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MindanaoBloggers satellite communities

Ever since the 1st Mindanao Bloggers Summit in October 2007, I’ve seen various bloggers’ groups sprout in different parts of Mindanao. Back then, there were groups in Davao and in Cagayan de Oro. Then General Santos, inspired by the Summit and by the activities of MindanaoBloggers.com, also got themselves and organized and were successful in [...]

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FB#16 – Monkey Monitor

Monkey Monitor A Dose of Daily Experience, Captured and Documented Name: Kristan Franco Location: General Santos City

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Thoughts on MBS2

25th October 2008, General Santos City — the 2nd Mindanao Bloggers Summit was conducted and concluded with flying colors, thanks in large part to Avel Manansala and his team. The bloggers of Soccsksargen really made a fantastic showing! But let’s not forget that a blogger from Zamboanga City, Ryann Elumba, made a big contribution by [...]

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MBS2 featured in Business World and Sunstar

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 [...]

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(UPDATED) E-pass for MBS2 to be emailed out this week

UPDATE! (8:15pm, 18 October 2008): All E-passes will finally be sent to your email address by Kuya Migz on Monday, October 20. Please refer to his earlier email to you for reference. Sorry for the confusion. Calling all MBS2 attendees!

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MBS2 Update: Book your rooms NOW at any of GenSan’s Hotels and Inns

Here are the rates of some of the hotels and pension houses in Gen. Santos City. We suggest that you book through us as early as possible so that we can reserve your rooms. There is also another convention at the same dates as ours so we have to reserve our rooms fast!

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MBS2 Registration Week 1: 50 bloggers qualify!

Exactly a week to the day when the gates were opened for the registration of would-be participants to the 2nd Mindanao Bloggers Summit, a total of 70 bloggers have already signed up and submitted their blog posts or articles on the issue for verification. About 20 of these submissions still have incomplete requirements and will [...]

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(Last Call!) Registration for 2nd Mindanao Bloggers Summit now open

LAST CALL to those attending the MBS2: We are closing the registration at 6am tomorrow, October 3, 2008. We have actually only a very few slots left. Congrats to those who made it! Finally, the registration for the 2nd Mindanao Bloggers Summit is now open. The MBS2 will be held at the Family Country [...]

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The Cebu Pacific Blogging Challenge

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 [...]

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WordCamp Philippines 2008 — a success!

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 [...]

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GenSan waits for you at the MBS2!

For the past months, our group of Soccsksargen Bloggers has been working silently together on the roadmap we have designed for the conduct of the 2nd Mindanao Bloggers Summit slated on October 25, 2008 in General Santos City. We all knew that the first one in Davao City last year was a tough act to [...]

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MediaNation5.2

In a forum where the gatekeepers of Philippine media congregate and discuss pressing concerns, MindanaoBloggers was given the opportunity to break into the consciousness of mainstream media. MediaNation is an annual convention of publishers, editors, news managers — the movers and shakers of the country’s media organizations, and it recently concluded its sixth conference. I [...]

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A fresh take on Mindanao

In his column today, Manila Standard columnist Bong Austero (writing under Are We There Yet?) challenges his fellow journalists who write myopically about Mindanao. His words are a refreshing breath of fresh air, considering it’s coming from the general direction of Metro Manila. But it should not be surprising, because Austero grew up in Davao [...]

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WordCamp Philippines 2008

The spearheading of the organization of WordCamp Philippines 2008, in both Manila and Davao, is in the hands of Mindanaoans (among them, an adoptive Dabawenyo). This is the same group of intrepid bloggers who made our MindanaoBloggers.com community possible. When we were organizing MBS1, I was asked by Matt Mullenweg when we spoke over Skype [...]

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GenSantos.com redesign

I’m proud to announce the redesign of Soccsksargen’s leading blog, Bariles Republic. It actually looked good before, but now it looks even better! Blogger Avel Manansala of General Santos City asked Winston Almendras to do the complete makeover of the site. The layout of the blog is akin to an online magazine, which is what [...]

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