Just when I thought I’d have to start from scratch for my blog to work when my brilliant mind found a way to make it work with a simple php code. ha! I know I am brilliant and I’ll be making a separate entry on that.

Oh well. Thursday, October 23, 2008. The DigitalFilipino Club spearheaded by Janette Toral made their presence felt in Cebu city as they held their Cebu City Fellowship night at Teatro Casino of Waterfront Hotel, Lahug, Cebu City.

The night started with a sumptuous buffet courtesy of The Port Seafood Restaurant. While everyone was busy chewing up their food - haha! we had the chance to introduce ourselves and our blogs. A number of bloggers, SEO Specialists, Web Designers, Web Developers, Forum Members and Moderators, and even Web Site Owners were there to support the event.

Janette presented interesting topics and ideas through the projector of which I had a hard time reading as my eyes are getting old. Haha! She also presented the Top 100 Blogs in Ratified for 2008 of which some of my blogging / plurk / twitter friends were included. Some of which are Winston, Kevin, Helga, McBilly, Victor Villanueva, and Jehz. Oh well, hats off to you guys!

It was funny though some “ghost writers” introduced themselves as such when they’re supposed to be “ghosts” - wahaha! They just defeated their purpose of being “ghosts” Anyway, most of the Cebu Blogger Society Members were there to grace the event - and in their awesome T-Shirt printed with “Blogger ko bai!” with the Cebu Bloggers Society Official URL - www.cebubloggers.com.

The night was still young when I, together with my colleague - Debbie of Jabberedonion.com, had to gracefully exit the fellowship night as ”Duty Calls.” So sad. So sad that I had to leave one of my closest friend Kristine of StyleCebu.com and TheGlamarazzi.com. Sorry Tin…peace!

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I just can’t believe another year passed through my eyes. Last year, I was in Bohol celebrating my birthday with my colleagues and today - exactly a year after - I am staring on my office PC reading all the mails at the same time plurking and twittering! LOL.

Anyway, before I go and celebrate my beerday, I mean birthday today let me just pour in 10 things I’ve learned through the years.

1. Never trust anyone except the one above.
2. Friends come in different packages.
3. It’s not the paycheck that matters but the knowledge you learn.
4. Attitude supercedes Altitude.
5. Patience will always and always be a virtue.
6. Love will always fade.
7. Your Family will always be your savior
8. There’s no such thing as secrets.
9. The Greatest BFF is yourself.
10. Life is short so live it as if it’s your last

 To All Thank you…

Oh well, we were about 15 bloggers (I’ll update this entry as soon as the list of attendees is published) who attended the meetup. We’ve discussed a lot of stuff and I’m not sure if I’ve understood them all, all I know is I paid 170php for the Cebu Bloggers T-Shirt (Which reminds me X still owe me 30pesos). Lol-ing.

It was almost 7pm when everybody’s tired and hungry then came McBilly and Winston - the saviors, to the rescue. Lol.

Next stop, McDonalds IT Park.

More Photos here. 

Thanks to McBilly and Winston for the Burger!

Sa uulitin…

Anyway, here’s an update. Below is the Cebu Bloggers present during the meetup.

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Great news to all Cebu and Visayas based Bloggers. The DigitalFilipino.com Club is coming to Cebu City for a networking event. E-commerce industry players and bloggers will be exchanging ideas and updates during this event.

This event will be on October 23, 2008, Thursday, 6-11pm at Waterfront Hotel and Casino, Lahug Cebu City. PAGCOR will be sponsoring this event.

6:00 - 7:00pm : Registration and Dinner
7:00 - 7:30pm : Guest Introduction and Plugs
7:30 - 8:00pm : Updates from Janette Toral

• DigitalFilipino Web Awards 2008
• DigitalFilipino.com Club Updates (online workshop and other efforts)
• Ratified.org Philippines Top 100 Blogs 2008 (blogs that had big moves in 2008)

8:00 - 8:30pm : PAGCOR launch Internet/E-Commerce project
8:30 - onwards : Raffle, Networking, Games

All Bloggers are welcome to attend this event and it’s absolutely free!

You may leave your comments on this post with your name and blog url OR you may visit BatangYagit’s Blog to register. The complete list is here.

See y’all there! 

A few hours before I leave Cebu I got this message from The Visayas Bloggers Google Group regarding the launch of a blog contest which we talked about during the First Cebu/Visayas Bloggers Meet-up.

Well, here goes…

Objective: To let a hundred Cebu Blogs bloom.

1.   The blogger has to create a new blog about Cebu.  Existing blogs with already entries or traffic are not allowed. The blog may be self-hosted, or it maybe in any of the publicly available free sites like Blogger.com, MSN LiveSpaces.com, or Wordpress.com

2.   It should be a new blog which will have a PageRank of 0 in Google, and 0 authority as according to Blog Authority, Technorati.

3.   The blogger should register at the official website: www.ccebu.net/mandaue

4.   Upon approval, he/she should do the following (this will also be provided) :

o    Insert a code that will enable a statcounter, which will count the number of unique visitors and total them.

o    Insert a code that will enable the blog to carry the blogroll of all the other accepted contestants.  That means all official blogs will carry a link to all other Cebu Blog contestants.

o    The blogs may also be asked to carry the logos of the sponsors of the Mandaue Business Month.

o    Other than the above, the Cebu blogs are free to add whatever widgets, advertisements, or add-ons that they feel will add to the value of the blog or to their own income.  However, please do note that a blog with overwhelming clutter may earn less points in the theme and overall aesthetics category.

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