All roads for Visayas bloggers lead to Silay City today for the 2011 Philippine Blog Awards (PBA) – Visayas.  The PBA is a an annual event that aims to give recognition to outstanding blogs in the Visayas.

The PBA-Visayas will be be held at 2pm today at the Sen. Jose C. Locsin Cultural and Civic Center in Silay City. The program will feature the presentation of AVP documentary “Rediscover Silay” by Leo Vision and the performance of Kabataang Silay Rondalla. There will also be food tasting of the delicious treats from Merci Pasalubong and buy pasalubong right there at the venue.

A‘Lagaw Silay’ guided tour will be facilitated by Silay Tourism Office headed by Ver Pacete on November 13, 2011 at Balay Negrense Museum, Hacienda Adela Folklore Village, Fresh Start Organic Farm, and Silay Mangrove Eco-Park at Brgy. Balaring.

Those who pre-registered for the Heritage tour will meet at the steps of Negros Occidental Provincial Capitol at 8am on November 13 and will be picked up by the Silay City bus. A free lunch at the Balay Negrense was prepared by Fresh Start Organics and the Organic na Negros! Organic Producers and Retailers Assn. (ONOPRA).

If you want to be updated on the event, you can follow the Negros Bloggers on the following:

• Negros Bloggers on Facebook
• Negros Bloggers on Twitter
• 2011 PBA-Visayas Live Webcast

It’s official.  The Philippine Blog Awards – Visayas will be held in the heritage city of  Silay, Negros Occidental on November 12, 2011. Mayor Jose “Oti” Montelibano has graciously agreed to host the event in cooperation with the Negros Bloggers led by president, H. James Toga of the Negros Daily Bulletin. The core group had their first of many weekly meetings last Thursday, October 6, 2011 to plan for the activities during the event.

The nominations for this year’s Philippine Blog Awards are extended up to 3PM of October 15, 2011. Acceptance of nominations is extended up to 3PM of October 19, 2011.

For more information and updates, please visit the Negros Bloggers and PBA website. Click on this link to pre-register for PBA-Visayas.

We hope to see you in the event!

Negros Bloggers will host this year’s Visayas Blog Awards (VBA) this coming  November 12, 2011 at the “Ruins” in Talisay City showcasing the Visayans’ “vibrant mix of persuasions and personalities”.

Short for the word “Weblog”, a blog is an online journal of all ideas which  could include texts, videos, photos, music, and all kinds of entries which an  internet is capable and those who are into blogging are called “bloggers”.

Here in Negros Occidental, the “Negros Bloggers” was organized two years ago  and is now ready to host such a momentous event that would signal its active  involvement in the world’s borderless “virtual network” community.

To be held in Talisay at the 19th century “Ruins” of a mansion built by Don  Mariano Lacson and his wife Maria Braga, the first of its kind awarding event,  the VBA will beam this great Negros Occidental architectural feat to the  blogging community from Luzon down to Mindanao and to the unimaginable number of  bloggers all over the world.

Likewise, the VBA will bring out all sorts of blogsites and niches created by  the Visayan blogging community showcasing hundreds and hundreds of indigenous  topics developed by each blogger.

A preliminary seminar on relevant topics, meanwhile, will be held this  September 3, 2011 in preparation for the forthcoming VBA Night in November.  –  Gil Severino

Last May 30, 2011, the remaining founders of Negros Bloggers (NB) along with active online writers gathered for a fellowship dinner in commemoration of the 2nd anniversary of NB at Alice’s Recipes in Bacolod City.

The light ambiance of the joint sparked the getting-to-know each other conversation before our respective orders were served. Not much has been discussed on the meet-up but we agreed to organize a blogging event this year. Along this line, we are pushing to make a legal personality on our group so we may not be tagged as bogus or sham.

This endeavor is not a walk at the public plaza and a few cents of your ideas will be needed for this to be successful.

