Mindanao Bloggers

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!

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!

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 time. For this reason, we are confident in their enthusiasm and ability to host the next summit.

Watch out for more announcements regarding MBS2 right here!