June 11: E-Commerce Law 10th Year Celebration

This coming June 11, the Department of Trade and Industry E-Commerce Office and DigitalFilipino Club will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of the E-Commerce Law (Republic Act 8792) at Room C of the Philippine Trade & Training Center, Gil Puyat Avenue corner Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City (beside World Trade Center) from 1 pm to 5 pm.

DigitalFilipino Club members are welcome to attend this event noting the following slots:

• Corporate member - 3 representatives
  
• SME member - 2 representatives
  
• Individual member (non-transferable)

Tentative agenda as follows (subject to change):

12:30 to 1:30 registration
1:30 to 1:45 Welcome Remarks
1:45 to 2:15 State of E-Commerce in Government
2:15 to 2:45 State of E-Commerce from the Private Sector
2:45 to 3:00 Areas of Cooperation declaration and signing
3:00 onwards Other matters, Networking, Raffle

Club members attending have an opportunity to present 5 slides during the networking portion and talk about what they do or share updates.

Club members are requested to confirm their attendance ahead of time for food count purposes.

E-Commerce, SEO, Blogging, Social Networks, Web Operations Hands-on Workshop

All DigitalFilipino.com Club members are invited to attend the forthcoming E-Commerce Hands-on Workshop series this July 23, 25, 29, 31, and August 5 at the Alfox Internet Cafe (beside Chowking), Kamuning Road, corner Edsa, Quezon City.

Whether you are preparing a holiday season campaign or simply improving your website, I'm certain that this can be useful to your needs.

DigitalFilipino.com Club SME members can send 1 representative while Corporate members can send 2 representatives.

Individual club members can attend a one-day (or two half-day) session. Please confirm for food count purposes.

The training program shall be as follows:

July 23: E-Commerce Project Planning

• E-Commerce Purchasing Trends
  
• Developing a requirements document
  
• Identifying needs
• Setting goals
• Features list (prioritization)
• User identification and needs
• Competition identification
• Direct
• Indirect
• Keyword performers
  
• Source of revenue
• Content plan
• Project Plan creation
  

July 25: Internet, SEO, and Social Media Marketing Workshop

• 9:00 - 12:00 E-Mail / Newsletter Marketing
  
• Introduction to E-Mail Marketing
• Components of an E-Mail Marketing Campaign
• Hands-on exercise
• Introduction to Newsletter Creation
• Creating a newsletter
• Hands-on exercise
  
• 1:00 - 3:00 Search Engine Marketing
  
• Search engine optimization
• Keyword research
• Keyword placement in web site or blog
• Content is key
• Writing good titles, description, and articles
• Re-directing pages
• Sitemap creation
• RSS creation
• 3:00 - 5:00 Social Media, Lifestreaming, Paid Campaigns for promotion
  
• Social Network
• Creating a campaign page in a social network site (Facebook, Multiply, Friendster, MySpace).
  
• Social Media
• Lifestreaming
  
• Internet Advertising (paid placements)
  

July 29: Blogging Workshop

• 9:00 - 12:00 Blogging 101 and Set-Up
  
• Introduction to Blogging
• Type of blogs highlighting the popular ones
• Platform
• Blog creation
  
• Blog ethics
  
• Copyright
  
• Advertising
  
• Re-publishing
• Blog content
• Purpose
• Topic tracking
• Writing
• Monitoring performance
  
• 1:00 - 5:00 Blog Promotion and Marketing
• Ping
• Advertising
• Social bookmarks, networks, and media
  
• Contests
• Google Reader
• Comments

July 31: Accepting Payments Online

• 9:00 - 12:00 Introduction to Online Payments
  
• Ways to accept payments online
• Demo of online payment systems (email billing, web-based payment, mobile payments)
• 1:00 - 5:00
  
• Evaluating online and mobile payment providers (comparative analysis)
• Fraud detection

August 5: Improving Website Performance and Navigation

• 9:00 - 12:00 Improving Web Site Performance
  
• Factors that cause slow-loading Web Sites
• 14 rules for fast website performance
• Hands-on exercise
• 1:00 - 5:00 Improving Web Navigation
  
• Web navigation problems
• Mechanisms and type of web navigation
• Improving web navigation design
• Hands-on exercise
  

All training materials shall be posted at the club member site and also at our social network for online interactive learning purposes.

Interested non-members are requested to sign up as an Individual, SME, or Corporate member prior to the workshop and confirm attendance for food count purposes.

Get a free delegate pass: Social Networking and eBusiness Conference Philippines 2008

Fiera de Manila Inc. and the DigitalFilipino.com Club just collaborated to organize the Social Networking and eBusiness Conference Philippines 2008. This will be held at Hotel Intercontinental, Ayala Avenue, Makati City on May 20 and 21, 2008.

We are giving away two (2) delegates pass to this event.

I'll be inviting more companies to contribute and increase the number of delegate passes to be given out in the weeks to come. Parties interested can e-mail me at digitalfilipino (at) gmail (dot) com. Those who'll be giving passes, shall be properly recognized here and be cited in one of our weekly updates.

Should you like to participate and hope to get one of the passes, this is what you have to do:

1. Make a blog entry about the Social Networking and eBusiness Conference Philippines 2008 and cite why you like to attend this two-day event.
   
   
2. Your blog post must have a link to Social Networking and eBusiness Conference Philippines 2008 at http://socialnetworkphilippines.blogspot.com.
   
   
3. Post a comment to this blog entry and give me the url link where your entry can be found.
   

Deadline for submission of entries is on May 8, 2008. The following are the entries we've received to date. This is updated weekly:

• DigitalFilipino Social Networking & eBiz Confab
  
• My Social Networking Scrap
  
• Social Networking and eBusiness
• Social Networking and eBusiness Conference Philippines 2008
• Social Networking: Bridging its way to eBusiness
• Why we should be at the Social Networking and eBusiness Conference
• Social Networking and eBusiness Conference 2008
  

On May 9, Fiera de Manila and passes donors shall review the submissions and picked their most-liked post.

The winner of the two passes shall be posted here on May 10. I hope you can join and see you at the Social Networking and eBusiness Conference Philippines 2008!

E-Commerce for Entrepreneurs Book: Coming Soon!

Many thanks to everyone who supported the DigitalFilipino E-Commerce Workshop E-Book (2004). An updated edition is coming out, E-Commerce for Entrepreneurs.

Will post more information soon.