September 20: One Internet Day 2006 Cebu

DigitalFilipino.com is now on its 7th year. We are celebrating this by holding a One Internet Day event on September 20, Wednesday, from 1:10 pm to 6 pm, at Raja Hall, Raja Park Hotel, Fuente Osmeña, Cebu City. Our theme for this year is "E-Commerce Build-up for SMEs".

This event is in partnership with Prime Software, CyberPromdi, and Department of Trade and Industry ICT Business Development Team.

The program is as follows:

12:00 - 1:10 Registration
1:10 - 1:15 Welcome (Janette Toral, DigitalFilipino.com)

1:15 - 1:45 Keynote: E-Commerce for National Competitiveness and Policy Updates (Provincial Director Nelia F. Navarro, Department of Trade and Industry)

1:45 - 2:15 Internet Enabling Business Software Solutions: New Trends in Client-Server Web Computing (Mike Jurado, Prime Software)

2:15 - 3:00 Panel: State of E-Payment in the Philippines (YesPayments, Innove)

• Terecy Chia, YesPayments
• Jasmine Garrido, Innove
  

3:00 - 4:00 Panel: New E-Commerce Opportunities

• Mike Ladios, IPVG
• Lawrence Hughes, InfoWeapons
• Sheryl Ygay, Sun.Star

4:00 - 5:00 Panel: Making E-Commerce Work

• Grace Tortor, AboitizLand
• Dann Diez
• Jun Barretto

5:00 CyberPromdi Re-Launch (Frederick Amores)

This event is by-invitation only and to DigitalFilipino.com Club Members. Thank you for supporting DigitalFilipino.com!

September 19: One Internet Day 2006 Manila

DigitalFilipino.com is now on its 7th year. We are celebrating this, in partnership with the Department of Trade and Industry ICT Business Development Team, by holding a One Internet Day event on September 19, Tuesday, from 1:10 pm to 7 pm, at the e-Library 2/F AIM ACCEED Benavides St. corner Paseo De Roxas, Makati City (Greenbelt). Our theme for this year is "E-Commerce Build-up for SMEs".

The program is as follows:

12:00 - 1:10 Registration
1:10 - 1:15 Welcome (Janette Toral, DigitalFilipino.com)

1:15 - 1:30 Keynote: E-Commerce for National Competitiveness (Director Ludy Yaptinchay, Department of Trade and Industry)

1:30 - 2:00 Data Privacy and E-Commerce (Director Domingo I. Bagaporo, Board of Investments)
Awarding of Plaques to the principal drafters of DAO #8

• Atty. JJ Disini
• Atty. Lindy Gavino
• Janette Toral

2:00 - 2:30 Building Buzz with Blogs (Maoi Arroyo, Hybridigm Consulting)

2:30 - 3:30 Panel: State of E-Payment in the Philippines

• Erick Kalugdan, Load.com.ph
• Terecy Chia, YesPayments
• Danison Ofrecio, Innove
  

3:30 - 4:30 Panel: New E-Commerce Opportunities

• Enrique Gonzalez, IPVG
• Emmanuel Amador, InfoWeapons
• Erville Magtubo, ePLDT

4:30 - 5:30 Panel: Making E-Commerce Work

• Joy Ting, Boma Corp
• Charlie Gaw, Acclaim Butterflies

5:30 - 7:00 Networking and Raffle

This event is by-invitation only and to DigitalFilipino.com Club Members. Thank you for supporting DigitalFilipino.com!

Pinoy Blogging Culture

It can be noted that there are now more Filipinos actively blogging from all over the world. In fact, it has created a new breed of online personalities and celebrities. With so much content online generated through blogs, it created the need to track a lot of them to have a gist on what the blogging community is thinking at the moment.

Topics ranges from personal insights, lifestyle, to political. It even allowed the exchange of opinion on emotionally-charged issues affecting the country. As issues are discussed, more individuals and organizations find themselves exposed where their undertakings can be questioned or attacked. This is where bloggers gradually are realizing that there are also copyright and ethical concerns that they had to deal with.

One of the biggest accomplishment that Filipino bloggers have achieved is the staging blogging summits, iBlog and BlogCon, annually and be seen as a event to look forward to. This is the point where bloggers take time out to come together and exchange insights on various blogging developments.

Based on our Metro Manila Blogger Report, more than half of bloggers are very young. However, Angelo agreed with Maoi that the higher age segment with disposable income should seriously be considered for targeted marketing.