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Review-writing competition opening salvo

It’s the first of August, and it’s the opening day of the You Got Blogged! DigitalFilipino.com / MindanaoBloggers.com Review-a-Blog Competition. Here’s an overview of the steps necessary to participate in this blog contest. Step 1 • Browse the Mindanao Blog Directory, and choose a blog that you’d like to review. Step 2 • Write a [...]

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Spotlight on Mindanao blogs: a unique blog contest

Hello everybody! We’re running a one-of-a-kind blogging contest right here, and absolutely everyone is invited to participate! It’s called You Got Blogged! DigitalFilipino.com / MindanaoBloggers.com Review-a-Blog Competition. Quite a mouthful, yes, but so are the prizes! We’re giving away US$150 for the first prize… but this just might be for starters! This competition will involve [...]

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Would you like to be exiled to Dapitan?

Figure it out: What was it like to be deported and exiled 115 years ago, when there were no telephone, malls, family, and faster means of transportation? And your only link to the world was through a snail mail, which perhaps you could not even depend upon because you fear that, perhaps, the Spaniards were [...]

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It’s final: MBS1 on 27 Oct

After taking into account several salient considerations surrounding the 1st Mindanao Bloggers Summit and the 6th Mindanao ICT Congress, the MBS1 organizing team has unanimously decided to set the Summit’s date on 27 October 2007 (Saturday). This is final. We apologize if this slight flip-flopping with the Summit’s event date has caused confusion or conflict. [...]

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Another Reason to Travel

Low-cost airline Cebu Pacific has reduced its year-round â€˜Goâ€™ fares for most of its domestic routes beginning July 20, 2007. The year-round one-way fare for services from Manila to any Mindanao destination (and vise-versa) was reduced by more than 30% from P998 to P688. Fares are equivalent to an all-inclusive one-way of a little over [...]

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Pristine Selinog Island

One of the perks of being in development work is the chance to move around the country. For the past 8 years, I have been going in and out of Mindanao, particularly Davao, Zamboanga Peninsula, CDO, etc. I only regret now that I have not blogged earlier. The good thing, however, was that I was [...]

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Another Hurrah for Camiguin!

I found this article about Camiguin featured by The Travel Magazine. The Great Britain-based publication cited Camiguin has as one of the best beaches in the world. The magazine said that it is the best beach to visit during April. The journalists and researchers for the magazine considered Camiguin as one of the best after [...]

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New date for MBS1

It’s official. The 1st Mindanao Bloggers Summit (MBS1) will now be held on 20 October 2007 (this is also a Saturday). This is in keeping with the decision of the people behind the Mindanao ICT Congress to move all the events a week earlier. We, the organizers of MBS1, sincerely apologize to anyone who might [...]

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Summit date might be moved

The Mindanao Bloggers Summit, as has been mentioned before, is part of the larger 6th Mindnaao ICT Congress (MICT). As such, the Summit will stand to benefit from the promotions and marketing that the MICT organizers will do. However, it is apparently also under the mercy of the same organizers’ decisions. This week, the MICT [...]

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“Natural Wonders” in Mindanao

This is a plea to all Filipinos especially Mindanaoans who are reading this blog. There is now what the New7Wonders organization calls the “New 7 Wonders of Nature.” Please, please, please nominate a natural site or natural monument here in Mindanao or anywhere in the Philippines for that matter which you think should be one [...]

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Blogs Directory

Hey there, bloggers of Mindanao!! Here’s yet another directory for you to submit your blogs to — right here on MindanaoBloggers.com. Just click on the Blog Directory link on the sidebar and you’re good to go! The Directory is arranged by region, and then by province (which lists all the towns and/or cities within its [...]

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Buy 1 Take 2 for Philippine Airlines

It’s travel season again for ticket bargain hunters as it is the lean season as far as the local travel/tourism industry is concerned. I saw an advertisement for Philippine Airlines regarding its Buy 1 Economy Class Domestic Ticket and Take 2 Domestic Economy Class Tickets For Free! promo. The weather nowadays is unpredictable as it [...]

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The Mindanao blog

This is a feature of Bob Martin’s quintessential Mindanao blog. His blog is the best source of information (news & opinion) for anybody who’s traveling to the island of Mindanao, Philippines.

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Cheap Travel to Mindanao by Air

There are at least 5 local airlines that serve many cities in Mindanao for air travelers. Cebu Pacific (CEB) and to some extent Air Philippines is setting the pace for all other airlines through its low-cost business model. If your only concern is to get to point B from point A in a prompt manner [...]

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Sponsorship packages are out!

Announcement of the publication of the sponsorship packages for the upcoming Mindanao Bloggers Summit. The program of activities has also been updated.

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