Iloilo Bloggers Organization
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January 14, 2010 Iloilo Bloggers Meeting at Bluejay-Amigo
Iloilo Bloggers Inc.
First of all we are proud to announce to everyone that our organization – Iloilo Bloggers Inc. is now officially registered at the Securities and Exchange Commission with SEC No. CN201027519. Special thanks to Junelle Caravana for doing all the legwork and the other things needed for the registration process. Salamat guid Nel!
And here’s the agenda of our meeting last January 14th:
- Announcement of the SEC registration and turnover of documents (Membership Book, certificates, etc.) from Junelle to me.
- Media Pass for Dinagyang will be taken care of by the Iloilo Dinagyang Foundation Inc.
- The Iloilo Bloggers will have 2 IDs. One Media/Events ID and one official ID and the layout will be taken care of by Marcos.
- Junelle and Junnjun were the final representatives for the Tibiao Media Tour. They went to Tibiao, Antique last weekend January 15th to 17th.
- We will have a Kasadyahan Meeting on January 23rd and the Media Passes for Dinagyang are expected to be ready on this day. Location is TBA because the restaurants and cafes will not accept reservations due to the Kasadyahan celebrations. Bloggers from Manila are expected to attend as well as forumers from Skyscraper City.
- We are looking for bloggers or non-bloggers who could volunteer to take note of tourist spots here in Iloilo then map them at Google Maps. This was requested by Miss Janette Toral and Miss Aileen Apollo so that it will be easier for them and other tourists to find the gems of Iloilo.
- We are also invited by Spa Riviera on February 7th to avail of their Free Spa Services at SM City Iloilo’s Activity Center. Please arrive early so we can be accommodated first.
- Now that we are SEC registered we will finally reorganize/restructure the Iloilo Bloggers website. We will prioritize the IloiloBloggers.com website, it will be our main portal.
After Dinagyang we will focus on the different ways we can improve our organization and on how we can help Iloilo as well. We will talk more about this on our next meeting this Saturday, January 23rd during Kasadyahan. We hope more bloggers will attend. This organization as well as any other orgs will only thrive if all the members will cooperate and help each other. If anyone has questions or suggestions please feel free to approach any of the officers. Thank you!
Here’s the list of attendees and their blogs:
- Marcos P. Caratao Jr. – http://www.exploreiloilo.com/
- Junelle Caravana – http://babsy.name/
- Emmanuel Barrios – http://www.mawesadobo.info
- Riza Belgira – http://pinoyfoodtaste.blogspot.com/
- Vicente de la Fuente – http://iluvprada.blogspot.com/
- Antoine Greg Flores – www.agboi.blogspot.com
- Mary Jane Cabrera – www.maryjanecabrera.com
A Review of 2009
It was May 9, 2009 when I met a member of Iloilo Bloggers situated in Luzon, Bernie. He was the one who has a lot of plans for the IB community and he was the one who encouraged me to have a group meeting.
July 4, 2009 Digital Filipino event at PAGCOR Bacolod. This was the first event that a few of Iloilo Bloggers attended. A first meeting for those few of us.
July 31, 2009 SM Wi-Fi Launching. The event didn’t turn out the way we expected.
August 15, 2009 First official Iloilo Bloggers Meeting at Fort San Pedro.
September 5, 2009 Meeting at JD Roadhouse.
September 21, 2009 Meeting at Joey’s Pepperoni Pizzaria
September 28, 2009 SEO Workshop by Maam Janette Toral at Netopia SM City.
September 29, 2009 Meet and Greet with Luzon Bloggers at Green Mango
October 4, 2009 Food Bloggers event at SM City. This time, we had fun because we were face to face with delicious food. Bloggers love food 
October 18, 2009 Philippine Blog Awards Visayas. Proudly, one of our member got an award, which is the “Best Visayas Locale Blog” – CONGRATS MARCOS! Also during this event, Marcos and I received a sponsor awards – Globe Digital Tribe.
October 31, 2009 Meeting at Kopi Roti
Iloilo Bloggers
November 21, 2009 2nd Meeting at Kopi Roti
November 28, 2009 Joined heART Campaign
November 29, 2009 A fail online conference
December 1, 2009 Invited by Red Ribbon for launching of new products
December 4, 2009 Bloggers Trip to Roxas for Western Visayas Tourism Assembly
As I could remember these are the activities we had last year, and I expect more this 2010.
Good Luck to US – AMEN!
Officially SEC Registered
Good News everyone … Iloilo Bloggers is now officially registered! I just finished the process of registering it this morning.
~Happy~
Protected: Online Conference Last November 29, 2009
Hopefully our next online conference will not be as disastrous as this one. I still have 10 more wave invites ...
Wala kami kabalo sang password. Anyway, may gnsend man ako nga chat transcript sa ila emails. I hope they all ...
Nov. 21, 2009 Iloilo Bloggers Meeting at Kopi Roti, Smallville Complex
Iloilo Bloggers
The Iloilo Bloggers had their 6th successful meeting yesterday, November 21st at Kopi Roti, Smallville.
