6 reasons why I want to attend the Ituloy AngSulong party

The Ituloy AngSulong party shall finally happen this Friday. I already signed up and hope to get my ticket soon. These are the things I plan to do during that party.

1. Meet as many of the Ituloy AngSulong participants and exchange business cards.
2. Some Ituloy AngSulong participants have inquired in the past about club membership and hope to be able to give more info while there.
3. Meet the female Ituloy AngSulong participants, take pictures, and post it in W3O.
4. Talk to interested Ituloy AngSulong participants who have PR6 and up websites to have their website homepage be shown in the cover of my upcoming book in exchange for a one-year link showing book cover image (for front cover) or text link (for back cover). They should agree to be featured as one of the examples in the book as well.
5. See if any Ituloy AngSulong participants will be interested to be a speaker or sponsor for iBlog3.
6. Campaign for entries and sponsors in the DigitalFilipino.com Web Awards and Philippine Schools Cyberfair.

Many thanks to everyone who supported our Ituloy AngSulong entry!

Getting speakers for iBlog3

Earlier, I mentioned about my quest for encouraging speaker volunteers and topic suggestions for iBlog3. So far, there are several who heeded the call and gave interesting topics. This includes:

• Blogging for Newbies (Chris Haravata)
  This covers blog software, widgets, Google Adsense, digital media, and blog hosting.
• Do's and Don'ts of Personal Blogging (Lauren Dado)
• Personal Blogging Success Story (Noemi Lardizabal Dado)
• Unlocking your creative blogging potential (Marcelle Fabie)
• Injecting humor in blogging (Anton De Leon)
• Blogging as alternative publishing for comic book creators (Jonas Diego)

We got interesting topic suggestions as well and hope to be able to find bloggers interested in sharing their knowledge in these areas:

• Photoblogging
• Blog themes: food, travel, etc.
• Philippine Libel Law and its implications on blogging
• Drafting of Bloggers Code of Ethics
• Blogging Success stories (Philippines' most read bloggers, Bloggers who won awards)
• Government Blogging
• Political Blogging
• Cause-oriented Blogging (including Corporate Social Responsibility, Personal Social Responsibility)
• Blogging and the Filipino diaspora
• Philippine Politics and the blogosphere (trends and trendings)
• The social relevance of the pinoyblogging (trends and trendings)
• Blogging and Journalism (print, radio, online, tv)
• Blogging as a tool for educators
• SEO for blogs
• Pro-blogging and e-commerce
• Blogging for advancing one's career

Interested resource persons can email me at jtoral(at)iblogph.org

Ituloy AngSulong iBlog3!

iBlog3: The 3rd Philippine Blogging Summit

This morning, I catched up with the UP-ISP team, headed by Atty. JJ Disini, to prepare for iBlog3: The 3rd Philippine Blogging Summit. Details will be posted on the official website within the day.

We are aiming for up to 300 bloggers to attend the event.

In addition, we recognize the concerns last year about parallel break-out tracks that made a lot of participants miss important presentations. That is why iBlog3 shall be a 2-day event this year. This will be on April 13 and 14, 2007.

Like last year, I am in charge of the content, receive topic suggestions, accept speaking proposals, consolidate the topics, help out in the sponsorship, among others.

I will definitely make sure that I won't have any trainings again this time so I won't miss it.

iBlog3 is aimed at aspiring bloggers, newbies, and the maturing blogging community.

There will be topics for beginners, professional bloggers, legal concerns, political blogging, media and the use of blogs, literary, multimedia, education, and the growth of communities.

We will aim to get sponsors so we can serve great food, nice tokens, collaterals, giveaways, and have a bloggers party on the 1st day!

So mark your calendars and let all bloggers converge on April 13 and 14 at iBlog3: The 3rd Philippine Blogging Summit! As always, this event is FREE!

Ituloy AngSulong iBlog3!

Related topics:

• Thank you for supporting iBlog2 (April 2006)
• Filipina Bloggers at iBlog2 (April 2006)
• A sense of purpose (May 2005)
• Meeting Expectations (May 2005)