Note that the first 300 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.

iBlog8 is a 2-day FREE event. The first day (May 25) is targeted for bloggers, marketers, businesses and entrepreneurs wanting to understand how to tap blogs as a medium to promote their products and services. Also as a means to generate income. Day 1 also tackles advance topics on blogging – taking blogs to the next level.

The second day (May 26) is meant to everyone interested about blogging.

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Day 1 AGENDA (May 25)

8:45 Introductions of bloggers in the audience, National Anthem

9:00 – 9:20 Unboxing the true potential of your blog (Carlo Ople)
How to get direct advertisers and investors in your blog. How to turn it into a full fledged online publishing business.

9:30 – 9:50 Creating a Blog Activation Campaign (Mark Joseph Delgado)

Today, blogs and social media networks in the Philippines are not just mere online marketing tools – they already evolved towards becoming effective platforms or springboards in creating activation campaigns for brands. Brand Activation, in the point of view of marketing practitioners, is simply about bringing brands to come to life. Today, blogs (like brands) can come to life too – in both online and offline world. This is achieved through contests, events, promos and other experiential marketing activities.

10:00 – 10:15 BREAK

10:15 – 11:00 SEO and Social Media Marketing Panel

• On Site Optimization 101 (Sean Patrick Si)
• Inbound Marketing – Merging SEO, Social, Content Marketing, Conversion Optimization and Online Branding (Jason Acidre)
• Utilizing Blog Networks for SEO and Social Media Traffic (Kim Tyrone Agapito)

11:20 Keynote Talk: UNILAB

LUNCH

1:00 – 1:20 Blogging, social media and journalism: The use, misuse and abuse of freedom of expression (Danilo Arao)

- Responsibility vs anarchy: Is there such a thing as “borderless” freedom?
- Limited freedom amid absolute control of social media and blogging accounts.
- Dos, don’ts and maybes in blogging and social media.
- Yes-yes and no-nos in blogging and online journalism.

1:30 – 1:50 Social Media and Social Change (Tonyo Cruz)

Social media, especially blogging, play a role in propelling advocacies and causes, whether by individuals or organizations. What the trends and tools in the arsenal of social media that have been and could be used for social change. The age of social also brings about new causes — like #betterinternet, bridging the worsening digital divide and making governments and business more accountable to the public.

2:00 – 2:20 Unwritten Blogging Etiquettes (Gellie Anne Abogado)

Unlike journalism, blogging doesn’t have its own specific code of ethics that is why there would be times when some companies think that bloggers have been becoming abusive of their title as a blogger. Internet is a free space and owning a blog is as simple as 1,2,3. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have the fancy buttons and banners in your blog because once you post a controversial write-up, it will definitely create a stir. Will discuss the importance of researching a topic first before blogging about it, thinking twice before posting that blog post, attending events and why we should blog about it, and what is expected from bloggers.

2:30 – 3:00 Youth and Blogging: The Next Generation Bloggers Are Here (Lloyd Salac)

Fresh perspectives about the youth and their impact on the blogging community and social media. What’s next for the blogging community and social media with youth bloggers.

3:00 – 3:15 BREAK

3:15 – 3:35 Kasali Kayo: Reaching Out to Overseas Filipinos for the 2013 Elections via Social Media (James Jimenez)

This session aims to provide insight on how the COMELEC aims to use social media to prepare overseas voters for the 2013 elections. Furthermore, how can bloggers participate, help out, and monitor election developments.

3:45 – 4:05 Bloggers the new PR community (Boris Joaquin)

Marketers and PR peeps nowadays spend a lot of time, money, energy and creativity to actually put together a plausible and meaningful PR campaign to track bloggers top post and promote. Bloggers did not fall off a turnip truck. If they don’t see the value in the pitch, they won’t post. If they fancy that you’re just asking them to post because you want to vampire bat on their Google juice, then you’re likely to be in a whole lot of #fail and possibly a whole lot of pain. The white-hat link-farm organic SEO pwn effect is only secondary if you are, the entire way along, a total Mensch and have amazing assets, viral-quality video, a great pitch, an accurate target, and a gentle, kind and generous follow-through.

