JaypeeOnline » pinoy-bloggers http://jaypeeonline.net Technology, Blogging News, WordPress Theme and Plugin Reviews, Tips and Tricks Mon, 21 May 2012 03:17:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= 1st Baguio Blog Conferencehttp://jaypeeonline.net/events/baguio-blog-conference/ http://jaypeeonline.net/events/baguio-blog-conference/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 16:06:16 +0000 Jaypee Habaradas http://jaypeeonline.net/?p=9669 As a Pinoy (Filipino) blogger, I’m very glad to see how blogging and the blogging community has immensely grown back home in the Philippines the past few years. In fact, I’m a bit jealous because back when I was still in the Philippines, there weren’t any blogging events such as Wordcamp Philippines, iBlog: The Philippine Blogging Summit, regional events such as Cebu Blog Camp, Mindanao Bloggers Summit, Socksargen Blogfest, etc.

While browsing through Facebook this morning, I found out that the 1st Baguio Blog Conference will be held within a couple weeks’ time. Inspired by the success of the other blogging summits I’ve mentioned earlier, several local bloggers decided to organize the Baguio Blog Conference.

Baguio Blog Conference
WHEN: May 19, 2012 Saturday @ 8:00 AM
WHERE: University of Baguio Square Hall
ADMISSION IS FREE


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Below are the objectives of the Baguio Blog Conference:

  • Formally convene the members of the Cordillera and North Luzon Blogging Community.
  • Share knowledge in Blogging as an aide in education, tourism and business.
  • Educate the Baguio and North Luzon business community with regards to the power of blogging as an advertising medium.
  • Learn from the Blogging experts on how to write an effective online article or blog post, as well as how to effectively promote the blogs and gain readers and followers.
  • Inspire Baguio and Cordillera people to promote their localities through blogging.

LIST OF SPEAKERS

  • Janette Toral – digitalfilipino.com
  • Antonio Magno Caranzza Jr. – pusangkalye.net
  • Chyng Reyes – chyngreyes.com
  • Azrael Coladilla – azraelsmerryland.blogspot.com
  • Florencio Jusay Jr. – manualtolyf.info
  • Avelmar Manansala – gensantos.com

REGISTER HERE for the 1st Baguio Blog Conference

The local bloggers who are organizing the event are working with their own finances. To help make the event successful, they are looking for some financial assistance to help cover the expenses such as conference kits and food for participants and transportation for guest speakers. If you or your company would like to help, you can choose from one of the sponsorship packages listed below:

SPONSORSHIP PACKAGES

  • Co-Presentor: Php. 25,000.00
    (Major Billing in Event Posters and Banners, Sponsors’ Time, Press Releases and Radio Announcements, Video Commercials to be played during the event, blog posts from Cordillera Bloggers’ Network, Company Logo Post and Link from the Cordillera Bloggers Sites)
  • Major Sponsor: Php.15,000.00
    (Billing in Posters and Banners, Video Commercials to be played during the event, Blog Posts from Cordillera Bloggers, Company Logo Post and Link at the Cordillera Bloggers Site)
  • Minor Sponsor: Php. 10,000.00
    (Billing in Posters and Banners, Company Logo Post at the Cordillera Bloggers Site, )
  • Donor: Php. 5,000.00
    (Billing During the Event, Company Logo Post at the Cordillera Bloggers Site)

Wish I could attend but unfortunately, all I can do is help spread the word about the event. All the best to the event organizers, speakers and participants of the upcoming 1st Baguio Blog Conference.

Anyone here attending the Baguio Blog Conference? Do you know of any other upcoming local or regional blogging summit/conference in your area? Please share it with us.

]]> http://jaypeeonline.net/events/baguio-blog-conference/feed/ 23 Top 100 Popular Blogs in the Philippines (June 2011)http://jaypeeonline.net/proudly-pinoy/top-100-popular-blogs-in-the-philippines-june-2011/ http://jaypeeonline.net/proudly-pinoy/top-100-popular-blogs-in-the-philippines-june-2011/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 01:26:04 +0000 Jaypee Habaradas http://jaypeeonline.net/?p=9522 Found out earlier today that PinoyMoneyTalk has released an update to The 100 Most Popular Blogs in the Philippines released last March. For those who are not familiar with this, it is different from the Top 50 Ranked Blogs which uses Alexa rankings. For this “survey”, PinoyMoneyTalk uses four different measures related to Website Traffic and User Engagement to monitor more than 200 blogs.

