iBlog: The 7th Philippine Blogging Summit

iBlog7: The 7th Philippine Blogging Summit will be on April 1 and 2, 2011 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.

iBlog7 is a 2-day event. The first day (April 1) 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 2) is meant to everyone interested about blogging. REGISTER NOW!

Day 1 (April 1, 2011)

9:00 – 9:15 Welcome
9:15 – 9:35 Blogger Etiquette: How to be a Blogger with Integrity (Earth Rullan)
9:45 – 10:05 Public Relations Success through Effective Social Media Management (Ruben Licera Jr.)

BREAK

10:45 – 10:55 Be the Blogging and Social Media Champion in your Company (Regnard Raquedan)
11:05 – 11:25 Blog Traffic 102 (Melvin Dichoso)
11:35 – 11:55 Organizing Online Contest (Jayson Biadog and another resource person)

BREAK

1:30 – 2:00 Sponsor Keynote: Howie Severino, GMA News Online
2:15 – 2:35 Offline Marketing for your Blog (Ginger Arboleda)
2:45 – 3:05 Ten Power Blogging Advance Tips (Carlo Ople)

BREAK

3:45 – 4:05 Earning from Blogging (EJ Arboleda)
4:15 – 4:25 Are we ready for a National Bloggers Association or Professional Bloggers Association? (Janette Toral)

Raffle, Group Picture

Day 2 (April 2, 2011)

9:00 – 9:15 Welcome
9:15 – 9:35 Sponsor Keynote: Roby Alampay, Interaksyon TV5
9:45 – 10:15 Blogging 101 (Jonel Uy & Jinkee Umali)

BREAK

11:00 – 11:20 Podcasting 101 (Adrian Jeric Peña)
11:30 – 11:50 Dealing with Writer’s Block (Roy Dela Cruz)

BREAK

1:00 – 1:15 Intermission Performance UP Choral
1:15 – 2:00 Blogging for Advocacy (Sonnie Santos, Grace Nicolas, Ivan Henares)
2:15 – 2:35 Blog Traffic without SEO (Fitz Villafuerte)

BREAK

3:15 – 3:35 Your Blog and Facebook (Mon Macutay)
3:45 – 4:05 Building a Discussion Community (Michael Rubio)
4:15 – 4:35 Blogging, Social Networks, Online Relationships as Support System (Ria Tirazona)

Raffle, Group Picture

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

REGISTER NOW! See you folks at iBlog7!

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P.S. iBlog7 is currently looking for event sponsors.

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The University of the Philippines College of Law Internet and Society Program (UP Law-ISP) will be hosting iBLOG 7: The 7th Philippine Blogging Summit—an open event for the Pinoy blogging community.

For the past six years, 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 7th Philippine Blogging Summit will be held on April 1 and 2, 2011, 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 Alona Rago, Lou Tirol, or Elen Arzadon at 9270368.

SPONSORSHIP PACKAGES

As iBLOG7 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 60,000.00) – 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 35,000.00) – 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 15,000.00)

• 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 (eleanorarzadon@gmail.com). Please feel free to contact Alona Rago, Lou Tirol, or 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.

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.