrow to hear more about Thomas, how he got started with NihonHacks, and why he loves it.

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