Ang Dabawenyo

Up until awhile ago, 10 Davao bloggers had an impromptu get-together at 51 Coffee Shop. I was finally able to meet Andrew of Alleba Blog and Ria of MyDavaoCity.com. Also in attendance were Doc Jaime (From the Foreroom of My Cranium), Marc (Hoopaddict), Raine (Introspection), Jun M. (Wyzemoro), Dominique (village idiot savant), and Christian (Just Didn’t Make the News). Tope of Fwendz.com also made an appearance.

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Ever since I started meeting up with Davaoeño bloggers, I’ve come to find out a lot about SEO. Apparently, many bloggers here (or probably anywhere) are into search engine optimization as a way to make a few bucks. In my long absence from all things Web these past couple of years, I’ve not been able to keep up with Internet trends, so my idea of monetizing your blog was simply Google’s AdSense. Well, of course, apart from the traditional way, which is getting paid for writing. Read more »

Today, Marc Javellana, Dennis Agulo and I had a super mini-eyeball at 51 Coffee Shop. However, we were able to discuss the 1st Davao bloggers’ party. Actually mostly we talked about SEO stuff, goings-on in the local IT scene…. But we did get to agree on a proposed date for the party. 17 March 2007 (Saturday). How’s this sound, guys?

Suggestions for our party:

• Let’s have a few talks or presentations. For example, a talk on best practices for blog maintenance, etc.

• Let’s try to get sponsors for the food and the venue.
• We also invite Davaoeños who aren’t blogging yet but are interested to take it up. Also non-Davaoeños who happen to find themselves in Davao on the 17th of March.
• Dennis will run a contest — I’ll let him intro that himself. But let’s have a raffle as well, c/o sponsors.

More? Please post a comment to leave your suggesions.

Go Davao blogging!!!

Marc Javellana and I will be meeting up this Saturday, 3 February 2:00 PM, at 51 Coffee Shop. We’ve already started talking online about organizing a Davao bloggers’ party, and we thought it would be good to do a couple of eyeballs first, just to see how many we are out there. Jon Joaquin and Dennis Agulo might also be there.

I know it’s a very short notice, but if you can make it to this mini-eyeball on Saturday, please come. 51 Coffee Shop is located within the Victoria Plaza compound, beside MetroBank and Buffet Palace. P45 lang ang kape

Let’s meet up and get to know each other and talk about how we can make the upcoming blog party a hit! With limited time and resources, I don’t know if we can make it as bongga as the one in Makati… but we sure as hell can make it just as enjoyable!

Today I "met" a Davaoeña blogger, Raine — somebody should come up with a new verb to mean meeting someone online. I was googling for "davao bloggers" and I got hit with quite a few leads. Another good way of hooking up with like-minded people is by participating in mailing lists, fora, etc. And that’s how I met Raine, who blogs about life and the introspection that it causes her to be in (did I get that right, Raine?).

Raine has an interesting idea: to have a repository of Davao blogs. Something along the lines of, well, Bloglines. I guess what Raine means is for all Davao blogs to be accessible from one online location.

But what about offline? Wouldn’t it be awesome to have all of Davao’s bloggers together in one place at one time? Hmmm… hey, a blog party!! What do you think, guys?