iBlog: The 8th Philippine Blogging Summit

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!