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.

Negros Bloggers was founded May 30, 2009. It was spearheaded by three brilliant minds May Castro, Glady Tomulto and Ruby Ricafrente then was later joined by Maria Sigrid Lo with husband Dennis Lo, MM Mojeno, Maricar Lo, Dhadha Garcia and Ace Viñarta.

There first meet-up happened at StarBucks, Lacson, Bacolod City on May 30, 2009. The meet-up was all about getting to know each other and sharing of online tips and endeavors. From there, they have premeditated for several meet-ups to plan for their first bloggers event sponsored by Digital Filipino Club which is the Bloggers Networking Night on July 4, 2009.

StarBucks, Lacson @ Bacolod City

Then we met other bloggers on the next successive meet-ups.

June 13, 2009 – McDonalds, Lacson @ Bacolod City

June 20, 2009 – McDonalds, Lacson @ Bacolod City