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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Palawan: July 5 to 7: E-Commerce / Digital Marketing Business Model Requirements Development and Design Review

The DigitalFilipino Club will be having its second out-of-town workshop session for club members this July 5 to 7 at Palawan. Venue of this activity will be at Secret Paradise Resort, Turtle Bay, Palawan.

The E-Commerce / Digital Marketing Business Model Requirements Development and Design Review gives participants the opportunity to dive through a business idea by understanding the customer better, improving ideas further, develop and present user scenarios, and let the business idea go through strategic review using SWOT and Blue Ocean methods.

Furthermore, the project is concretized further by developing a project Vision and Scope that shall be used for getting project sign-off and in building it.

Secret Paradise Resort - Turtle Bay, Palawan The following is the itinerary to be followed:

July 5
Arrival at Puerto Princesa Palawan airport. Please take the FIRST flight to Palawan. Some airline options available: (Please book early. For your return trip, if you are joining us on July 7, please take the last flight.)


Meet-up for road trip to Port Barton (location to be given to folks joining this activity)

Proceed to Secret Paradise Resort (more photos about the location) and check-in. Room sharing arrangements (3 to 4 persons per room) will be made among club members.

We expect to arrive before noon at the location. Participants will be given time to rest and do leisure activities.

Workshop starts at 2 PM
  • Creating a customer centric business model design
  • Understanding the customer (empathy map)
  • Brainstorming ideas
  • Storytelling the business model
Games and beach activities
Dinner

July 6

Morning mountain trekking / beach activities

8 AM : Breakfast / workshop proper

  • Creating user scenarios
  • Strategy assessment: SWOT / Blue Ocean
  • Creation of Vision and Scope 
Games and beach activities
Dinner

July 7

Morning mountain trekking / beach activities

8 AM : Breakfast / workshop proper
  • Presentation of Business Model Requirements Design
11 AM Check-out / Return to Puerto Princesa

Lunch / Puerto Princesa Tour / Airport

Return to Manila

Club members interested to participate should note of the following slots:
  • Corporate member - 3 slots and can attend for 3 days 
  • SME member - 2 slots and can attend for 3 days
  • Individual member - 1 day session (not transferrable). Discounted rate of P2,000 for the remaining 2 days.
  • Non-members can attend this 3-days workshop for P15,000. (To avail of the transportation, accommodation and meals, please add the rate indicated below)
  • For one-day only, the fee is P6,000 per day. (To avail of the transportation, accommodation and meals, please add the rate indicated below)
To reserve your slot, please contact Janette Toral. Please confirm on or before June 27.

Each participant confirming need to pay a fee of P3000 (per person) to cover transportation, hotel, and meals cost. (Should you like to pay for your own meals, kindly pay P2000 instead.)

Club members who are not updated with their membership fee payment need to process their fees prior to the activity.

Friday, June 15, 2012

June 25 to July 26: DigitalFilipino Club joins FITFIL Fitness Boot Camp

The DigitalFilipino Club is joining the FITFIL Fitness Boot Camp Manila scheduled this June 25 to July 26 (6:00 to 8:00 pm every Monday-Wednesday-Friday) at Bonifacio Global City High Street Grounds, Taguig City.

DigitalFilipino Club Members can get subsidized slots at the following rates. Regular rate is at P1000 per person.
With the popularity of the Internet and telecommuting, a big chunk of our time gets spent working online. We get busier virtually and oftentimes neglect our health. As a result, a growing number of people in our industry segment are not fit. That includes me.

After going through a 1-month Immuvit MetaFit challenge with Coach Jim Saret, I was able to experience improvement in terms of stamina, agility, and gradually losing weight in the process.

   

 The FITFIL Fitness Boot Camp has a very successful run in Cebu and am already looking forward to its Manila leg. However, it will be great if club members like you will also be able to enjoy the program and experience the benefits first-hand.

  To reserve your slot, please contact Janette Toral.

Monday, June 11, 2012

June 25, 26, 28, 29: Deploying a Large Scale Site using WordPress


The DigitalFilipino.com Club will be having a workshop on "Deploying a Large Scale Site using WordPress" this June 25, 26, 28 and 29, 2012 from 9 am to 4:30 pm at Room 207, Ateneo De Manila University, #20 Rockwell Drive, Rockwell Center, Makati City. 

Target participants are entrepreneurs and web developers who would like to learn how to deploy a large scale site using WordPress. Large scale site, for this training scope, are sites that have no less than 1 million page views a month.

DigitalFilipino Club Members are entitled to the following free slots:
  • Corporate member - 2 slots and can attend the whole training 
  • SME member - 1 slot and can attend the whole training
  • Individual member - 1 day session (not transferrable). Discounted rate of P2,000 per day for the remaining days.
  • Non-members can attend this 4-days workshop for P12,000. (pay through Paypal) 
  • For one-day only, the fee is P3,000 per day.

This workshop will discuss:
  1. Planning your site components
  2. WordPress installation and set-up
  3. Plug-ins management
  4. Securing your WordPress site
  5. Server management
Participants are requested to bring their own laptop. The venue has wi-fi Internet access. However, bringing of back-up Internet access gadget is encouraged. Note that food is not included in this training.

Day 1: Planning your site components

This will help the participant plan their large-scale site and the necessary components.
  • Simple or multi-site
  • Shared hosting or dedicated
  • Membership site
  • E-Commerce site
  • Migration from a custom content management system to WordPress
WordPress installation notes
  • Options for installation
  • Settings
  • User account management

Day 2 Plug-in management
    • Theme framework creation
    • Mobile site creation
    • Plug-ins 
      • selection
      • customization
      • development
      • security
      • error handling
    Day 3 Security management
      • Comments and spam handling
      • Login security
      • File directory protection
      • Log review
      Day 4 Server (dedicated) management
        • Database optimization
        • Server optimization
        • Site speed optimization