iBlog: The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit

Our big thanks to Vibal Foundation for signing up as a gold sponsor for iBlog6.

About the company:

Vibal Foundation is the non-profit philanthropic arm of Vibal Publishing House, Inc. The Foundation fosters the development of knowledge, nurtures individual creativity, empowers communities, and provides knowledge to the public, primarily through support for digital media. The Foundation was established by Esther A. Vibal, president of VPHI, as a means to undertake various educational, social, and cultural programs that will improve the quality of life of Filipinos, especially the youth. The Foundation is committed to uphold the tradition of excellence which Hilarion P. Vibal, co-founder of VPHI, established throughout his lifetime. He won a scholarship to the University of the Philippines and became one of the first English-writing journalists. Eventually, he co-founded a publishing house which became a major force in education. “Local boy makes good and so should others,” he believed.

The Foundation was created to fulfill his philanthropic vision. Realizing that people are the real wealth of a nation, Vibal willed that the Foundation should help create an environment where people can enjoy long and creative lives. He realized that when people set their own goals, develop their own approaches, and make their own decisions, human creativity and local problem-solving skills are enabled, and the resulting development is more likely to be self-sustaining. It was Mr. Vibal’s dream—and remains the Foundation’s goal—to empower communities and to bring improved opportunities to all.

Vision and Mission

Knowledge and creativity are central to the richness of people’s lives and to the progress of societies. As change in our communities becomes more constant and as ideas, technologies and people move more rapidly, there is a profound desire to better understand the world, to connect more deeply with others, to come to terms with multiple and conflicting values and to find more meaningful ways to participate fully as citizens. It is the vision of Vibal Foundation to bring about positive changes in the lives of Filipinos everywhere through increased access to quality education. We work to support the perpetual human search for knowledge, meaning and understanding.

Key Operational Themes

• The Foundation stresses the need to develop human capabilities as well as how those capabilities are used.
• People who can participate freely in socio-economic decision-making can work creatively for development.
• Sustainable development means less dependence on debt of any kind and more reliance on local resources and talents.
• Communities must be empowered to become change makers and solve their own problems through the organizations they devise. Private organizations are increasingly being called upon to deliver services and provide benefits to people at the community level.
• Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have proven their effectiveness in enabling people to help themselves.

The Foundation runs and maintains four websites:

Filipiniana.net (http://www.filipiniana.net) is a digital library of primary materials on Philippine history, science, culture and scholarly articles.
WikiPilipinas (http://www.wikipilipinas.org) is an online encyclopedia of Philippine content.
Philippine Online Chronicles (http://www.thepoc.net) is an aggregator of Philippine news
E-turo (http://www.e-turo.org) is a repository of free educational materials for Filipino teachers and students.

Congratulations to Janina Refran for winning our iBlog logo design contest. Please expect the organizers to get in touch with you for proper prize claim.

Our sincerest thanks to everyone who joined!

iBlog6: The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit will be on April 16 and 17, 2010 at the Malcolm Theater, UP College of Law, UP Diliman, Quezon City from 8 am to 5 pm.

Note that the first 250 registered participants to come early (on or before 9 am) will be given food stub and participant kit. Afterwards, remaining food stubs and participant kits shall be given to early walk-ins.

iBlog6 will be two days this year. The first day (April 16) is targeted for businesses and entrepreneurs wanting to understand how to tap blogs as a medium to promote their products and services. The second day (April 17) is meant to everyone interested about blogging. REGISTER NOW!