Here are the Top 100 Popular Blogs in the Philippines (June 2011)
Top 100 Popular Pinoy Blogs

For a more detailed information on the metrics used, check out this post.

Top 10 Blogs with Most Unique Visitors (from January-June 2011)

  1. BatangasToday.com – 246,192 unique monthly visitors
  2. Rickey.org – 162,051 unique monthly visitors
  3. DailyContributor.com – 70,079 unique monthly visitors
  4. Mykiru.blogspot.com – 55,113 unique monthly visitors
  5. NursingCrib.com – 48,615 unique monthly visitors
  6. JunAuza.com – 42,393 unique monthly visitors
  7. JaypeeOnline.net – 38,886 unique monthly visitors
  8. ChuvaChienes.com – 37,587 unique monthly visitors
  9. PanlasangPinoy.com – 30,818 unique monthly visitors
  10. PhilBoxing.com – 29,503 unique monthly visitors

Top 10 Blogs with Highest Pageviews per User (from January-June 2011)

  1. Istorya.net – 15.20 pages viewed per user per visit
  2. StyleManila.com – 11.20 pages viewed per user per visit
  3. PinoyFitness.com – 7.90 pages viewed per user per visit
  4. PinoyAmbisyoso.com – 7.30 pages viewed per user per visit
  5. ForeclosurePhilippines.com – 7.00 pages viewed per user per visit
  6. TheFilipinoEntrepreneur.com – 7.00 pages viewed per user per visit
  7. MotorcyclePhilippines.com – 6.60 pages viewed per user per visit
  8. FinanceManila.net – 6.20 pages viewed per user per visit
  9. MattsCradle.com – 5.30 pages viewed per user per visit
  10. Lynxjuan.com – 5.10 pages viewed per user per visit

Top 10 Blogs with Longest User Time on Site (from January-June 2011)

  1. StyleManila.com – 17.09 minutes per user
  2. Istorya.net – 17.05 minutes per user
  3. ForeclosurePhilippines.com – 15.24 minutes per user
  4. PinoyFitness.com – 14.43 minutes per user
  5. PinoyAmbisyoso.com – 12.34 minutes per user
  6. TheFilipinoEntrepreneur.com – 9.8 minutes per user
  7. MattsCradle.com – 9.16 minutes per user
  8. MotorcyclePhilippines.com – 8.61 minutes per user
  9. FinanceManila.net – 8.36 minutes per user
  10. GenSantos.com – 5.99 minutes per user

Top 10 Blogs with Lowest Bounce Rate (from January-June 2011)

  1. Lynxjuan.com – 16.8% of visitors viewing only one page
  2. StyleManila.com – 25.3% of visitors viewing only one page
  3. Istorya.net – 26.8% of visitors viewing only one page
  4. ForeclosurePhilippines.com – 32.8% of visitors viewing only one page
  5. PinoyFitness.com – 32.9% of visitors viewing only one page
  6. FinanceManila.net – 34.8% of visitors viewing only one page
  7. TheFilipinoEntrepreneur.com – 35.3% of visitors viewing only one page
  8. MelvinBlog.com – 35.4% of visitors viewing only one page
  9. MotorcyclePhilippines.com – 39.6% of visitors viewing only one page
  10. PinoyAmbisyoso.com – 49.1% of visitors viewing only one page

Like I said in the previous update, its always good to be listed among the 100 Most Popular Pinoy Blogs and see other online friends’ blogs make it. However, in my case I have a lot of work to do to improve on the areas of Time on Site and especially on Bounce Rate. For those who are regular readers, I would like to hear your feedback, suggestions and opinions.

Thanks to James of PinoyMoneyTalk for taking the time and effort to gather all the data and share it with us!

