iBlog: The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit

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.

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.

Awesome news for everyone! Anton Diaz will be one of the speakers on iBlog5! Anyone excited? I sure am! Updated schedule will follow soon.

For those who have not yet registered, what are you waiting for, REGISTER NOW! The event is FREE. So register and also spread the word about iBlog5!

iBlog3: the 3rd Philippine Blogging Summit will be held at the School of Economics Auditorium, in UP Diliman, Quezon City this April 13 and 14, 2007. This event is organized by the University of the Philippines – Internet Society Program.

We’d like to thank our major sponsor IPVG and Globe for supporting this event.

Registration, which will reserve your seats, stuff and schwag, and get you into our announcements mailing list, is now open.

We’ve got a full program of sessions and activities massive enough to cover two days (see listing below). And of course iBlog 3 is still FREE in the beer sense, as long as we can help it, free in the speech sense.

Thank you also to minor sponsors Google and Yehey, webcast/podcast sponsor eRadioPortal.com, and name badge sponsor Allfox Computer Center for supporting this event.

iBlog3 Program

April 13, 2007

Morning: Newbies track

9:00-9:15 Opening (National Anthem, Prayer)
9:15 – 9:30 Keynote and Welcome Remarks (Atty. JJ Disini, UP-ISP)

9:30-10:00 Blogging for Newbies (Chris Haravata)
10:00 – 10:20 Do’s and Don’ts of Personal Blogging (Lauren Dado)

10-20 – 10:50 Break

10:50 – 11: 15 Personal Blogging Success Story (Noemi Lardizabal Dado)
11:15 – 11:35 Unlocking your creative blogging potential (Marcelle Fabie)
11:35 – 12:00 What every business person should know about blogging (Arelle Valla)

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:20 – 1:40 Building Communities: One Blog at a time. The E-Games Experience (Jaime Enrique Y. Gonzalez, CEO, IPVG)

Art & Literary Track
1:40 – 2:10 Blogging as alternative publishing for comic book creators (Jonas Diego)
2:10 -2:30 Literary Blogging Experience, Observations, and Trends (Dean Alfar)

2:30 – 3:00 Break

Legal Track
3:00 – 3:30 Blogging and Freedom of Expression in ASEAN (Roby Alampay, SEAPA)
3:30 – 4:00 Bloggers Code of Ethics (Emerson Banez)
4:00 – 4:30 Blogging and Copyright Law (Atty. Jaime Soriano)

4:30 – 6:00 Raffle, Networking

April 14, 2007

Blogging for Newbies
9:00 – 9:20 Abraham Olandres: Blogging Success Story (Philippines’ Most Read Blogger)
9:20 – 9:40 Photoblogging Success Story (Anton Diaz)
9:40 – 10:00 Philippine Politics and the Blogosphere (Manuel L. Quezon III)

10:00 to 10:30 Break

Blogging Trends Track
10:30 to 10:50 Podcasting/Videocasting Growth Trends (Wilson Chua of eRadioPortal.)
10:50 to 11:10 Blogging / Web Marketing Trends (Aileen Apolo of Google.)
11:10 to 11:30 The New Prosumer (Norman Agatep of Euro 4D.)

11:30 to 12:00 Panel Discussion (Moderated by Janette Toral)

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 to 1:15 Sponsor Talk by Globe

Blogging and Journalism Track
1:15 – 1:40 Blogging and Investigative Journalism (Alecks Pabico of PCIJ)
1:40 – 2:00 Blogging as Mainstream Media (Angelo Racoma of the Blog Herald)
2:00 – 2:20 TV Journalism and Blogging (Malou Mangahas of GMA Network)
2:20- 240 Panel Discussion (Moderated by Rachel Khan)

2:40 – 3:00 Break

Professional Blogging Track

3:00 – 3:30 Blogging for advancing one’s career (Marc Hil Macalua)
3:30 – 4:00 Professional blogging (Jayvee Fernandez)
4:00 – 4:30 Increasing blog popularity (Gail Dela Cruz – Villanueva)

4:30 – 5:00 Raffle, group picture, networking

Don’t forget to register in this FREE event now!

