The past week has been very busy as I joined my first roadshow which had us flying to Davao in Mindanao, Cebu in Central Visayas and back again to Manila for DigitalFilipino.com Club‘s bloggers’ networking events. Here, I witnessed first-hand “Blogger Power” and the charisma of Ms. InfluentialBlogger herself, Janette Toral, to pull in the numbers.
It was my first time to join blogger events “on a mass scale,” with the exception of the Blog Awards, and I liked it. It was great to know the faces behind the blogs, and I like the part where everyone introduces themselves. There’s bound to be an interesting story on how one got to blog, or what one has gained from it so far. It’s my first exposure to DigitalFilipino and I think am joining it soon, haha.
Our first stop was the boom city of Davao, home of the Mindanao Bloggers. Close to 100 bloggers had fun in PAGCOR-Davao’s Pantawan Hall where we ate and drank the night away, capped by a friendly tournament of Texas Hold ‘Em Poker.
At the Teatro Casino party in PAGCOR-Cebu, members of the Cebu Bloggers Society came in identical “Blogger Ko Bai!” shirts which showed their complete solidarity. Couldn’t resist buying one.
That’s Kevin Ray Chua , author of the Sen. Mar Roxas for 2010 blog, bringing his own laptop to the dinner table, haha.
But I liked best the gathering Manila (PAGCOR-Paranaque, to be exact) because this is where most of my friends are, and I feel most at home here. Still, it was nice to be acquainted with the bloggers I saw for the first time…..
Like the Reyna Elena herself, one of the most popular overseas Pinoy bloggers who was on vacation all the way from the US of A. Reyna’s field is in investments, but still hopes to settle in the homeland someday. We are shown here with Angela of HeyoKity.
Kodakan galore! Am quite fond of these two young girls, Ada and Sabrina, who do kick-ass designs for Friendster blogs. In fact, their vixenart.net (Alexa rank: 8.703..whew!) should be on the list of the Top 100 Blogs, if only because…. 😀 Photo grabbed from Jehzlau.
Top Blogger Jehzeel Laurente with Belo girl Micamyx and Carl of WebMagazine. Jehzeel brought along his mother who proudly showed us photos of her one and only boy.
Maki Eduardo, Dine Racoma, a publicist from Full Circle Events, and Fitz Villafuerte of Ready To Be Rich.
Angel Cuala, the Fatherblogger and my fellow Visayan who is behind Bloggista.com.
AJ Matela, Fritz Tentativa, and Jonas Diego were in the house!
Other bloggers in attendance: Juned Sonido, Sonnie Santos, Azrael Coladilla, Suzaku Lace, Robert D.C. Reyes, Ederic Eder, Tonyo Cruz, Ed Arevalo, the PAGCOR web whiz Gary Viray , Eugene Villar and many others… there were more than a hundred people in the room.
Had a nice time, till the next time folks!
hahahaa! ang cute ng blogger ko bai t-shirt! 😀 parang wow.. astig! 😀
astig ka ate! napuntahan mo lahat ng gatherings nationwide!!! waaaaaaaaaaaaa!
hello annalyn, nice to have met you at the Digital Filipino manila event.ang saya naman, napuntahan mo pala lahat.cool! 🙂
HI annalyn. Nice meeting you. Hehe, uu nga no, astig yung Blogger Ko Bai t-shirt, hmmm, maka hingi nga. hehehe.
Hehehe! Hiniram ko lang yang laptop kasi tinatapos ko pa yung presentation ko about Cebu Bloggers Society.
@jehzlau – pwede kang umorder ng t-shirt namin… just e-mail me so that I can refer you to our t-shirt production chief. 🙂
i’d say that was filled with surprises! hahaha! considering that i frequent your blog from many months back or kung kelan man yung travel ka sa macau and then voila, you’re in front of me! hahaha! it was really nice meeting you!
and i did missed Sonny in my write up ahaha!
Hi Jehzeel… nakakapagod kaya 😀
@Bloggista.. P200 pesos lang po, haha. pero pag taga Cebu ka, baka may discount
Hey Reynz, glad to finally meet you in person. I was expecting a diamond-studded crown, siguro tinanggal mo, baka ma-snatch sa Maynila, hehehe
It must have been a great event.
Heyyy, please join next time Rach… you and the moms 😉
Hello Ajay. Thank you for all the support sa roadshow. I’m glad that you enjoyed it too. =)
hehehe! iniwan ko sa trunk nang kotse ko! dumaan pa kasi kami sa MOA, bagong sulda pa naman baka nga ma-isnatch hehehe!
Hi Janette, walang anuman. I was duly impressed…..
Would have loved to take a peek at your queenly head gear Reynz, hahaha
Come back here to Cebu 🙂
Miss Annalyn! OMG, pinuntahan niyo pala lahat! Sana ako din makapagtravel ng ganyan kasi never pa ako nakasakay ng barko or ng airplane. Hehehe :p
Nakakamiss ang event na ito. Sana meron ulit next year. Weee!!
I just stumbled your post after weeks! Hehehe…
Ka-ingit ka, you’ve been throughout the event in circles!
Parang bloghopping!
Nice to meet you there!
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