February 24: FREE E-Commerce Website Development Briefing

Hello everyone. I got invited by the Korea-Philippines Information Technology Training Center (KORPHIL) and Posh Marketing Services to give a FREE briefing on E-Commerce Website Development this February 24, 2007 from 2 pm to 5 pm at KORPHIL located inside the Quezon City Polytechnic University Compound (near Mindanao Avenue), No. 673 Quirino Highway, San Bartolome, Novaliches, Quezon City

I shall be inviting club members to help me out in this event to discuss the following:

• E-Commerce Project Planning
• E-Commerce Website or Blog Set-Up
• Accepting Online Payment
• Web Marketing

Note that this briefing is FREE. Should you like to avail of snacks, just bring P50 pesos to cover the cost.

To sign-up, just send me an e-mail at digitalfilipino(at)yahoo.com with your name, company, address, and contact number. Thank you.

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.

February 28: Setting Up and Analyzing Website Traffic Statistics Report Hands-on Workshop

Due to request from SME and Corporate members of the DigitalFilipino.com Club, we shall be having a "Setting Up and Analyzing Website Traffic Statistics Report Hands-on Workshop" this February 28, Wednesday, from 1:30 to 5 pm. This will be held at Alfox Internet Cafe (beside Chowking), Kamuning Road, corner Edsa, Quezon City.

Topics include:

• Introduction to Website Traffic Statistics
• Using Website Traffic Statistics as an improvement guide
• Exploring various Website Traffic Statistics package
• Setting up Website Traffic Statistics
• Analyzing Website Traffic Statistics report

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 February 28 and confirm attendance for food count purposes.

We hope you can join. Thank you.

Thank you for attending the Online Payment Acceptance Workshop

Thank you so much to SME and Corporate members of the DigitalFilipino.com Club who took time to attend our Online Payment Acceptance Hands-On Tutorial last Saturday.

They got exposed to various forms of e-payment and set up an account in YOSSN as a case study. Special thanks to the following who took time to attend:

• Gallery 7 Online
• IT Group
• Acclaim Butterflies
• IPVG
• Yehey
• SLTCFI
• WorldPartner
• Laurus Enterprises

Thank you for the support!