Present at the fellowship dinner were (seated) May Castro, Glady Tomulto, Elena Pineda-Gatanela, (standing) Maricar Dabao, Eli Gatanela, Jeff Caceres, Peter Yap, Gil Severino, and me.

The first Visayas Blogging Summit takes place this coming Saturday, November 27, 2010 at the SM CIty Cinema 2 in Iloilo City. Among the speakers who will be sharing knowledge in this pioneering event for users of internet-based media is Negros’ very own, Lloyd Tronco.

A seasoned marketing and advertising professional in Manila, Tronco shares his insights on “Why Visayans Should Blog”. Much can be learned on how blogging can be used for the purposes of advancing and promoting Negros island. A blogger himself, and one of the few Certified Digital Marketers in the Philippines, Tronco shares from his experiences as a former Arts and Culture writer and columnist of the Visayan Daily Star.

To register to this trailblazing bloggers’ event in the Visayas, click : http://www.visayasbloggers.com

Mr. Lloyd Tronco can be contacted at the following blogs: juniorgolfdad.blogspot.com, outlookph.blogspot.com and talonggo.blogspot.com.

Calling all bloggers in Bacolod City and nearby provinces, we at Negros Bloggers Club invites you to join our blogging talk on October 14, 2010 at SM City Bacolod Training Room, around 2:00 – 5:00pm. The event is entitled, Blogging: Unmasked. The resource persons will be Eric Dee, a celebrated travel blogger whose accounts of his travels around the country can be found at www.byahilo.com and Fitz Villafuerte, personal finance guru and talks about business and investing at his blog, Ready to be Rich (www.fitzvillafuerte.com). At our blogging event, our guest speakers will be talking about interesting topics such as travel blogging, photography tips and how to make money online.

For interested parties, please RSVP at our Facebook Events Page found HERE.

This event is sponsored by SM City Bacolod, Havaianas Philippines, Party Solution Bacolod, Negros Daily Bulletin and Negros Bloggers.

Start Time: Saturday, November 27, 2010 at 8:00am
End Time: Sunday, November 28, 2010 at 5:00pm
Location: TBA Iloilo

Description: The Visayas Blogging Summit & Blog Awards will be the very first event of its kind to be hosted here in Iloilo. These two events will gather bloggers from all over Visayas, invited guests from Luzon and expert speakers from different fields. The goal of the Visayas Blogging Summit (VBS) is to gather ideas and explore the potential impact of blogging on society, business and politics. The Visayas Blog Awards, on the other hand, aims to recognize notable Visayan-owned and Visayan-related blogs in their respective niches.

The Visayas Blogging Summit & Blog Awards will be hosted by the Iloilo Bloggers Organization, with the support and endorsement of Philippine Blog Awards Inc. The Iloilo Bloggers Organization is a diverse group of people who have gathered with the mission to promote blogging in Iloilo, because blogging is becoming more and more a socially relevant phenomenon.

RSVP here.

April 16 and 17, 2010 are the dates for the 6th Philippine Blogging Summit that will be held in Malcolm Theater, UP College of Law, UP Diliman, from 8 am to 5 pm. Registration to said event is FREE!

This two day event will cover the following topics:

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 – 10:20 Tapping Bloggers to Generate Buzz (Carlo Ople and Jayvee Fernandez)
10:35 to 10:50 BREAK
10:50 – 11:20 Advertising in Blogs (Abe Olandres and Carlos Palma)
11:35 – 11:50 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 (Regnard Raquedan)
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
4:30 RAFFLE, iBlog Video Contest Winner Announcement, & GROUP PHOTO

First day (April 16) is targeted for businesses and entrepreneurs wanting to understand how to tap blogs as a medium to promote their products and services while the second day (April 17) is meant for everyone interested about blogging.

REGISTER NOW!!

For more details on this event, I encourage you to visit and bookmark www.iblogph.org for updates. For interested sponsors, please click HERE.