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If you’re a blogger based in the Philippines, then you’ll probably want to mark your calendars and make sure you don’t have any appointments this coming April 1 and 2. Why? So you can attend iBlog7: The 7th Philippine Blogging Summit. Like last year, iBlog7 will be held at the Malcolm Theater, Malcolm Hall, UP College of Law, UP Diliman, Quezon City.

iBlog7 is a two-day event. The first day, April 1st will be for entrepreneurs and businesses who want to learn how to tap blogs as a medium for promoting their products and services. The second day, April 2nd will be for everyone who are interesting about blogging. Just to make sure you got it right, below are the complete details of the upcoming event:

WHAT: iBlog:The 7th Philippine Blogging Summit
WHERE: Malcolm Theater, Malcolm Hall, UP College of Law, UP Diliman, Quezon City
WHEN: April 1-2, 2011

iBlog7 Schedule of Activities:

Day 1 (April 1, 2011)

9:00 – 9:15 Welcome
9:15 – 9:35 Sponsor Talk
9:45 – 10:05 Blogger Etiquette: How to be a Blogger with Integrity (Earth Rullan)

BREAK

10:45 – 11:05 Public Relations Success through Effective Social Media Management (Ruben Licera Jr.)
11:15 – 11:35 Be the Blogging and Social Media Champion in your Company (Regnard Raquedan)

BREAK

1:00 – 1:20 Blog Traffic 102 (Melvin Dichoso)
1:30 – 2:00 Organizing Online Contest (Jayson Biadog and another resource person)
2:15 – 2:35 Offline Marketing for your Blog (Ginger Arboleda)
2:45 – 3:05 Ten Power Blogging Advance Tips (Carlo Ople)

BREAK

3:45 – 4:05 Earning from Blogging (EJ Arboleda)
4:15 – 4:25 Are we ready for a National Bloggers Association or Professional Bloggers Association? (Janette Toral)

Raffle, Group Picture

Day 2 (April 2, 2011)

9:00 – 9:15 Welcome
9:15 – 9:35 Sponsor Talk
9:45 – 10:15 Blogging 101 (Jonel Uy & Jinkee Umali)

BREAK

11:00 – 11:20 Podcasting 101 (Adrian Jeric Peña)
11:30 – 11:50 Dealing with Writer’s Block (Roy Dela Cruz)

BREAK

1:00 – 2:00 Blogging for Advocacy (Sonnie Santos, Grace Nicolas, Gus Cosio, Ivan Henares)
2:15 – 2:35 Blog Traffic without SEO (Fitz Villafuerte)

BREAK

3:15 – 3:35 Your Blog and Facebook (Mon Macutay)
3:45 – 4:05 Building a Discussion Community (Michael Rubio)
4:15 – 4:35 Blogging, Social Networks, Online Relationships as Support System (Ria Tirazona)

Raffle, Group Picture

REGISTER NOW for iBlog7: The 7th Philipping Blogging Summit.

iBlog7 has a great lineup of topics and speakers, so you wouldn’t want to miss it. I wonder if they’ll be doing a livestream of the event? I’m sure those bloggers who couldn’t attend would like that. Btw, anyone notice the brand new logo iBlog logo? It’s looks livelier and definitely much better than the old logo.

Blogging events such as these depend on the help of generous sponsors so if you or your company is interested in sponsoring this event, check out the iBlog7 Sponsorship Packages.

NOTE: The first 250 persons who register will be given food stubs and event kits so if you decide to attend iBlog7, make it a point to register early. Btw, the remaining food stubs and kits will be handed out to early walk-ins.

Anyone already registered or planning on attending iBlog7: The 7th Philippine Blogging Summit? Which particular topics and/or speakers are you interested to hear the most?

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A few days ago, the organizers of the Philippine Blogging Summit announced and posted the schedule of iBlog6: The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit. This year’s event is scheduled for April 16-17 and will be held at the Malcolm Theater of the UP College of Law, University of the Philippines Diliman Campus.

Previous Blogging Summits were only 1 day events. This year, iBlog6 will be 2 days and as usual, it is open to everyone and registration is FREE. Day 1 of the event will be for businesses and entrepreneurs who are interested to know how to tap blogs as a medium for promoting their products and services. Day 2 is meant for everyone who interested about blogging.

iBlog 6 Schedule of Activities:

Day 1 (April 16, 2010)

9:00 – 9:20 Opening Ceremonies (National Anthem, Welcome)
9:20 – 9:40 Blogging for Business (Janette Toral)
9:50 – 10:10 Tapping Bloggers to Generate Buzz (Jayvee Fernandez)

10:20 – 10:35 BREAK

10:35 – 11:05 Advertising in Blogs (Abe Olandres and Carlos Palma)
11:20 – 11:40 SPONSOR talk

