Ang Dabawenyo

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!!!

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 get together in one place at one time? Hmmm… hey, a blog party!! What do you think, guys?