Calling all Negros Bloggers! If you have time and resources, I suggest you attend this event. This will help us more in our quest for better blogging!

The launching of the free Wifi connection at the SM City Bacolod last July 31, 2009 – Friday, was a success! There were a lot of people attended the said event including the Negros Bloggers, people from ABI e-Tech, some senior citizens, media men, and other interested parties.

Eventhough the program started late due to the Wifi setup, still it went ok. Mommy Ruby was able to give a short talk on blogging — how to start a blog and all, stuffs like that. There is also a computer and wifi tutorial for the senior citizens. Well, what made me feel most excited is the raffle draw. LOL. I was really hoping to win the brand new Nokia phone. Unfortunately, I just won a Sony Ericsson mobile — pink pouch instead. Hehe. Mommy May, who’s a fellow Negros Blogger, won the grand prize.

Anyway, here are some of the pictures taken at the said event:

For the complete photos, proceed here: SM City Bacolod Wifi Launch

Photo credits: SM City Bacolod

Originally Posted at Maldita.Us.

I have been offline for a few days now. I was not able to write my updates immediately because aside from the fact that my children have already gotten their own FaceBook accounts, all of them and including the father are now all addicted to FarmTown. The mom, who is suffering from terrible headache and body pains, remained sidetracked for awhile to rest.

Anyway, I can’t possibly pass the days by without blogging about the First DigitalFilipino Club’s Bloggers Networking Event that happened last July 4 at Casin0 Filipino Hotel, Golden Fields, Bacolod City. The event was a blast! It was the first of the things that I really hoped for to happen to bloggers here in our place. Special thanks to Ms. Janette Toral of DigitalFilipino Club whom I have met over a year now but only in the online world. She made things possible together with PAGCOR Bacolod, their CEO Efraim Genuino, COO Rafael Francisco, VP Joey Benedicto, Bacolod branch manager Fidel Fuentes, MCCRD Assistant Manager Nancy Orcullo, Senior Marketing Manager Raymund Gatuslao, Web Management Unit Head Francis Gary Viray and others.

Thank you so much Ms. Janette! Not only for bring the event to us but for many things that you have helped the Negros Bloggers and me! We love you!

Ms. Janette Toral, Enrico Dee and Mr. Gary Viray with MOI

I would also like to thank those people who attended the event. Some have traveled from far places just to be with us! Thank you to Enrico Dee of Byahilo, Iloilo Bloggers and other members of Negros Bloggers outside Bacolod City.

Members of Negros Bloggers

Anyway, aside from all the sumptuous food which this pregnant mom enjoyed, I was ecstatic to meet many people from different places in Negros Island and also the blogging community of Iloilo City. The event was attended by 62 guests from bloggers, social networking website members like FaceBook and Friendster, e-service providers, SEO professionals and others. It was a great night of networking and opportunity building especially from bloggers and those who wanted to learn how to blog!

Ms. Janette also gave a very comprehensive presentation about the current DigitalFilipino Club actives, namely:

• Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs 2009 Update
• DigitalFilipino Web Awards 2009
• Philippine Schools Cyberfair 2010

After the event, I was so sad to leave immediately. I needed too because I am already feeling body pains and needed to rest. I was not able to try my luck at the tables while some of them won as they have told me the next day. They got FREE money from playing!

Oh well, I am glad that the event happened. It was really inspiring that is why the core members of Negros Bloggers are already excited to plan our next move to launch series of events here in Bacolod. We are so excited!!

Of before I forget, I would like to thank the core members of Negros Bloggers (Glady, Mae,  Sigrid, Dennis, Maricar, MM, Dha-Dha and Ace) who gave their best to help and make the event possible! I love you guys!

Negros Bloggers Core Members with Ms. Janette Toral and Mr. Gary Viray

Picture Credits: Ms. Janette Toral, Dhadha Garcia and Annie May Valdez.

Originally Posted at Pinay Mommy Online.