4:15 – 4:35 Financial Planning for Bloggers (Garry Zaldy De Castro)

Each blogger should be equipped with financial education as early as possible. Bloggers can also help spread financial literacy even more.

Raffle of sponsor items, iBlog8 shirts, and group photo shot.

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Day 2 (May 26)

8:45 Introductions of bloggers in the audience, National Anthem

9:00 – 9:20 The Soul of Blogging (Rem Tanauan)

We have been learning about blogging from only one side of the coin: blogging as a marketing and money-making tool to grow one’s business and organization. To balance the equation, we must also explore the other side. The Soul of Blogging focuses on how to tap this deep inspiration to write, share and blog, how to see and unfold those insights, and how to use blogging as a tool not just to connect, but also to share oneself to the other.

9:30 – 9:50 Politics of Blogging (Janette Toral)

Bloggers who decided to take this craft seriously will later on realize that the blogosphere, like any other industry segment, has its own share of politics. This session intends to give practical advise on how to suit up, dodge attacks, and fight back when needed.

10:00 – 10:15 BREAK

10:15 – 11:00 Blog Writing Panel

• Making your blog post work: Inspiring Quotes and Posts (Wendell Glenn Cagape)
• Using Public Narrative In Blogging (Bien Eli Nillos)
• Blog comedy writing for the not-naturally-funny (Marcelle Fabie)

11:20 Keynote Talk: McDonald’s Philippines

LUNCH

1:00 – 1:20 Teaching and Learning through EduBlogging (Noel Feria)

1:30 – 1:50 How to make your blog stand out from the crowd (Victorino Q. Abrugar)

Guide aspiring bloggers on ensuring that their blogs will become competitive amidst the tough competition in the blogosphere. It will have a quick yet intense discussion on building up the foundation of a blogger, which include acquiring the right personal attributes, choosing the right investments, becoming unique and influential, achieving world-class quality and excellence, leveraging SEO and social media marketing, and ensuring consistency.

2:00 – 3:00 Social Media Panel

• Social Media Marketing Shiznit (Carlo Angelo Gonzales)
• Optimizing your Blog thru Social Media. Using Hashtags, tags, and keywords (Jeoffrey Solas)
• Twitter as an ally in learning (Arvin Antonio V. Ortiz)
• Social Media in Business and Advocacy (Grace Bondad Nicolas)

3:15 – 3:30 BREAK

3:30 – 3:50 Social Media Legal Issues (Atty. JJ Disini)

This session aims to answer legal issues that includes:
1. Use of photos with credit but without consent.
2. Use of photos demonstrating proof of work – but is actually owned by others (and used without consent).
3. Can status messages on social media accounts be used for libel cases?
4. What are the legal responsibilities of  companies and individuals who organize online contest and collect data? If data is misused and found out, what can victims do about it?

4:00 – 4:20 Increasing Health Information Access through Blogging (Alvin Cloyd Dakis)

Health Professionals like doctors, nurses and midwives are the front liners in healthcare. They provide health services directly to their clients. But with the advent of “telemedicine” wherein health & medical services can now be accessed online, how are health professionals gearing themselves to include blogging as their means of educating their clients? How is blogging an essential tool in providing accurate and sound health information of health providers to the general public? How can health professionals maintain patient confidentiality & professional ethics especially when they blog about their experiences or even use social media as their tool? How can blogging help in advancing the issues faced by health professionals?

Raffle of sponsor items, iBlog8 shirts, and group photo shot.

DAY 1 & 2 EMCEES / Co-Host are: Flow Galindez and Rod Magaru.

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We are thankful to the following for supporting this event. Major sponsors: UNILAB and McDonald’s Philippines.

Silver sponsors: Villar Foundation, TV5, and iSecure Networks.

