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The WordCamp Ph 2010 is sporting a new look courtesy of our Co-Presentor WooThemes. WooThemes develops Premium WordPress Themes.

WooThemes was started by three designers: Adii from South Africa, Magnus from Norway and Mark from the UK. They currently work with a team of designers and developers that produce some of the best-looking, well-made and easy-to-use WordPress Premium Themes.

The WordCamp Philippines 2010 Site is using the Therapy Theme which suits our event colors, logo, and our site needs well.

WordCamp Ph 2010 Site

Take a look at WooThemes Premium Themes and find the right theme that will best fit your site’s look and functionality.

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Thank you WooThemes for being a WordCamp Ph 2010 Co-Presentor!

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I highlighted some of the practices and policies we have within the group, especially when relating, communicating, and dealing with other personalities and entities. I also showed some of our projects and events, the goals with which these were designed for, and the feedback and lessons we got from these.

I will be uploading the video of my talk along with some notes very soon.

If you have any comments and suggestions regarding this talk, please do share.

Cebu Blog Camp 2010

I am attending Cebu Blog Camp 2010. The event has a theme of “Blogging, Expressions, and Opportunities.”

The first speaker of the event is Mica Rodriguez, a blogger slash film maker from Dagupan. She will be talking about Blogging 101: Basics of Blogging. The talk is geared towards newbie bloggers and attendees who have yet to start their own blog. She will be focusing on the anatomy or parts of a blog post and what blogging platforms to use.

Google Country Consultant, Aileen Apolo – de Jesus will be discussing Blogging with Blogger and Adsense. She will tackle Blogger as a blogging platform, minor customizations one can do with his blog on Blogger, and how to install Adsense on Blogger.

Photoblogging and Video Blogging will be discussed by Cebuano blogger Evannjohn Mendoza. He will discuss the basics of photography and creating videos. Both topics will be aimed at how these can be used for blogging purposes.

DigitalFilipino.com founder and book author Janette Toral will be tackling Food for the Blogs: Great sources of blog information and resources. She will discuss online resources for topics, information, themes, plug ins and other vital needs of bloggers. She will also give us ideas on where to find topic ideas and sources.

And I am one of the speakers, too. I will be speaking on the topic of “Blogging in the Community, for the Community.” My talk will probably be broken down into two parts: (1) building a community of bloggers, and (2) the community of bloggers within the context of a bigger community. I will be speaking as President of Davao Bloggers, with inputs from my experiences with Avatar Media and as a blogger.

Philippine Blog Awards’ Juned Sunido will be talking about Blog Ethics, the dos and don’ts of being a good blogger. This topic is very useful not just for newbie bloggers, but also for advanced bloggers with years of blogging experience.

Stop, Look and Read: How to make netizens notice your blog is Jayvee Fernandez‘s topic. As a pro-blogger, he will share his knowledge on marketing one’s blog, increasing online presence, and driving traffic to the blog. This is a topic of interest for bloggers who want to move out of just personal blogging and into niche blogging or blogging for profit.

Tonyo Cruz will be discussing Blogging and Citizens’ Journalism. He will focus on empowering citizens to use their blogs as a tool for journalism.

Hans Koch will be speaking on WP Install — An SEO Perspective. He will share techniques on boosting WordPress blogs to its maximum potential and on how to optimize WordPress blogs for SEO purposes. This is a topic that would interest a lot of intermediate bloggers.

Finally, Wilson Ng will talk about Blogging: Personal Branding. This topic will help participants get ideas on how to make their own blog stand out and how they can use their blog and convert it into their own brand.

Interesting topics, yes? And a credible panel of speakers, IMHO. Personally, I am very much looking forward to the talks of Jayvee, Juned, and Wilson.

The Cebu Blog Camp 2010

is co-presented by

Gold Sponsors

Sponsor and Media Partner

Bronze Sponsors

Geiser Maclang Marketing Communications, Inc.

Custom WordPress Theme by Padd Solutions

South Florida Party Planner Magazine
Weddings, Quinceanera, Sweet Sixteen and Events Magazine

Winston Delawar Photography, a Premiere South Florida Wedding Photographer

Black Friday Deals by Jehzlau Concepts

Jupiter Suites – Free Internet and Breakfast Hotel in Makati

Media and Institution Partners

Mozilla

RCTV 36 – Official Online and TV Media Partner

Cebu Daily News – Official Print Media Partner

Blog4Reviews

Donors

Jaypee Habaradas of JaypeeOnline.net

Cebu Blog Camp 2010 is an event organized by a group of Cebu Bloggers.

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Here’s a tip for all you aspiring Pinoy bloggers out there, sign up with i.ph. i.ph is the perfect blog host for bloggers who want to have a personalized domain but don’t have the moolah for it.

Here’s a little step-by-step guide on how you can sign up for i.ph…

Step 1: Go to i.ph… type http://www.i.ph on your browser’s address bar or simply click on this link. Then, click on the Sign up now button!

Step 2: Fill up the online registration form.

After filling it up, you will see this…

Step 3: Log in to your email, and check your inbox.

(If the activation email is not in your inbox, check your bulk or spam folder.)

Open the actvitation email, and click on the activation link.

i.ph will then activate your account and blog.

Step 4: TADAAA…

You now have an i.ph account and blog!!! CONGRATULATIONS!

Now some tips and notes for maintaining your i.ph blog…

Your Menu

Your Dashboard

The Pop-out Writing Box where you compose your entries
(Take note of the visual editing buttons for formatting. )

This is how it looks like when you “Turn Edit ON”

And this is how my i.ph blog looked like after some minor editing and after I published my first post!!!

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I, myself, have experienced the highs and lows of following my blogs PRs. But while I understand (A BIT) what it is, a lot still don’t quite get what it is and what it means.

Enter Blogie Robillo…

It’s quite a simple view and explanation of what Google PR is. We do not mean to misinterpret or misrepresent Google or Google Page Rank. This is how we see it and how we interpret it. I hope we clarified things for people (like me) who never really understood what PR is.