1. BLOGGING Basics 101 Introduction to Blogging & Setting it Up! <CebuinIT – UP TBI, Training Room> President Roxas & S. Cabahug St., Mabolo, Cebu City It’s not just for opinionated and bored people In cooperation with

5. Filipino’s are Enthusiastic Digital Consumers 28M Filipinos are estimated to be connected. That’s close to 1 out of 3 people. 81% are below 30 years old Almost 11M online gamers 1# in Video Consumption 66% have started/created a blog 90% have read a blog 42% regular blog readers 93% Part of a social network – 16.2M active in Facebook Estimated 40% of handsets are 2.5G/3G enabled 1 Billion SMS sent per day Almost 78M Filipinos are on mobile Close to 5M Mobile Internet Users About 600,000 Blogs At least a Million Blog Readers

6. People long for personal experience & authenticity..

7. Source: Digital Philippines 2011 ~ Yahoo!-Nielsen Net Index

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11. Blog post

12. Archiving

13. Interaction/Feedback/Forum

14. RSS Feed/Subscription

16. Blog Platform

17. A Participatory Culture or a “Culture of Sharing” – Sharing and participating online is spreading in the digital world ~ An emerging creative class

18. Blogs are essentially for Personal Sharing

19. Blogs for Specific or Niche News

20. Blogs for Business use

21. Blogs for Politics & Governance

22. Blogs for Advocacy and Development

23. Blogs for Advocacy and Development

24. Blogs for Tourism, Culture and Heritage

25. Information for Local Places, different parts of the Philippines 7,100+ Islands A Great Need / Demand for Locally Generated Online Content

26. Kabang Falls in Budlaan, Talamban, Cebu =) Find secrets in the city, Share Hidden Gems right in the backyards in Cebu

27. Blogs for Teaching and Learning Technologies do NOT change teaching & learning, but can help us to introduce new methodologies and learning environments

28. Blogging benefits & opportunities? Blog talks to people openly , sincerely and authentically – and we get to talk back .

35. 7: ICT-Information & Communications Technologies

36. 8: Jobs ~ Freelance Outsourcing or HR Sourcing

37. 9: Customer Relations & Acquisition

38. FUTURE SIGHT Think about your FUTURE Clients “ Those who are born today and belong to the Internet Generation will continue to adapt, use and look for more Social Media Applications; be it another social network, Blogs, and the like; it doesn’t matter whether you are late adopters, because late adoption is still ADOPTION nonetheless. Therefore, those who grew up using these technologies will definitely still use MORE in the near or distant future.. Will you choose to prepare now or procrastinate later? ” -Vernon Joseph Go =P

39. LET’S SET-UP!!!>> Getting started

40. [THE BLOG] How do we make this work?

45. Design is secondary but still necessary..

46. It’s all about the people and connecting. It’s a constant learning process though.. So Enjoy :-) Let your passion shape your Blog. Happy blogging!

48. GEOHMEDIA.COM {Industrial Engineer} [Emerging Media Social Strategist] +639228187103 [email_address] investinghabits.com www.vernongo.com www.iknowryt.com www.eventgeek.net tweet.me @VernonGo or @geohmedia Spring Woods Subd. Blk.14 Lot 5 Phase 2 , Minglanilla, Cebu, Philippines Vernon Joseph M. Go “ What we do best, is share our enthusiasm.”