12:00 – 1:15 LUNCH / NETWORKING

1:15 – 1:35 SEO & Blogging to Promote Your Business (Francis Gary Viray)
1:50 – 2:10 Measuring Blog Buzz (Carlo Ople)

2:25 – 2:45 Legal Concerns in Blogging for Business (JJ Disini)

3:00 – 3:20 BREAK

3:20 – 3:40 Blogger and Advertiser: What is the Win-Win Relationship? (Diana Paterno)

3:50 – 4:10 Online Attraction Marketing (Manuel Viloria)

4:20 RAFFLE and GROUP PICTURE

Day 2 (April 17, 2010)

8:45 Opening Ceremonies (National Anthem & Welcome)

9:00 – 9:20 Blogging 101 (Hannah Villasis)
9:30 – 10:00 Video Blogging 101 (Vince Golangco)
10:15 – 10:35 Photo Blogging 101 (Juned Sonido)

10:50 – 11:05 BREAK

11:05 – 11:40 Political, Online Commentary, Social Media, & Election Blogging 2010 (Marck Ronald Rimorin and Noemi Dado)

12:00 – 1:15 LUNCH & NETWORKING

1:15 – 1:35 (SPONSOR TALK)
1:50 – 2:10 Launching Successful Blog Contests (Jinoe Gavan)

2:25 – 2:45 Blog Policies (UP-ISP)

3:00 – 3:15 BREAK

3:15 – 3:35 Impact of Blogging to the Community (Joseph Gonzales)

3:50 – 4:10 SEO: A Must for Making Money Online (Marhgil Macuha)

4:30 RAFFLE, iBlog Video Contest Winner Announcement, and GROUP PHOTO

What are you waiting for? REGISTER NOW for iBlog6

These are the type of events that I’d love to attend and be a part of, but unfortunately I can’t because I’m not in the Philippines. All I can do is support these events and help promote them. If you’d like to be a sponsor of iBlog6, please check out the Sponsorship Packages.

Anyone planning or are sure to attend iBlog6: The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit? Are you going to attend both day 1 and 2? Which topics/speakers are you looking forward to hear?

]]> http://jaypeeonline.net/events/iblog6-the-6th-philippine-blogging-summit/feed/ 7 Top 10 Emerging Influential Pinoy Blogs of 2009http://jaypeeonline.net/events/top-10-emerging-influential-pinoy-blogs-of-2009/ http://jaypeeonline.net/events/top-10-emerging-influential-pinoy-blogs-of-2009/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:10:11 +0000 Jaypee Habaradas http://jaypeeonline.net/?p=4813 About the same time last year, I posted the winners of the Top 10 Emerging Influential Pinoy Blogs of 2008 writing project. Last weekend, August 8th was the eyeball event and awarding ceremony for this year’s Top 10 Emerging Influential Pinoy Blogs held at the Forum Hall of the Casino Filipino in Parañaque City, Philippines.

Even though I knew most of the participants/nominees last year, this year is different from last year because several nominees are close to my heart. First is Patay Gutom, a Pinoy food blog created by Jehzeel Laurente and of which I am one of the “contributors”. Next is a group of bloggers who belong to the Jedi Bloggers (which I am “officially” a part of) – Jan Geronimo of Writing to Exhale, Doc Z of Zorlone, and Kelvin Servigon of Kelvinonian Ideas 2.0.

Top 10 Emerging Influential Pinoy Blogs of 2009
Winners of the 2009 Top 10 Emerging Influential Pinoy Blogs

Here’s the complete list of the Top 10 Emerging Influential Pinoy Blogs of 2009.

I was preoccupied the whole weekend that I totally forgot about the event and forgot to check who the winners are. It was just today that I remembered it and I was very happy to find out that the top two winners are both my friends Writing To Exhale and Patay Gutom. Congratulations to you guys and also to the rest of the Top 10 Emerging Influential Pinoy Blogs of 2009.

I wish I was able to attend the event and meet my blogging friends and the other Pinoy bloggers. I envy you guys! I’m sure you all had a great time. I’d also like to extend my congratulations to Ms Janette Toral and the rest of the organizers for the success of this event.

New Media Coverage:

Photos:

Links courtesy of Fritz.

[image source: Iris Aeirin]

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