The agenda were as follows:
1. heART Campaign
Patrick Mabilog, a new addition to the Iloilo Bloggers family, asked support from the org by doing what we can for the heART Campaign. The heART Campaign is a new movement started by the Marketing Society Inc. which is an academic group of BS BA major in Marketing students from UPV. The heART Campaign’s objective is to bring a new culture into society that puts priority into having the “heart” for whatever “art” or craft that they venture into.
So as bloggers, it was discussed that we can help their campaign by spreading the word in what we do best – blogging. We can write features and connect with their campaigns, to name a few. Patrick also invited us to join their press conference soon. He’ll just inform our president when. And we are also invited to attend their oathtaking ceremony. So if you are an artist, feel free to join!
To learn more about the heART Campaign check out their webpage.
2. Dinagyang
Junelle, on behalf of the Iloilo Bloggers, has sent a letter to the Dinagyang committee asking permission for the bloggers to have media passes. Ma’am Nena Magalona has responded that right now they are still reviewing the guidelines for media accreditation and they will let us know by the last week of November if we will be given media passes.
3. Registration Fee
The registration fee of Php200 was agreed upon. It will cover the expenses for the T-Shirt, ID and the membership fee. The membership fee will be a source of funds of the org.
4. Bank Account
It has been decided that Efren, our Treasurer will open a bank account at UnionBank under the name of the Iloilo Bloggers and will be signed by him and our president Claire Bretana. UnionBank was chosen so that it will be easier for the org to acquire a PayPal account. All funds will go to the bank account.
5. Red Ribbon
Red Ribbon has launched new products that would surely give people a “deliciously memorable experience” so in line with this Miss Meyan B. Lim (Marketing Services Officer of VisMin Operations) would like to invite 2 representatives from the Iloilo Bloggers to join them in celebrating their newest product offerings. They will be showcasing some of the offerings through a tasting event solely for the media on December 1st , 3PM to 4PM at the Red Ribbon store in SM City Iloilo. Press conference will follow.
We have no representatives yet. Contact Junelle or Claire before December 1st if interested.
6. Online Conference
We will have an online conference on November 29th at 8PM to follow up on our plans so please send or post your Yahoo Messenger ID to our Facebook events page. Our president Claire will be in charge of the conference.
7. Bloggers Forum
John Ray Recabar – a new member of the Iloilo Bloggers – has invited Claire and Antoine Greg to attend a Blogger’s Forum for his students at UPV on January. More details will follow regarding this.
8. Minor topics:
-Profile “makeovers” at IloiloBloggers.com. And only the profiles of the active members will be posted at the website. Before removing profiles it has been agreed upon that the inactive members’ will be informed first so they will be given the chance to introduce themselves to the org personally.
-Tithes every meeting was suggested.
And here’s the list of attendees and their blogs:
- Eddie “Junnjun” Mendoza, Jr. – http://www.gigsilonggo.com, http://www.junnjunmendoza.com
- Antoine Greg Flores – www.agboi.blogspot.com
- John Ray Recabar – http://johnrayrecabar.wordpress.com, http://salin.wordpress.com
- Ronald Medina – http://www.visita-iglesia.com
- Vinz de la Fuente – www.e-buzzonline.com
- Jesa Christine T. Capagal – www.fadstock.tk, www.mheesgee.blogspot.com
- Gian Tamayo – www.gianex.blogspot.com
- Efren – blog.efrenefren.com
- Junelle Caravana – www.babsy.name
- Duds Daquilanea – www.taga-iloilo.blogspot.com
- Marie Claire Bretana – www.malditangpinay.com
- Mary Jane Cabrera – www.maryjanecabrera.com
- Patrick H. Mabilog – www.wix.com/heartcampaign/webpage
FRIDAY BLAZE X: BREAKING THE CURSE
my University org, UP SILAB SISTERHOOD will be holding our annual project called Friday Blaze on November 13th, Friday, 7:06PM at the Iloilo Capitol Grounds. I am proud to say that this gig was born on the year we joined this sisterhood. This is our baby and now it’s on it’s 10th year!!! a decade since we conceptualized it, handed out gajillion sponsorship requests, pored over poster designs and ticket prices. now it’s time to pay back all those who’ve supported us through the years: admission is FREE!!! yep! so come one, come all! have fun on the supposedly hexed day that is friday the 13th. BREAK THE CURSE!
October 31, 2009 Meeting at Kopi Roti in Smallville
Since most of the members are not available during this meeting and topic needs to be discussed ASAP, we just proceeded even though there were just 5 of us; namely JunnJun, Greg, Marcos and Me.
So what has been discussed?
- Media Pass
- The group created a draft letter to be given to Tourism officers.
Iloilo Bloggers
- Fund Raising
- Christmas Caroling seems too hard to be implemented since not everyone are active. Greg suggested we just focus on building the group for more people to be aware of us.
