January 18: Create an E-Newsletter Hands-on Workshop

Due to request from SME and Corporate members of the DigitalFilipino.com Club, we shall be having a Create an E-Newsletter Hands-on Workshop this January 18, Thursday, from 1:30 to 5 pm. This will be held at Alfox Internet Cafe (beside Chowking), Kamuning Road, corner Edsa, Quezon City.

Topics include:

1. Introduction and Examples of E-Newsletter
2. E-Newsletter Content Development
3. Archiving and generating revenue through advertisement
4. Tracking E-Newsletter read count and performance

SME members can send 2 representatives while Corporate members can send 3 representatives. Please confirm for food count purposes.

Interested non-members and individual members are requested to sign up as a SME or Corporate member prior to January 18 and confirm attendance for food count purposes.We hope you can join. Thank you.

January 5: Blogging and Social Networking Forum

The DigitalFilipino.com Club will be having its 26th networking event this January 5, 2007 Friday, 3:00 to 7:00 pm. The venue shall be at Microsoft Philippines, 16th floor, #6750 Ayala Avenue, Makati City (beside Shangri-la Hotel).

Our sincerest thanks to Microsoft Philippines for hosting our small get together.

This gathering is exclusive for DigitalFilipino.com Club members only and are requested to confirm attendance for food count purposes.

Agenda shall be as follows:

2:30 - 3:15 Registration
3:15 - 3:30 Introduction and updates by each club member
3:30 - 4:00 (Presentation by Jasper Jugan, Technology Evangelist-Windows Client, Microsoft Philippines)
4:00 - 4:30 Social computing and networking on the Internet (Sacha Chua)
4:30 - 5:00 Personal Blogging Experience (Noemi Lardizabal-Dado)
5:00 - 5:30 Professional Blogging Experience (J. Angelo Racoma)
5:30 - 6:00 Corporate Blogging Experience (Frank Holz)
6:00 - 7:00 Networking among members

Interested non-members are requested to sign up as a member prior to January 5 and confirm attendance for food count purposes.

There are three types of membership: Individual, SME, and Corporate. Thank you.

Support the 2007 Philippine Biotech Summit

Just like to let you know that DigitalFilipino got tapped as one of the organization affiliate for the 2007 Philippine Biotech Summit Venture Summit: The 3nd Annual Conference on Biotechnology Enterprise and Investment happening this January 10 to 12, 2007 at Ateneo Rockwell.

Note that DigitalFilipino list and club members who sign up using the registration form posted at http://www.e-commercephilippines.com/ shall be entitled to 10% discount.

I encourage you folks to support this event and see you there!

DigitalFilipino.com Web Awards is now online!

For the past 2 years, we've always expressed our support to the World Summit Awards. Time and time again, some of our club members regularly suggest the coming up of our own awards that is intended to create awareness as well about new websites online today and where winners are picked by club members themselves.

I decided then to pursue such once we reach our 100th active club member count for the year. We achieved that yesterday.

In this regard, the DigitalFilipino.com Web Awards is now online!

Thank you for attending the Website Enhancement Workshop

My sincerest thanks to Trabilis Travel & Tours and Gallery 7 Online for attending our Website Enhancement Workshop yesterday. It is through this simple knowledge sharing sessions where we can all grow.

Thanks as well to Abby Ongyanco Lim of Virramall.com and Jovel Cipriano of PinoyDelikasi.com for dropping by and helping out.

December 16: Website Enhancement Hands-on Workshop

Due to request from our SME and Corporate members of the DigitalFilipino.com Club, we shall be having a Website Enhancement Hands-on Workshop this December 16, Saturday, from 1:30 to 5 pm. This will be held at Alfox Internet Cafe (beside Chowking), Kamuning Road, corner Edsa, Quezon City.

Topics include:
1. Website Performance Self-Review
2. Website Enhancement Workshop (information architecture, search engine visibility, analytics, Internet advertising)

SME members can send 2 representatives while Corporate members can send 3 representatives. Please confirm for food count purposes and for the preparation of a US$50 Google AdWords voucher for use in the training.

Interested non-members and individual members are requested to sign up as a SME or Corporate member prior to December 16 and confirm attendance for food count purposes.
We hope you can join. Thank you.

Thanks for attending the Google AdSense and AdWords Workshop

My sincerest thanks to SME and Corporate members who attended our Google AdSense and AdWords Hands-On Tutorial. Special thanks to Aileen Apolo, Google Philippines Country Consultant for providing us with coupons that the students can use. I look forward in learning as well from the club members experience in using such tool.

Club members who attended the training are:

• Trabilis
• Virramall.com
• Yes IT Corporation
• Acclaim Butterflies
• RegaloService.com

The nice thing about having this training is that it allows us to exchange ideas and learn from one another. On my part, I get to listen to members' concern better and respond accordingly.

Thanks for attending the Web Marketing Forum!

The DigitalFilipino.com Club Web Marketing Forum last night was a success! Great thanks to all club members who attended and blogged about it.

Here are some blog coverage about it.

• Christmas with the Websites (Jay Frank De Jesus)
• Last Friday at Yehey.com’s Party and DigitalFilipino’s Seminar (Elymar AKA Jozzua)
• Yehey! celebrated 10 years… (Anne Roella Valla)
• Digitalfilipino’s Christmas Party (Abby Ongyanco-Lim)
• Digital Filipino WebMarketing (Wilson Chua)
• Web Marketing Forum (Manuel Viloria)
• Digitalfilipino's Website Marketing Forum (Aileen Apolo)
• Photo coverage (I encourage club members to email me their photos taken also for uploading in the photo gallery)

Thank you again for the support. If you have blogged about the event, do let me know so I can add you here.