Ok, so I’m a media guy (more than 15 years of building media companies in Asia), but over the last four years, I’ve devoted myself to real estate media, particularly in building RightSite.asia — China’s first online platform for industrial real estate.  However, after these four years of researching China’s real estate markets and gathering data on industrial and commercial property, I find that my job revolves as much around being a real estate guy as in being a media guy.

So when I started this blog, I said that Mingtiandi is all about

• Building a collaborative community for folks in China’s media industry
• Sharing the experience of launching a media venture in China
• Fishing for hints on how my company could be built better
• Keeping in touch with all of you
• Giving me a chance to upload some fun pictures

In describing myself, I said that Michael Cole is all about

• Starting new media ventures
• Business in Asia
• Adapting print media principles to work in an online world
• Making international media practices function in Asian environments

Now I guess that this blog, RightSite, and myself are all works in progress. But if I can contribute to the China real estate conversation in a meaningful way, then I’m a happy guy.