The 2nd Philippine Blogging Summit will be held on Tuesday, April 18 at the U.P. College of Law, U.P. Diliman, Quezon City from 9 am to 5 pm. Same as last year, this event is FREE!
Here’s our program for this year’s event:
9:00 to 10:00
Keynote Message
by Rebecca MacKinnon, Global Voices
Trends and Technology for Filipino Bloggers
By Emil Avancena, DotPH
Snacks
Parallel Tracks: Breakout sessions (2 Rooms)
10:30 - 12:00
Track 1: Political Blogging Panel
Panel Moderator: Atty. Fred Pamaos
Blogs and the battle for ideas: personalities and issues
by Manuel L. Quezon III
Blogging and Participatory Governance
by Davao City Councilor Peter Laviña
Track 2: Personal Blogging Panel
Panel Moderator: Noemi Lardizabal-Dado
Blogging for mere mortals
By Joel Yuvienco
Making your blog funny and humorous
by Anton De Leon
Shameless Self-Promotion: How to Be Heard in a Referral World
by Mike Abundo
12:00 LUNCH BREAK
1: 00 Keynote
Blogging and Podcasting as Tools for Political Education
By Dr. Ronald Meinardus, Friedrich Naumann Foundation
Raffle
Breakout Sessions
1:30 - 3:00
Track 3: Legal Blogging Panel
Panel Moderator: Atty. Noel Oliver Punzalan
Speak No Evil?: Libel for Bloggers
by Atty. Marvin Aceron
Look Before You Link: Avoiding Plagiarism, Copyright Infringement and Other Pitfalls
by Atty. Bong Dizon
Track 4: Art & Literary Blogging Panel
Panel Moderator: Lionel Gonzaga
Write here, Write now: The Author as a Blogger
by Dean Alfar
Comic Books and Blogging
by Jonas Diego
Blogs as Teaching Tools
By Zarah Gagatiga
BREAK
3:30 - 5:00
Track 5: Professional Blogging Panel
Panel Moderator: Atty. Ma. Elena Cardinez
Problogging: Professional Blogging and Blog Monetization
by Abe Olandres
Blogging as a Profession: From Full-Time Employee to Full Time Blogger
by J Angelo Racoma
Putting Search Engines to Work for your Blog
by Marc Hil Macalua
Tracking Blog Performance
by Charo Nuguid
Track 6: Media Blogging & Podcasting Panel
Panel Moderator: Ernesto Sonido Jr.
Blogging from a journalist’s point of view
by Ellen Tordesillas
Blogs as source for story leads
by Erwin Oliva
How to create, promote, and monetize podcasts
by Manuel Viloria
Use of Podcasting in Promoting Advocacy and Products
by Pocholo Gonzales and Brian Ligsay
CLOSING
5:00 Closing remarks, raffle, group picture taking
All speakers are requested to refrain from product or service pitches.
See you folks at iBlog2: The 2nd Philippine Blogging Summit!
Cheers!
- Janette Toral
jtoral@iblogph.org
//just read this in Analyn Jusay's article in TEch News (www.annalyn.net)
and now i surfed in technorati for some juicy info about this summit //
2 Comments
tnx !!! it was a short notice for me, but will drop by coz i failed to attend the 1st summit last year :)