Day 1 (April 16, 2010)

9:00 – 9:15 Opening Ceremonies (National Anthem, Welcome Remarks by JJ Disini)

9:15 – 9:35 Blogging for Business: Tapping Bloggers to Generate Buzz (Janette Toral)
9:50 to 10:10 Advertising in Blogs (Abe Olandres)

10:25 – 10:50 BREAK

10:50 – 11:10 SPONSOR talk (Ivy Jean Vibar)
11:25 – 11:45 SEO & Blogging to Promote Your Business (Francis Gary Viray)

12:00 – 1:30 LUNCH / NETWORKING

1:30 – 1:50 Measuring Blog Buzz (Carlo Ople)
2:05 – 2:25 Legal Concerns in Blogging for Business (Emerson Bañez)

2:40 – 3:00 BREAK

3:00 – 3:20 Blogger and Advertiser: What is the Win-Win Relationship? (Diana Paterno)
3:35 – 3:50 Online Attraction Marketing (Manuel Viloria)

4:05 RAFFLE and GROUP PICTURE

Day 2 (April 17, 2010)

8:45 Opening Ceremonies (National Anthem & Welcome)
9:00 – 9:20 Blogging 101 (Hannah Villasis)
9:35 – 9:55 Video Blogging 101 (Vince Golangco)
10:10 – 10:30 Photo Blogging 101 (Juned Sonido)

10:45 – 11:00 BREAK

11:00 – 11:20 Blog Policies (Emerson Bañez)

11:35 – 11:55 Blog on Mobile (Racquel R. Cagurangan)

12:10 – 1:20 LUNCH & NETWORKING

1:20 – 1:30 Performance (UP Concert Chorus)

1:30 – 2:15 Political, Online Commentary, Social Media, & Election Blogging 2010 (Marck Ronald Rimorin and Noemi Dado)
2:30 – 2:50 Launching Successful Blog Contests (Jinoe Gavan)

3:05 – 3:20 BREAK

3:20 – 3:40 Impact of Blogging to the Community (Joseph Gonzales)
3:55 – 4:15 SEO: A Must for Making Money Online (Marhgil Macuha)

4:30 RAFFLE, iBlog Video Contest Winner Announcement, & GROUP PHOTO

Emcees: Flowell Galindez and Atty. Michelle Dy (UP-ISP)

REGISTER NOW! See you folks at iBlog6!

Monitor discussions about iBlog6 (#iblog6).

The University of the Philippines College of Law Internet and Society Program (UP Law-ISP) will be hosting iBLOG 6: The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit—an open event for the Pinoy blogging community.

For five years now, the UP Law-ISP has been hosting successful Philippine Blogging Summits so that these events become highly-anticipated interaction venues, where famous Pinoy bloggers give informative talks and more than 300 bloggers attend.

The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit will be held on April 16 and 17, 2010, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., at the Malcolm Theater, Malcolm Hall, College of Law, U.P. Diliman Campus, Quezon City.

UP Law-ISP is extending a special low cost opportunity for you and your company to support this major event for the Philippine blogging community, and increase your visibility through this one of a kind event. The packages are hereby enclosed.

We encourage interested sponsors to sign up as soon as possible. Please feel free to contact Atty. Michelle San Buenaventura-Dy or Ms. Elen Arzadon at 9270368.

SPONSORSHIP PACKAGES

As iBLOG6 is a non-profit event, all fees would be requested to be made payable to our event suppliers who shall in turn issue the corresponding official receipts.

GOLD SPONSOR PACKAGE (Php 55,000.00) – 2 slots only

• Keynote address during the morning or afternoon session
• 2 Table spaces
• 2 Streamers posted at the event
• Collateral material included in the participants’ kit
• Logo inclusion in streamers and posters

SILVER SPONSOR PACKAGE (Php 30,000.00) – 2 slots only

• 1 Table space
• 1 streamer posted at the event
• Collateral material included in the participants’ kit
• Logo inclusion in streamers and posters

PATRON PACKAGE (Php 10,000.00)

• Collateral material included in the participants’ kit
• Logo inclusion in streamers and posters

We encourage interested sponsor to sign up as soon as possible. You may sign up by sending through email the following details to Elen Arzadon (eleanor.valdecanas@up.edu.ph). Please feel free to contact Atty. Michelle San Buenaventura-Dy or Ms. Elen Arzadon at 9270368.

• Company: ___________________________________________________________
• Type of Sponsorship Package interested in: (Gold Sponsor Package, Silver Sponsor Package, Patron Package)
• Name of Contact Person: __________________________________________________________
• Email Address: _________________________________________________
• Phone Numbers: _________________________________________________

An invoice will be issued to you/your company for the amount of your sponsorship package.

