Mindanao Bloggers Community

This is to officially announce the venue and host of this year’s summit of Mindanao’s bloggers: Cagayan de Oro City. I am certain that the bloggers of Cagayan de Oro will be able to organize and stage the 3rd Mindanao Bloggers Summit successfully. This year, we are aiming for more meaningful and practical topics. Spearheading [...]

We are really on the roll! In their paper and online editions for today, October 22, 2008, both Business World and Sunstar featured the upcoming 2nd Mindanao Bloggers Summit, which is just three days away. Thanks to my writer friends (and fellow bloggers), Edwin Espejo (http://eeportal.com) and Bong Sarmiento (http://bongsarmiento.com) for the free publicity. For [...]

There have been a few negative posts that might shed a bad light on the post-WordCamp activity that we’re conducting, the Cebu Pacific Blogging Challenge. We, the organizers of WordCamp Philippines 2008, feel that our reputation might be at stake due to a misunderstanding. This bloggers’ contest that we have created is meant to promote [...]

The recently-concluded WordCamp Philippines 2008, the first international bloggers event in the country, was a success in several ways. Foremost is the learning that the participants were able to go through during the whole exercise. Judging by the blog posts after WordCamp, the campers certainly appreciated what they came for. Second, it was a success [...]

The 2nd Mindanao Bloggers Summit will be held in General Santos City. I’m proud to report that the organizing team will be led by Avel Manansala of Bariles Republic. In the past months, the Soccsksargen bloggers have been quite active, and have been in close contact with the MindanaoBloggers core group in Davao all this [...]

A pioneering effort in print media was launched today — a locally-published magazine intriguingly called m. To quote its publishers, M is "the first-ever glossy travel and lifestyle magazine that will showcase the best that Mindanao has to offer. M features stories ranging from adventure destinations, culinary pursuits, nocturnal activities, unique fashion creations, beauty and [...]

You asked for it, so now you have it! We ran a poll asking you if you wanted to have a bulletin board for Mindanao Bloggers, and "Yes" won. The Mindanao Bloggers Forum is now online at www.mindanaobloggers.org. It’s still very, very new. In fact I’m still popping the bubble wrap! Meaning, there’s not much [...]

Today, we have reached 300 blogs in the Mindanao Blog Directory! Thanks to Migs of WISIWIB (What I See Is What I Blog) for submitting the 300th listing! As you might know by now, the Directory is organized by region, and the sub-categories are the provinces and chartered cities. Here’s the current breakdown of the [...]

For some reasons I think brought about by the deregulation of air travel with the help of competition and demand-and-supply the 3 major Philippines-based air carriers Cebu Pacific (domestic and international), Air Philippines (domestic) and Philippine Airlines (domestic) simultaneously have their own seat promotions. Whew! I’m now very torn when and where to go to [...]

Here’s the list of the top 100 Mindanao Blogs for 2007. The list was taken from the registered blogs found in the Mindanao Blog Directory. The blogs’ ranking were based on the data taken from technorati and feedburner. To the authors of the following blogs, congratulations! http://www.alleba.com/blog http://www.mindanao.com/blog http://www.jehzlau-concepts.com http://www.batangyagit.com http://www.vinceleste.com http://spaceofinfluence.blogspot.com http://blog.jammedph.com http://aclworld.blogdrive.com http://www.dotastrategy.com [...]

The winners of the You Got Blogged! DigitalFilipino.com / MindanaoBloggers.com Review-a-Blog Competition are as follows: FIRST PRIZE: A Councilor Who Makes a Difference by Rey Ian Corpuz SECOND PRIZE: Mandaya Moore-Orlis: Blogged Beyond Humor by Caesar Balatero THIRD PRIZE: PRC Board Exam Results by Conrad Miguel Gozalo Congratulations to our winners!!! And congratulations to those [...]

The You Got Blogged! review-a-blog competition is now concluded. No more entries will be accepted. As of midnight today, we have 22 entries. Please click here to view them. Thank you very much to all the bloggers who participated in this event! And thanks are also in order to our sponsor, the DigitalFilipino Club. Please [...]

Good news to all bloggers from South Cotabato, North Cotabato, Cotabato City, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani and General Santos City! You guys now have your very own blog aggregator site — www.minsur.net. Recently, Avel Manansala of General Santos expressed an interest to promote the blogs of South-Central Mindanao (hence, minsur.net), and ultimately, to make known to [...]

The You Got Blogged! review-writing competition is on its final stretch. Deadline for submission of entries is on 14 December 2007. We will accept entries up to 11:49 PM of that day. So far, we have 19 reviews on the list. You have 5 days to join and get a chance to win $150!

Low-cost carrier Cebu Pacific rolled-of today its year-end sale to its domestic destinations through its much awaited seasonal PISO FARE promotion. The airline is offering 1 peso one-way fares for travel from January 1 to March 12, 2008. More than 100,000 seats are up for grabs. Logically, the promo fare doesn’t include fuel surcharge and [...]