Call for speakers: DigitalFilipino E-Commerce Summit

Doing E-Commerce for Real!

We are now gearing up for the 1st annual DigitalFilipino E-Commerce Summit 2009. This will be an intensive 2-day educational seminar on e-commerce strategies scheduled to take place on November 12 & 13, 2009 at the Hotel Intercontinental, Makati City.

If you had a great e-commerce experience in 2009 that you believe can be imparted as a competitive lessons learned in this conference, I will very much appreciate if you can contact me with your suggested topic that includes the following:

• Topic title
• Description
• Case study (studies) / lessons learned to be imparted

If your topic gets chosen, I will contact you right away. In addition, sponsorship opportunities are available and I can send you more details if you are interested.

Conference Program

Attendees to this event can expect a highly-interactive session with e-commerce players and industry practitioners. Topics in the agenda includes (subject to change):

November 12 (Day 1):

• Internet and mobile commerce market growth.
• Payment programs and platforms catering from mainstream to unbanked market segments.
• Executing e-commerce marketing campaigns and selling through:
  - community websites
  - e-mail autoresponder / newsletter
  - social networks
  - search engines
  - blogs


• Making self-service advertising platforms work for you.
• Usability experience: what makes an online visitor purchase?
• Improving e-commerce website performance
• Tracking website analytics and e-commerce sales

November 13 (Day 2):

• Internet and mobile banking growth.
• E-Commerce policies to promote e-commerce growth and those that protect both merchant and consumer.
• E-Government transactions growth.
• Making e-commerce secure against fraud.
• E-Commerce as a viable retail market outlet for SMEs
• New technologies to make e-commerce easier
• PLUS! The summit will be the venue for recognition of the top Philippine E-Commerce sites as DigitalFilipino.com will opens its nomination for the 3rd DigitalFilipino Web Awards this August.

Free conference pass to DigitalFilipino Club members:

• Individual members (1 day, participate themselves, no proxy)
• SME members (1 representative per day)
• Corporate members (2 representatives per day)

Additional club member and sponsor delegates are entitled to 15% discount. Register today to confirm your seats!

Website Competitive Evaluation Workshop

All DigitalFilipino.com Club members are invited to attend the forthcoming Website Competitive Evaluation Hands-on Workshop this October 27 and 28 at the Alfox Internet Cafe (beside Chowking), Kamuning Road, corner Edsa, Quezon City from 9 am to 5 pm.

There will also be a meeting session this October 24 at Bo's Coffee Shop, Ayala Center, Cebu City 10 am to 12 noon for our Cebu-based club members.

Those who are into website enhancement or project planning may find this workshop useful. Club members have the option to only attend either day. However, attending both days will further reinforce what will be learned. This is also to support the judging stage for the DigitalFilipino.com Web Awards.

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

Individual club members can attend a one-day session. Please confirm for food count purposes.

The training program shall be as follows:

• Website Competitive Evaluation
• Search engine ranking
  
• keyword strength
• Website popularity
  
• page strength
• traffic
• Content analysis
  
• mind map
• Website structure
• Website performance
  
• What makes a great website
• DigitalFilipino Web Awards
• Judging criteria
• Assignment of categories

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

Several of our club members in Davao attended the session last October 21, at Arturo's Bed and Dine.

We also had a briefing in Cebu where two of our club members joined at Bo's Coffee Shop Ayala Center last October 24.

April 27: DigitalFilipino Web Awards Ceremony and Networking

The DigitalFilipino.com Web Awards will be having its awards ceremony this Friday, 9 am to 3 pm, April 27, 2007. This will be held at the Penthouse of Board of Investments, Gil Puyat Avenue (corner Paseo De Roxas), Makati City.
We encourage club members to take advantage of this event and mingle with the owners or representatives of the thirty-one websites we will be honoring during this event. We also welcome any help in this regard from handling the registration, issuing of name tags, be assigned to take care of several winners, food distribution, trophy handling, hosting the programme, talking to the press, among others. Raffle contribution and additional prizes will be more than welcome as well.

The agenda of the awards are as follows:

8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome remarks - What makes a great website?

9:15 - 10:30 Winners announcement (Apparel/Fashion, Art, Association / Organization, Auction / Shopping Portal, Automotive, Beauty, Blog - Personal, Blog - Professional, Books,Community, Computer/Consumer Electronics, Consumer Banking/Bills Payment, Corporate / Professional, Education, Food, Games)

10:30 - 10:45 Promoting your business online (Aileen Apolo, Google)

10:45 - 12:15 Winners announcement (Gifts, Government, Home Furnishings, Insurance, Music/Movie/Film, Newspaper, Pharmaceuticals, Podcast, Politics, Real Estate, Services, Social Networking, Telecom / Value Added Services, Tourism, Travel)

12:15 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 2:00 The APEC Digital Opportunity Center (ADOC) Award (Guest Speaker from TECO)

• ADOC ICT Award 3rd Place (Special prize)
• ADOC ICT Award 2nd Place (Special prize)
• ADOC ICT Award 1st Place (ADOC Week participation on July 24 to 27, 2007 in Taiwan and special prize)

2:00 - 2:30 Closing and Group Picture

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

Interested non-members are requested to sign up as a member prior to April 27 and confirm attendance for food count purposes.

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

We hope you can join. Thank you.

April 20: Website Evaluation Workshop

We are now reaching the climax of the DigitalFilipino.com Web Awards as we move into the final judging stage this Friday, 9 am, April 20, 2007. This will be held at Alfox Internet Cafe (beside Chowking), Kamuning Road, corner Edsa, Quezon City.

Agenda as follows:

• Intro on what makes a great website
• Judging criteria
• Assignment of categories

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

New opportunities, lucky charms, and political campaign season

I am now in the process of scheduling a regular club member eyeball soon. Will post the announcement soon. Last day for casting your nomination in the DigitalFilipino.com Web Awards is today.

I'm still looking for 30 more club members to join our advertising revenue program. Some updates from some of our members.

Manuel Viloria shared a new ranking model by the Yahoo Search Marketing group that allows advertisers to rank highly as a result of both their bid prices, and the quality of their ads.

Gwen Nava gave an overview on the basics of business process outsourcing.

Dennis Rito posted interesting tips and tidbits on photography as a business.

Noemi Lardizabal Dado shared what does Chinese Zodiac Sign Lucky Pig Charm means. My daughter should check this out.

Gallery 7 Digital Studio announced the winner of their Share your Valentine Story contest.

Marc Javellana talked about his excitement on the upcoming Davao Bloggers party. Being one of the culprits of this upcoming event, I'm all out support for it. (si Blogie pa!)

Aileen Apolo announced the Gmail open sign-up and points us to videos as well on the advantages of Gmail.

Abby Ongyangco Lim is now into technical analysis on financial markets.

J Angelo Racoma gave up on being referred to as a problogger and ask peers in the blogosphere to help out a fellow Pinoy blogger.

Jay Frank De Jesus dicussed top 10 meals for those on a budget.

Oliver Robillo shared a meet up with former club member Roel Hernandez.

Peachy Herrin blogs about Vic Magsaysay for Senator.

Stephanie Caragos posted some thoughts about on-the-job trainees applying at Syntactics.

Wilson believes that Vista is worth the wait.

Many thanks also to club members who gave a link to our Ituloy AngSulong competition entry. Your support is very much appreciated. I hope we'll make it.

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!