We thank everyone who submitted topics and speaker proposals for iBlog6. The topics received were very good and decided to accept them. We shall be finalizing the agenda soon and get in touch with the speakers concerned.

Thank you for the support.

The iBlog organizers are proud to launch the iBlog video contest and encourages all bloggers to join. This contest is organized as a means to celebrate how blogs and the bloggers behind it are:

• Changing lives - their own and/or of those around them;
• The way blogs allow them to communicate their ideas and thoughts;
• The way establishments, whether profit or non-profit, use blogs and bloggers to reach out;
• and many more..

Here are the mechanics:

1. Contest is open to all Filipinos, 18 years and old above.
2. The video should be not be less than 30 seconds short or more than 10 minutes long. It should capture what blogging means to you, or highlight how blogging has changed your life, helped you earn, promote a project or cause, or some other similar theme.
3. Mandatory components:
   - a video or image snippet of iBlog website or photo or video snippet of a past iBlog event in the video.
   - at the end of the video, state that:
   This video is an entry to the iBlog video contest (http://www.iblogph.org)
   
4. Deadline for submission of entries is 5:00 p.m. of March 7, 2010 April 9, 2010. All entries will be sent via CD or DVD (in a format that allows it to be uploaded via YouTube and Facebook) along with the entry form and mailed or delivered to:
   
   Institute of Government and Law Reform
   c/o Atty. Michelle San Buenaventura-Dy
   U.P. Law Center
   Rm. 106, 1st Floor Bocobo Hall, Diliman, Quezon City
   1101

After the deadline for submission of entries, a list of all eligible entries received will be posted and acknowledged in one blog post.

All participants joining shall also attest to the following:

• Images, royalty-free music, and video footages used in the entry were taken by the contest participant or permission was granted for use by its owners. Proof of all licenses must be submitted when required. Proper credit must be given at the end of the video.
• The contest entry has never been used for any other competition.
• The contest entry was not posted online, for public viewing, prior to and during the contest proper.
• You are giving iBlog organizers the permission to upload your entry in its various websites.
• The act of joining the contest is express permission for the iBlog organizers  to upload your entry in its various websites and use the video for promotional purposes.

Criteria for judging

• Concept – 30%
• Visual artistry – 20%
• Editing and post production – 20%
• Production value – 20%
• Overall impact – 10%

Our panel of judges, to be led by Atty. JJ Disini, shall be posted on this website not later than March 7 April 9.

• The judges’ decision will be final. No protests or requests for reconsideration will be entertained.
• iBlog organizers reserve the right not to select a winner if, in its opinion, no suitable entries are received.
• iBlog organizers reserve the right to disqualify any entry at its sole discretion. No protests or requests for reconsideration will be entertained.

Winner Announcement and Prize:

• The winner will be announced on April 17 during the iBlog event.
• The winner will receive an iPod 8GB Nano.
• Acceptance of the prize constitutes permission for iBlog organizers to publicize and otherwise identify the winner name for publicity purposes.

We will be posting more details to further clarify the information stated here. You can also email iblogvideocontest@gmail.com for any inquiries.

We hope you can join!

For our 6th year, we thought of giving our iBlog logo a new look. Instead of hiring a designer for this purpose, we would like to take this opportunity to invite the blogging community to submit their own iBlog logo design. The winning entry shall become the official logo of iBlog, to be used in iBlog’s website, in official communications whether online or in print, on iBlog items and merchandise, and for other purposes as the organizers of iBlog may deem fit.

Mechanics:

• The contest is open to Filipino individuals, 18 years and old above.
• The logo design may or may not have the words “iBlog.” Ideally, it should represent what iBlog is about, which is developing and promoting the growth of blogging in the Philippines.
• The entries must be submitted in 2 files, with the first file as a scalable vector graphic in EPS format and the second file as a JPG.
• Deadline for submission of entries is 5:00 p.m. of February 15, 2010. All entries should be sent via CD or DVD along with the entry form and mailed or delivered to:
  Institute of Government and Law Reform
  c/o Atty. Michelle San Buenaventura-Dy
  U.P. Law Center
  Rm. 106, 1st Floor Bocobo Hall, Diliman, Quezon City
  1101

After the deadline for submission of entries, a list of all eligible entries received will be posted and acknowledged in one blog post.

