iBlog7 Philippine Blogging Summit: a first encounter

ReCap of iBlog7 Philippine Blogging Summit
UP Diliman, Philippines

UP Diliman, April 2011. iBlog is one the first blogging enrichment DeiVille have attended. It’s a free 2-day programme open to all newbies and professionals who want to learn the basics of blogging.   Thanks to Teacher Ia Adam-Lim & Teacher Jo Bonsol that they firmly insist on attending iBlog7 Philippine Blogging Summit after all we are new to the blogging industry, and in most cases feeding y0ur mind with something useful in the future.

Day 1
The first day focuses on the business side of blogging —  on how to incorporate basic to advanced methods of applying entrepreneurship into your website.

Some interesting topic were:

Jayson Biadog‘s Organizing Online Contests – He gave views & tips about how an online promos could be successful based on his experiences.
Regnard Raquedan‘s Be the Blogging & Social Media Champion in your Company – inclined on the tools and media know-how.
Howie Severino‘s Blogging in the Time of Facebook – the transformation of his Sidetrip blogs to photo-brief-interaction blogs using Facebook as medium.
Carlo Ople‘s 10 Power Blogging Tips, an advanced blogging strategy – tips given appears to be feasible, I thank him for sharing this information. His presentation was straightforward, lively and built a connection with his audience.

Ginger Arboleda‘s Offline Marketing for your blog – how to market offline, mostly the basics of marketing. Includes socialization, being creative and promotional stuff.
EJ Arboleda‘s Earning from Blogging – where most of the bloggers dream to achieve on the sideline. He set examples from Techcrunch [Michael Arrington], Masahable [Pete Cashmore] & Perez Hilton [Mario Lavandeira].
Ruben Licera‘s Public Relations Success through Effective Social Media Management – how important the role of a PR tied-up to the social media of the present time.
Janette Toral’s Are we ready for a National Bloggers Association or Professional Bloggers Association? – In time NBA or PBA will soon be acted on, the need for this kind of organization I think is beneficial to all: pro & amateur blogging, business blogs, blog consultants, bloggers who make money from their blogs directly, blog tools/services providers, where blogging has become a media. Highlight of the talk was the Big Bad Blogger, concerning as a whole: the PR, the blogger, the blogging standards & the blog advertising guidelines.

And it raises a wide array of debatable issues, one thing is for sure, the blogging community is heading forward.

Day1 Guest Speakers L-R clockwise: Jayson Biadog, Regnarg Raquedan, Howie Severino & Carlo Ople

Day 2
The second day is all about blogging! Day started on a serious side of Roby Alampay‘s TV5 web portal Interaksyon.com – a promising site, highly interactive-base [thus the name suggests]. The portal was purposely tried to avoid branding it as TV5.com or TV5news mainly to adapt to the fast forward phase of the new media. Alampay’s vision is to create a platform for influential bloggers, to explore boundaries of new media art. He felt the need to put up a community of bloggers that could share limitless perception and where readers can interact as well.

Jinkee Umali & Jonel Uy‘s Blogging 101 – the start-up guidelines on setting up a blog. Catered for newbies and for those interested to go on blogging.

Adrian Jeric Pena‘s Podcasting 101 – mostly audio driven, I never tried podcasting but the way he presented it, I may try it some time. Found out that Jeric was just 19 years old.
Roy Dela Cruz‘ Dealing with Writer’s Block – full of wits & laughs.
Sonnie Santos & Grace Nicolas‘ Blogging for Advocacy – Santos discusses the ABC’s of an advocacy blog, while Nicolas on the empowerment & influence of blogging. I admire these people, I really hope I/we could share something for their public & humanitarian campaigns. It made me think, how can we help in our own little way.
Mon Macutay‘s Your Blog & Facebook – emphasizes on how powerful Facebook is here in the Philippines. The way users actively participate can help boost up your site.
Fritz Villafuerte‘s Blog Traffic without SEO – his suggestions on alternative sources of building traffic through people network, community and conversation armed with informative content can boost your traffic on a high-scale, which he has proven very useful to our market.
Michael Rubio‘s Building a Discussion Community – his troll rendition is applicable online and in real-life scenarios.

Day2 Guest Speakers L-R clockwise: Roby Alampay, Jinkee Umali, Jonel Uy & Jeric Pena

Day2 Guest Speakers L-R clockwise: Roy Dela Cruz, Sonnie Santos, Mon Macutay & Frita Villafuerte

Bloggers, lecturers & participants were able to mingle and chat, and foodies was never a problem, they were able to serve full meals from morning until afternoon courtesy of their generous sponsors: GMA7 Kapuso, TV5, Binalot, Samsung, Vibal Publishing and others groups.

The venue was filled with freebies and raffle prizes, I got a blue iBlog shirt on Day 1. The Binalot mascot I thought got the post photo opps.  Overall, bloggers had a wonderful time filled with laughs and smart-tips from fellow bloggers/lecturers.

Meet & Greet: Jo Bonsol of jobonsol.com with a member of UP Concert Choir, Vance Madrid of purple plum fairy, an awesome Bruno Mars?, Carlo Ople of TV5 and New Media Philippines, Noria Adam-Lim of Iaadamlim.blogspot.com & Momo Adam of momoholic

Meet & Greet: Jonel Uy of nomnom club & bloggers manila, Fedhz Aquino of fedhz.com, Ruby Cabaret of pinay mommy online & Manuel Viloria of viloria.net

I won an the “iBlog Tee” & a freebie from ManilaReviews.com

Congrats to Ms. Janette Toral and her group for organizing iBlog: The 7th Philippine Blogging Summit.
See you on iBlog8!

iBlog7
April 1 & 2 2011
Malcolm Theater
U.P. College of Law, Diliman, Quezon City

Updated: May 2018

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