Courtesy of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, a three-episode podcast featuring highlights from speeches and interviews during the summit. Two of three parts are already online:

Part One Рfeat. Rebecca MacKinnon, Erwin Olivia, Manuel Quezon III, Peter Lavi̱a.

Part Two – feat. Ronald Meinardus, Manuel Villoria, Brian Ligsay

Part Three – feat. Mike Abundo, Abe Olandres, Angelo Racoma

The long wait is over! iBlog2: The 2nd Philippine Blogging Summit shall be on Tuesday, April 18 at the U.P. College of Law, U.P. Diliman, Quezon City from 9 am to 5 pm. Same as last year, this event is FREE!

Here’s our program for this year’s event:

9:00 to 10:00
Keynote Message
by Rebecca MacKinnon, Global Voices

Trends and Technology for Filipino Bloggers
By Emil Avancena, DotPH

Snacks

Parallel Tracks: Breakout sessions (2 Rooms)

10:30 – 12:00

Track 1: Political Blogging Panel
Panel Moderator: Atty. Fred Pamaos

Blogs and the battle for ideas: personalities and issues
by Manuel L. Quezon III
(According to MLQ3, “We have to address how people are concerned over how nasty the political debate is getting.”)

Blogging and Participatory Governance
by Davao City Councilor Peter Laviña

Track 2: Personal Blogging Panel
Panel Moderator: Noemi Lardizabal-Dado

Blogging for mere mortals
By Joel Yuvienco

Making your blog funny and humorous
by Anton De Leon

Shameless Self-Promotion: How to Be Heard in a Referral World
by Mike Abundo

12:00 LUNCH BREAK

1: 00 Keynote
Blogging and Podcasting as Tools for Political Education
By Dr. Ronald Meinardus, Friedrich Naumann Foundation

Raffle

Breakout Sessions

1:30 – 3:00
Track 3: Legal Blogging Panel
Panel Moderator: Atty. Noel Oliver Punzalan

Speak No Evil?: Libel for Bloggers
by Atty. Marvin Aceron

Look Before You Link: Avoiding Plagiarism, Copyright Infringement and Other Pitfalls
by Atty. Bong Dizon

Track 4: Art & Literary Blogging Panel
Panel Moderator: Lionel Gonzaga

Write here, Write now: The Author as a Blogger
by Dean Alfar

Comic Books and Blogging
by Jonas Diego

Blogs as Teaching Tools
By Zarah Gagatiga

BREAK

3:30 – 5:00
Track 5: Professional Blogging Panel
Panel Moderator: Atty. Ma. Elena Cardinez

Problogging: Professional Blogging and Blog Monetization
by Abe Olandres

Blogging as a Profession: From Full-Time Employee to Full Time Blogger
by J Angelo Racoma

Putting Search Engines to Work for your Blog
by Marc Hil Macalua

Tracking Blog Performance
by Charo Nuguid

Track 6: Media Blogging & Podcasting Panel
Panel Moderator: Ernesto Sonido Jr.

Blogging from a journalist’s point of view
by Ellen Tordesillas

Blogs as source for story leads
by Erwin Oliva

How to create, promote, and monetize podcasts
by Manuel Viloria

Use of Podcasting in Promoting Advocacy and Products
by Pocholo Gonzales and Brian Ligsay

CLOSING

5:00 Closing remarks, raffle, group picture taking

All speakers are requested to refrain from product or service pitches.

See you folks at iBlog2: The 2nd Philippine Blogging Summit!

Cheers!
- Janette Toral

Audio from last Thursday’s iBlog Mini – Gloriagate Blogging, are now available for download (in compressed WAV format)

Bloggers Introduction
Dean Raul Pangalangan – Opening Remarks
Atty. JJ Disini – Political Blogging
Open Forum on Political Blogging
Alecks Pabico – Blogging in a Time of Crisis
Manuel L. Quezon III – Blogging Gloriagate: A Personal Journey
Open Forum

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