All participants joining attest that:

• The logo entry has never been entered in any other competition, is not in any way similar to existing logos or other registered marks or otherwise does not constitute copyright or trademark infringement.
• The contest entry has never been posted online, for public viewing, prior to and during the contest proper.
• The act of joining the contest is express consent for the iBlog organizers to use your logo and post the same in its various websites.

Criteria for judging:

• Flexibility
  Resizes easily,looks good in color as well as black and white, and suitable for high quality printing
• Creativity
• Representation of what iBlog is about
• Overall impression

Our panel of judges, to be led by Atty. JJ Disini, shall be posted on this website not later than February 15.

• The judges’ decision will be final. No protests or requests for reconsideration will be entertained.
• iBlog organizers reserve the right not to select a winner if, in its opinion, no suitable entries are received.
• iBlog organizers reserve the right to disqualify any entry at its sole discretion. No protests or requests for reconsideration will be entertained..

Winner Announcement and Prize:

• The winner will be announced on or before February 28 in this site.
• The winner will receive an iPod 8GB Nano.
• The winner will be required to sign a deed of assignment assigning all ownership rights of the logo to UP-ISP (or its appointed body).
• Acceptance of the prize constitutes permission for iBlog organizers to publicize and otherwise identify the winner name for publicity purposes.

We will be posting more details to further clarify the information stated here. You can also email ibloglogodesigncontest@gmail.com for any inquiries.

We hope you can join!

Hello everyone. We are now gearing up for iBlog6: the 6th Philippine Blogging Summit. In this regard, we would like to invite interested speakers to submit their names for consideration as a resource person for iBlog6 and/or submit a topic proposal for consideration on or before January 31, 2010.

iBlog6 is targeted to take place on April 16 and 17. The first day will focus on Blogging for Business (entrepreneurs, corporations, non-government organizations, and similar entities). We would be pleased to receive proposals on topics that can help businesses better understand how they can tap blogs as a marketing and promotional tool, and how to work effectively with bloggers to achieve that purpose (i.e. through events, contests, advertising, and the like).

The second day will focus on topics of interest for Bloggers in general, such as introduction to blogging, use of photos and videos, blogging policies, and blog promotion. We are also interested in discussing political blogging, election coverage, and building offline blogging communities.

Submit your name and topic proposal on or before January 31. The approved topics and final agenda as well as speakers for summit will be posted on the 1st week of February.

Thank you.

In collaboration with Summit Media, we will be having an iBlogMini@CEL this November 15, 2009 Sunday from 1 to 5 pm during the Consumer Electronics Live (CEL) trade show happening at World Trade Center, Gil Puyat Avenue, Pasay City.

Targeted at blogging newbies, the following are the topics and speakers for the upcoming event:

1:00 – 1:15 Welcome Remarks (JJ Disini – http://disini.i.ph)
1:20 – 1:40 Blogging 101 (Micaela Rodriguez – http://www.micamyx.com)
1:50 – 2:10 Photo/Video Blogging 101 (Aileen Apolo – http://aileenapolo.blogspot.com)
2:20 – 2:40 Mobile Blogging 101 (Janette Toral – http://www.bloggingfromhome.com)
2:50 – 3:10: Blog Promotion & Traffic Generation Strategies 101 (Noemi Lardizabal Dado – http://www.aboutmyrecovery.com)
3:20 – 3:40 Blogging to the Next Level (Anton Diaz – http://www.ourawesomeplanet.com)
3:40 – onwards Raffle and group picture

Host / Moderator: Janette Toral – http://www.bloggingfromhome.com

As always, this event is for free and we hope to meet blogging newbies there!

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