Patron sponsors: Proactiv Solutions Philippines, Sulit.com.ph, and Gizmo Pro Computers and Gadgets.

P.S. We are still looking for sponsors.

More info about the organization:

The Villar Foundation

One of Villar Foundation’s earliest programs was ‘Pagtatanim Para Sa Kinabukasan‘, a tree-planting program, to create urban forests in open spaces of subdivisions, residential communities, and schools.

Over the years, its advocacies and beneficiaries have expanded and diversified in order to reach more people and sectors of the society. These include the poor and underprivileged; overseas Filipino workers and their families; the youth; women; the church; the environment among others.

The Las Pinas-Zapote River Rehabilitation Program, launched in 2002, is its flagship program or advocacy. The program has won numerous awards and citations. It was selected by the Dubai International Award and United Nations Human Settlements Programme for Best Practice in 2006 for its outstanding contribution towards improving the living environment. In March 2009, the program won the Oikos Global Case Writing Competition sponsored by OIKOS FOUNDATION Switzerland for the sustainable Livelihood Program developed out of river wastes. In November 2009, the program won the Green Apple Award for Environmental Best Practice in London, UK.

The most recent recognition for the river rehabilitation program is the United Nations Best Water Management Practices Award in Celebration of the Water for Life Decade held in Zaragosa, Spain in March 2011.

The Las Pinas-Zapote River experience showed that for environmental projects to be sustainable, they should have a livelihood component. The Green Social Enterprises that grew organically out of the project are the following:

The Water Hyacinth Weaving Enterprise

The water hyacinths are bright green inedible aquatic plants that ran like carpet in the river. It succeeded in clogging our rivers and made them impassable to any form of water transport industry including our river-cleaning equipment. Through proper technology, we made the water hyacinths as raw materials to our weaving enterprise. We made baskets and other items from the stalks, which inspired the poor people to remove them from the river because they have become the source of their livelihood.

The Coconut Coir and Peat Enterprise

The popularity of the coconut fruits as food in our city account for the tens of thousands of coconut husks that pile up daily in the markets, sidewalks, and in our rivers. Using decorticating machine invented by Dr. Justino Arboleda, an agricultural engineer and dean of one of our universities, we extracted the fiber and peat from the coconut husk. The fibers are used to produce coco coir, a superior and most cost-effective alternative to concrete rip rapping to prevent soil erosion. The coco peat are mixed with kitchen wastes to produce organic fertilizer.

The Handloom Blanket Weaving Enterprise

The coco coir enterprise finances our handloom blanket weaving. The blankets are given away to victims of natural calamities and fire.

The Composting of Kitchen and Garden Wastes

As of today, we produce 60 tons of organic fertilizer per month out of our kitchen and garden wastes. We hope to produce twice as much in the future.

The Pulverizing of Plastic
A machine pulverizes plastic, which we use in turn, as raw materials for manufacturing hollow blocks and pavers.

The Lantern-Making Enterprising

Lantern-making is a three-generation livelihood of Las Pineros, which uses the bamboos planted along the riverbanks as raw materials which we plant under bamboo stewardship program.

For the past seven years, this event has become a highly-anticipated interaction venue where famous and upcoming Pinoy bloggers give informative talks. More than 300 bloggers from all over the country make time to attend it as well.

The 8th Philippine Blogging Summit will be held on May 25 and 26, 2012, 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.

We are extending a special low cost opportunity for your company to support this major event for the Philippine blogging community. Increase your visibility through this one-of-a-kind event.

We encourage interested sponsors to sign up as soon as possible. Please feel free to contact Janette Toral at 0920-9508696.

SPONSORSHIP PACKAGES

As iBLOG8 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) – taken (Thank you UNILAB and McDonald’s Philippines for supporting this event)

• 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 remaining (Thank you The Villar Foundation, TV5, and iSecure Networks for supporting this event.)

• 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) (Thank you Proactiv Solutions Philippines, Sulit.com.ph, Gizmo Pro Computers and Gadgets)

• 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 filling up the form below.

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