- Awareness Activity
- We approach event organizers to let us cover the event and acknowledge the group. (Example, during Tigkaralag festival, I called the tourism officer if Iloilo Bloggers could cover the event, and during the event they acknowledge us even if it was just me covering it. It was nice hearing Iloilo Bloggers is one of the media covering the event. – LATEST: Greg has informed me of a Fashion show, which I forwarded to those interested like Vince, who blogs about Fashion)
- We need to contact shops or any company owners to inform us if they have promos or sale so that those interested bloggers could blog about it. (Ex. The sale at Off-Price store, info could be seen at Explore Iloilo and Gigs Ilonggo as informed by the Manager – who is luckily one of of members, Efren)
- Membership fee
- This is one resort for us to have funds, at first during our previous meeting, we discussed Php 100 which will cover the ID, so we raised it to Php 200 [to be confirmed by the President] just enough for the group to have funds. (better to discuss on the next meeting)
- Next Meeting
- Saturday, November 14, 2009 – 6PM – venue needs to be discussed.
More pics during the meeting:
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wow, special mention :)
for the fund raising we can offer a small amount weekly or monthly. for example 10 per ...
good idea treasurer :D
October 31 Meeting at Kopi Roti
Meeting this Saturday, October 31 at Kopi Roti.
Agenda:
- Media Pass for Dinagyang
- Caroling
- logo
- walang katapusang discussion sang T-shirt 
- event to plan (ma charity ta?)
what time? makakadto na ko :)
Food Bloggers Event at SM City Foodcourt
This is a Food Bloggers Event organized by SM City Foodcourt and sponsored by Breakthrough, Ocean City, Bacolod Lechon, Sizzling Plate, Casa Ilongga, Chicken n Ribs, and other SM Foodcourt Tenants.
All bloggers are invited to take part in the said event. Free food and drinks. There will also be a place for bloggers to sit and talk, or to charge their laptops.
The event will be blogged and documented by bloggers. In fact, they are encouraged to take photos of the dishes that will be presented. Information about each foodcourt tenant will be provided.
Tomorrow afternoon there will be a Food Bloggers Event at SM Foodcourt. The starting time, however, has been moved to 12:00 noon because there will be another event at the Activity Center at 3 pm. Registration starts promptly at 12 noon.
First come, first served.
Registration is needed because only the first 15 bloggers to register will get the full range of freebies from the event’s sponsors. The rest of the group who were late and those who did not send their names and blog URLs will not get certificates.
However, there will still be raffle prizes where everyone can join as long as they have registered for the event. The total value of the raffle prizes and freebies is worth nearly 4,000 pesos.
Here is the list of bloggers I have sent to Mr Leo Sorita, Marketing Manager of SM City Foodcourt:
1. Vicente de la Fuente – http://iluvprada.blogspot.com/
2. Riza Belgira – http://pinoyfoodtaste.blogspot.com/
3. Jalexander Hongco – http://theorygame.wordpress.com/ or http://theorygame.multiply.com/
4. Maribeth Daquilanea – http://www.dudsonline.com/index.html
5. GM Roland Agreda – http://www.xmodx.com/
6. Junelle Caravana – http://babsy.name/
7. Marie Claire Bretana – http://www.malditangpinay.com/
9. Alvin John Juliano – http://ohmyiloilo.wordpress.com/
10. Leomel Pasquin – http://totomel.wordpress.com/
11. Emmanuel Barrios – http://www.iloilohotels.info or http://www.mawesadobo.info
12. Sarah Jean Tillo – http://www.tsiken.com/
13. Rodrick Guarin – http://shurikenstuff.blogspot.com/
14. Kristine Buenavista – http://modernpatadyong.ph/
15. Gian Carlo Tamayo -http://earthlingstuffs.blogspot.com/
16. Ronald Medina -http://www.visita-iglesia.com/
17. JunnJun Mendoza – http://gigsilonggo.com, http://junnjunmendoza.com, http://www.youngentreps.co.cc, http://www.newsbits.co.cc, http://www.mymusicportal.co.cc, http://musikero.co.cc
The SM Foodcourt Marketing people has provided the following program schedule:
PROGRAM
Registration: 12:00 nn – 12:45 pm
Welcome Remarks: 1:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Food Pictorial: 1:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Food Tasting: 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm
Blogging: 2:15 pm – 3:00 pm
Awarding of Tokens & Raffle: 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
A sofa and some chairs will be provided for bloggers. If they want to live blog, electrical outlets will be provided and they can use the free wifi at SM City. Everyone is encouraged to take pictures of the food and publish these online.
In return for all these, SM Foodcourt is asking all bloggers to blog about the event, mention the names of restaurants and food stall tenants, and generally engage their readers to eat at SM Foodcourt.
Please come either in black or white outfit. Your cooperation is highly appreciated. Thank you!
Sincerely,
Claire Bretana
President
Iloilo Bloggers
http://tagailoilo.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-free-food-what-diet.html - finally finished writing it because i feel guilty after eating all that food!
So far the people who posted are:
1) Duds, as see on her comment
2) Claire, http://www.malditangpinay.com/live-blogging-at-the-food-bloggers-event-at-sm-city-iloilo-foodcourt/
3) Alvin, http://ohmyiloilo.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/sm-city-iloilos-food-bloggers-event/
4) Sarah, http://www.tsiken.com/food-bloggers-event/
5) Mawe, ...