Mindanao Bloggers

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!

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 be approved once they fulfill whatever were lacking on their respective posts and so only 50 bloggers were given the thumbs-up.

Please be reminded that we have only 100 slots available so that makes it only 30 slots still up for grabs until the October 11 deadline for submission of blog posts.

After the deadline, we will be EMAILING the E-PASSES of the 100 qualified bloggers to them which will grant them entry to the Family Country Hotel and Convention Center, the official venue of the MBS2.

For the list of the first 50 qualified bloggers to the MBS2, please CLICK HERE.

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 Hotel and Convention Center at the Tuna Capital of the Philippines, General Santos City on October 25-26, 2008.

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 follow but knowing that we have got a job to do, we immediately started gathering a few volunteers, called ourselves the Convenors Collective and had a planning workshop courtesy of Hector Miñoza last 27 July at the City Mayor’s Office.

From that workshop, we were each given our individual chores and targets but not before we decided on the theme:  MINDANAWAN, PAMINAWON INTAWON:  Blogging the Mindanao Consciousness.

A series of email exchange followed including our decision to hold a BLOG SEMINAR on September 20 at the NDDU, in preparation for the BIG THING come October.  Spearheaded by Ariel Lalisan of Sarangani, this will also assure us of more participants from this side of the island on that day.

In between all these were a string of consultation email exchange with MBS 1 Team Leader Blogie Robillo and the latest, a personal meet-up over coffee at SM Davao.  In the end, he also gave his blessings on the tentative programme I showed to him.  Thanks Blogie!