Cebu Blog Camp started with a game which gave us the chance to interact with other attendees. If you ask me, it was such a great idea because mostly participants would be shy to interact with each other if not forced to.

Talks went on, and I learned a lot.

Shook hands with a few of my online friends

Another free event that satisfied my brain. Now, zombies would want it.

Oh, I have won a Patay Gutom keychain for using #cebublogcamp on my plurks/twits.

This is going to be my first ever trip to Cebu, or so as far as I could remember. However it is going to be a short one; arrive on 21st, attend Cebu Blog Camp on 22nd and back to home by 23rd.

What is it?

It is the first Cebu Blog Camp.

Blogging, Expressions and opportunities

Cebu Blog Camp is an event that focuses on honing the skills of bloggers offline. This event will gather a large number of bloggers all over Cebu to discuss the latest developments on the Web, Search engines, and making money online.

Why I wanted to join?

Firstly, because I could even go to Manila to attend similar events, why not on my own state – Visayas. Next reason would be because I would love to meet more Visayas bloggers, though I might not have the nerves to talk to them because I am shy (I’ll just get my calling card ready if ever I can’t open my mouth). Lastly, it is always best to attend free events – Isn’t it that the best things in life are for free?

The Cebu Blog Camp 2010

is co-presented by

Gold Sponsors

Sponsor and Media Partner

Bronze Sponsors

Geiser Maclang Marketing Communications, Inc.

Custom WordPress Theme by Padd Solutions

South Florida Party Planner Magazine
Weddings, Quinceanera, Sweet Sixteen and Events Magazine

Winston Delawar Photography, a Premiere South Florida Wedding Photographer

Black Friday Deals by Jehzlau Concepts

Jupiter Suites – Free Internet and Breakfast Hotel in Makati

Media and Institution Partners

Mozilla

RCTV 36 – Official Online and TV Media Partner

Cebu Daily News – Official Print Media Partner

Blog4Reviews

Donors

Jaypee Habaradas of JaypeeOnline.net

Cebu Blog Camp 2010 is an event organized by a group of Cebu Bloggers.

Gloo

I recently discovered this new real-time online collaboration tool called Gloo. It is one of the exclusive offers by Globe Broadband.

Gloo is perfect this season, when you have no time to personally meet with relatives, friends or colleagues to discuss plans for Christmas Party or as such.

Let me share to you my experience in using this. First, I signed up and checked my mail for activation, but found the activation email on my Spam folder; so you better check your Junk or Spam folder if you haven’t seen an email in your Inbox after creating an account on Gloo. Upon activation, I created a practice space then made this a chance to talk to my cousin who is away from home, but will be arriving in time for Christmas. I invited her on my “Practice” space. When she accepted my invitation and activated her profile, we chatted about plans regarding our Family Christmas party and I showed her a video of my daughter whom I would like to offer a song number. She loved the idea and liked that I introduced to her Gloo.

After she went offline, I edited my profile and added my Globe number as my cousin did as she activated her account. I tried the SMS feature and it works like a charm. SMS from Gloo is free, but MMS cost Php 2.50. Replying to a message sent from Gloo would also cost Php 2.50.

I really enjoyed using Gloo! This is best use as scrapbook, business page, group meetings, place for parents to interact with their kids and family from abroad, barkada message board, planning events, collaboration tool for business meeting, collaboration board for school meetings.

Inquire about Gloo if you want to know more by texting HELP GLOO to 2910 or call EGG (02) 892-8108 Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

To feel the spirit of Christmas, I added the Let It Snow plugin on my blogs. Just watching the falling snow on my monitor, entertains me and it puts a smile on my face. I hope it does the same thing to my visitors. Even we don’t get snow here in the Philippines, virtually we could do anything and it is free to dream.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Though I rarely produce pictures or posts worth stealing, I just don’t like it when someone uses it without my permission or not even giving credit to the rightful owners. My friends are often victim of these and I a few. Watermarking images doesn’t seem enough, so good thing I found a plugin that would protect me from those people.

Please if you wanted to use pictures or writings done by someone, ask their permission.

For those who wanted to protect their works, here’s a plugin for wordpress: WP-CopyProtect

All my blogs are protected now.

I recently found out the advantages of Disqus, so I made this a-must plugin on every blog I have.

What are the advantages?

• You could administrate all comments on your blogs in just one page, and you could reply there as well.
• You could promote your site by making it your URL and you could change your name to the keyword you wanted.
• No room for spammers.

To know more about Disqus, check:

Matt Flies

Political Arena

Social media sites like Facebook, Friendster, Plurk and Twitter are such a big hit here in the Philippines. People use this to keep in touch and be updated with the latest news. Political Arena is the Philippines first socio-political networking site. Its goal is to provide voter education by exploring the site features.

Politics is a hot topic now because it is nearing election day. As the Americans campaign for change during their last election, Filipino’s do as well. Filipino’s are wiser now, due to the help of media and internet.

Through television and radio, we could watch and hear debates of Presidential candidates that would help to know their personality and beliefs. Every channel are preparing a special episode that would cover this debate. However, only a few people could interact with the candidates on these events.

In the internet, Political Arena provides a venue for the masses to interact with the candidates. A member of the site like me, could ask questions regarding political issues and wait for an answer from the candidates. Members have an option to ask all the candidates or address a question to a candidate. Questions will be posted after 24 hours. There is also a section for political forum, in where members could interact with each other.

I wanted to know what other people think about the issue of Government projects marked as finish or done but not. So, I posted it on the forum and also asked questions to the candidates on what they would do to avoid these situations.

“Politicalarena.com operates under the network of 88DB.com, the Philippines’ first rich media service portal.”

I was amazed by the power of the Google Wave, so I wanted to try a few of its features.

The best thing to try is how to embed it on a blog or website. My adventure on this task started of me searching for possible ways to put a Wave on my blog. In the process, I was able to find a plugin for WordPress. I installed and tested it, but it didn’t give a satisfactory result. So I continued searching and found a discussion that helped me embed a wave.

Here’s my test wave:

I am happy with the help that I got from the discussion. I really learned a lot.

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“Connect to the internet from wherever you are and whenever you please,” with Globe Tattoo Broadband. Although the connection and speed depends on location just like mobile phones, this has been a great help during typhoon Ondoy, as some people were able to use this to communicate and ask help online.

I had an experience connecting to the internet thru my mobile phone with my Globe plan account, and the speed was impressive, because it is much faster then the dial-up connection I had. However, when my bill arrive, it was not that pleasing. Then as I read Azraels post about his experience using Globe Tattoo, I knew that with the Tattoo, you have an option to use time based browsing for 5 pesos per 15 minutes or per kb charging for 15 centavos per kb. If you know how you will be using the net, then surely you could save by choosing from those two options; the time based is good for surfing and downloading, while the kb charging is good for a quick email check. The Globe sim is set to kb charging, and it was not the right setting for my net usage. You could check your network status by texting STATUS to 1111.

The designs of Globe Tattoo Broadband is impressive. Check the Globe Tattoo Broadband New Skins for those impressive designs.

Globe Tattoo Broadband Designs

More could be found on Globe Tattoo Broadband Gallery. But if you think you could make a better design than presented, why not try your luck by submitting your design to Globe. They will be awarding 5000 pesos for the best designs and the winner gets a chance to see their work on an actual Globe Tattoo USB skins.

I know I will be buying my Globe Tattoo after seeing those beautiful trendy designs. Don’t be left behind. You’ll never know when you will be needing it, so better have one in handy. It is only for 895 pesos and with 15 internet hours for FREE.