Welcome to the online presence of Mindanao’s bloggers! This blog is an endeavor to provide a common ground for all bloggers in, from — and who blog about – Mindanao: an online community of the island’s various cultures, expressed through blogging.
In March 2007, Councilor Peter Laviña of Davao City expressed a desire to have a Mindanao-wide bloggers’ summit. And in May of the same year, during Techno Kapehan — a forum on the I.T. industry held monthly in Davao — the plans to organize this event was set in motion.
After the successful Davao Bloggers Party #1, its organizers felt confident that an event of larger scope and more serious content would be very feasible. We are Andrew, Marc, Ria, Dennis, Wyzemoro, Kim, Dom and myself (“the Usual Suspects”). For the Mindanao Bloggers Summit, we are joined by Migs, an adoptive Mindanaoan, and Honey of Cagayan de Oro. Hopefully, more bloggers from other parts of Mindanao will join the organizing group. (Interested? E-mail me: blogie [at] davaoblogs [dot] net. Please include your blog’s URL.)
MindanaoBloggers.com was conceived initially to be the promotions vehicle of the Mindanao Bloggers Summit, which will be held on 27 October 2007 in Davao City. However, in the near future, the site will hopefully be transformed into the homebase of all bloggers in Mindanao.
June 11th, 2007 at 2:09 am
Congratulations you guys! =) I hope when I go back to Davao you’ll still have vacancies for those who are interested. Thank you for constantly making the blogging community in Mindanao solid and connected. =)
June 11th, 2007 at 7:32 am
wow! this is so great!! hehehe
June 11th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Good work Mindanao bloggers!
Let’s invite many Minda bloggers affiliated with bisayabloggers like its prime mover Ayeza from Davao (but now in Canada). She might just come and bring aha an international flavor to the Oct 27 summit.
July 22nd, 2007 at 9:00 am
Congrats!
I am from Mindanao but I blog mostly from Manila. If this is so, I might not qualify for the statement “This blog is an endeavor to provide a common ground for all bloggers IN Mindanao”.
Let’s make that more inclusive by stating “”for all bloggers ABOUT Mindanao especially those IN Mindanao”. Or I am sure there are better ways to write it.
Salamat karadjaw!
Lumon gikan sa Mainit, Surigao del Norte.
July 22nd, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Thanks, Zimm! Pls check the post again: I’ve edited it to accommodate your input.
July 22nd, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Great Blogie. See you in Davao on the 1st MBS. Let me know how I can help. I thank Sir Pete Laviña for inviting me. I might bring with me some councilors of our town to see the potential of blogging for participatory governance. Cheers.