My Mindanao Bloggers Summit 3 Experience

Last October 24, bloggers from  different places not only from Mindanao gathered at Pearlmont Inn Cagayan de Oro City to join the 3rd Mindanao Bloggers Summit. With the theme “Mindanao Bag-uhon ang Panan-aw”, MBS3 aims to help change the world’s perception of Mindanao.

Among the key speakers in the morning are US Deputy Chief of Mission Leslie Bassette and Adel Tamano. CDO Mayor Constantino Jaraula and Agusan del Sur Rep. Rodolfo Plaza gave updates and encouraged the participants to help promote Mindanao.

During the lunch break, I left the hall with my fellow volunteer Weng. We were so sleepy and tired by then because we hadn’t slept the past night,and so we skipped lunch just to take a nap and returned after an hour.

In the afternoon, the topics focused mainly on blogging from speakers Janette Toral, Aileen Apolo and Lyle Santos. This was followed with updates from bloggers from Davao – Jim Haw , Gensan – Avel Manansala, Zamboanga – Ryann Elumba and Cagayan de Oro – Edward Segundo.

It’s my first time to join Mindanao Bloggers Summit and I could say it was unforgettable since it was my first too to join as a volunteer in a blogging event.

I’m thankful for those who joined the event especially the speakers and the following sponsors as well for making this event a success:

Nokia OVI – www.ovi.com
Smart Communication – smart.com.ph
Make Your Own Havaianas – spruce.ph
1st Rafting Adventures – www.raftingadventurephilippines.com
UltraCraft – ultracraftadvertising.com
Syntactics – syntacticsinc.com
Majesty Sales Center
Clara’’s Shoppe -  clarashoppe.multiply.com
MakatiAve.com – makatiave.com
Asterisk Event and Communications – asteriskeventsandcommunications.com
Loretos Bar and Grill

Dinner with CDObloggers @ Loreto’s Grill

Just the night before Mindanao Bloggers Summit 3, my fellow CDObloggers and I went to Loreto’s Grill and Bar to have dinner and to welcome as well bloggers from Davao who will be joining the event the next day.  We were so excited then to personally meet bloggers whom we only know online.

The dinner was hosted by Loreto’s and we stayed in a function room equipped with

Mindanao Bloggers Summit 3 Press Release

Nearly 300 bloggers from all over Mindanao, new media advocates and experts, Mindanaoan leaders and other stakeholders will converge in Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao on October 24, 2009 for the much-awaited 2009 Mindanao Bloggers Summit, which aims to uphold the beauty and strength of the island and to expunge the negative notions the world has about it.

(Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, Philippines – October 21, 2009) – Considered unprecedented in the Philippine blogosphere, a top ranking United States Embassy dignitary is set to grace the much-awaited Mindanao Bloggers Summit 3, which will be held on October 24, 2009, 8am to 5pm, Pearlmont Inn, Limketkai Drive, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao.

Deputy Chief of Mission Leslie Bassett will deliver the keynote address during this year’s summit, which holds the theme, “Mindanao: Bag-Uhon Ang Panan-Aw.”

Bassett’s trip to CDO will be her first trip to Mindanao since assuming office last June. She previously served as DCM in Mexico.

The CDO Bloggers, Inc., a group duly registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and this year’s summit organizers

A Healthy Competition for CDO Guides

CDO Bloggers’ founder ChiQ Montes has initiated a Little SEO Competition for its members. This project is up only for a healthy competition, enhance CDO Bloggers’ SEO skills and promote Cagayan de Oro City as well by being a CDO guide.

This project requires  cdo bloggers to blog anything about Cagayan de Oro with the keywords CDO GUIDE included in their posts

Below are the first five eager CDO guides:

Butcher’s Best is best in barbecue and sisig by Bang

Yesterday, my fellow CDO bloggers (your CDO Guide) had dinner in Butcher’s Best after we joined the event in ABS-CBN “Boto Mo Ipatrol Mo AKO ANG SIMULA”.

Manga-on Ta! (Let’s Eat) by Sanasanz

This blog is about Cagayan de Oro food. Food that can be found, bought, dined, served, and eaten here in CDO. I will be your online CDO Guide when it comes to CDO Food.

Virtual CDO Guide Tours You Around the City of Golden Friendship by Juvie

New to the City of Golden Friendship? Interested in visiting Cagayan de Oro? If so, then let me be your virtual CDO Guide in this city of majestic attractions, rich culture and friendly people.

Cagayan de Oro Has Already 6 Bridges by Dingexx

To my fellow Kagay-anons I would like to share this info to you guys that Cagayan de Oro has already 6 bridges all in all.. Yes you read it right we have 6 bridges.

I BLOG U CDO…by Dharlz

Today marks the beginning of organized blogging solely for the purpose of promoting my dear city, Cagayan de Oro or known to many as CDO. This blog is your CDO Guide to anything and everything CDO… Good food, good people, good places to see, sites to visit, sights and sounds to behold. I am a proud kagay-anon and a CDO Blogger who commits to all these…

And since the city’s fiesta is just a few days away, these CDO guides just know the best places to visit.

My lucky day

Yahoo!!! Just this morning I received an email from My Paper Crane’s Heidi Kenney telling me I have won the Harumika set she is giving away to one lucky reader. The set includes fabrics, stylus design tools, fashion accessories and stickers.

DigitalFilipino Club and Bloggers CDO Networking Event

Last night, I got to attend the DigitalFilipino.com Club and Bloggers CDO Networking Event, a free networking event organized by Jannette Toral from DigitalFilipino Club to update the city’s bloggers of their projects.

The attendees were mostly CDOBloggers,  SEO professionals and even OJT trainees from Syntactics Inc. , the event’s sponsor. The event began with introduction wherein participants got to introduced themselves and to plug their blogs.

Janette Toral then set about discussing the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs for the past two years, a writing project of DigitalFilipino Club that gives recognition to new and emerging bloggers. The announcement for this year’s Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs will be this August 8 and among the prizes winners will be getting are a 100$ and link love. If you want to be a part of this, you still have two weeks left to submit your entry and make known.

Work Distractions

It’s been four months already since I started out as a virtual assistant. At first I was so absorbed with my work and was able to finish most of my tasks on time. Well, that was when I still didn’t know Facebook and Plurk exist. (Don’t laugh at me pls! )