The iBlog5 Afterglow
Many thanks to the UP-ISP (JJ Dinisi, Hermie, Lemuel, and rest of the team), sponsors, speakers, volunteers, and participants for making iBlog5 a success. We had a lot of interesting challenges this year. At the start, I was worried about meeting the sponsor target to cover the cost of the event. Also wondered if there is some sort of fatigue already among bloggers due to increasing number of blogging forums and seminars organized by various groups. This made me even ponder last year if iBlog is still relevant or needed.
Thankfully, by April, all sponsor commitments started trickling in. We agreed that our main audience shall be the newbies who will appreciate the most what iBlog has to offer.
We were not expecting the event to be jampacked this year, around 279 attended, that made the venue look small. During the evening socials at Katips, around 80 attended, got the chance to exchange stories and ideas, asked on what contributed to this. The common answer was - this reflects the growing number of bloggers on various platforms (including Multiply and Friendster).
There are also two things that I'd like to apologize for:
(on a side note, I hope you can join the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs for 2009 Writing Project.)
For those who expressed interest about joining the bloggers for Philippines elections 2010 efforts, I'll be posting an activity soon. However, to get an automatic invitation from me, please join the Important Issues on Philippines 2010 Elections writing project.
Here are some of the blog posts I saw online and will continuously add to this. If you have a made a post, leave a comment and will add your link here.
Live stream feed last May 9
Blog posts
Thankfully, by April, all sponsor commitments started trickling in. We agreed that our main audience shall be the newbies who will appreciate the most what iBlog has to offer.
We were not expecting the event to be jampacked this year, around 279 attended, that made the venue look small. During the evening socials at Katips, around 80 attended, got the chance to exchange stories and ideas, asked on what contributed to this. The common answer was - this reflects the growing number of bloggers on various platforms (including Multiply and Friendster).
There are also two things that I'd like to apologize for:
- Food
In the past, we had so much registration online (more than 400 each year) and less than 200 show up at the event or no more than 150 at a time. As a result, we had so much food left-over in the past years. We decided to be conservative this year and decided to make it on a first-come first-serve basis. With the iBlog5 experience, we will definitely allocate more food for next year and advise as well of the cut-off like first 200 to show up at the event. - Q&A
We were not on time in starting the session that had a roll-over effect on the Q&A. At the same time, we would like to make iBlog5 as content-rich as possible. So for those of you who have questions to the speakers, I suggest getting in touch with them directly and I'm sure they will be more than happy to respond.
(on a side note, I hope you can join the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs for 2009 Writing Project.)
For those who expressed interest about joining the bloggers for Philippines elections 2010 efforts, I'll be posting an activity soon. However, to get an automatic invitation from me, please join the Important Issues on Philippines 2010 Elections writing project.
Here are some of the blog posts I saw online and will continuously add to this. If you have a made a post, leave a comment and will add your link here.
Live stream feed last May 9
- Blogging 101 by AJ and Mica 1/2 (2/2)
- Photo Blogging 101 by Faith and Fritz 1/2 (2/2)
- Mobile Blogging by Edwin 1/2 (2/2)
- Do's and Don'ts of Blogging by Benj and Juned 1/2 (2/2)
- Blog Promotion and Traffic Generation Strategies by Coy and Winston 1/2 (2/2)
- Legal Issues in Blogging by JJ
- COMELEC on Blogging and Bloggers by James Jimenez 1/2 (2/2)
- Corporate Blogging by Mannix Pabalan of AyosDito.ph
- Blog Marketing & Advertising insights by Jayvee
- Problogging by Fitz 1/2 (2/2)
- The Secret Behind Taking Your Blog to the Next Level by Anton
- iBlog Vlog: Photoblogger feeling Vlogger?!
- iBlog5: The 5th Philippine Blogging Summit
- RPs Blogging Community Preparing for the 2010 Polls (GMA News)
- iBlog5 (Sonnie)
- Interview on iBlog5, iBlog6, and the Top 10 Emerging Blogs Project (Carlo)
Blog posts
- iBlog5: Learn, learn, learn, and never stop learning (Flowell)
- To think that Timezone cards are useful
- iBlog5 - Things Learned from the Blogging Summit in the Philippines (Ronnie)
- I was at the iBlog5 Summit (Aileen)
- iBlog5: PhotoBlogging Discussion Complement (Fritz)
- iBlog5 Summit
- My iBlog5 Experience
- iBlog5: Bloggers are Mutants
- Chronicles of iBlog 5 (Jorich)
- iBlog5: The Philippine Blogging Summit Aftermath (Micaela)
- Bakla Goes to iBlog5 (AJ)
- iBlog5 tackles blogger's role in election (Patricia)
- iBlog5: Back to the Basics of Blogging (John)
- The iBlog5 Experience (Marhgil)
- iBlog 5: My first blogging event (Randy)
- My iBlog5 Experience (Maureen)
- The Thirsty Blogger Attends iBlog 5 (Fitz)
- Success of iBlog5: Congratulations (Gilbert)
- IBLOG5 and Taboo (Juned)
- Deconstructing the iBlog5 Summit (Fencesitter)
- How to blog about blogging (Tikisoka)
- Timeline of unreported noteworthy occurrences at the 5th Philippine Blogging Summit (V)
- The Secret in Taking Your Blog to the Next Level (Anton)
- The iBlog5 Experience (N.F. Trapa)
- COMELEC is PHAIL (Laya)
- iBlog5 is the 5th Philippine Blogging Summit (Jehzlau)
- Ukay-ukay Escapades at iBlog5! (Madz)
- Are you Evolving as a Blogger? (by Anton Diaz @ iBlog5) (Lawrence)
- Post iblog5 (Christa)
- My iBlog5: The 5th Philippine Blogging Summit Experience (Jeffrey)
- iBlog5 (Carl)
- Photoblogging 102, tequila shots, dancing and hulabaloo at iBlog5 (Poyt)
- Blogging for Bloggers (Rene)
- My iBlog5 Aftermath (Leira)
- iBlog Experience (Maria Katrina)
- iBlog5 5th Philippine Blogging Summit at UP Diliman (Tonyo)
- Top 5 Tips That Probloggers Will Usually Not Tell You About Making Money Online (Fitz)
- At iBlog5 (Arbet)
- Blogger Evolution and 4 Types of Bloggers (Carlo)
- iBlog5: So many bloggers… so little time… (Roy)
- 5th Philippine Blogging Summit (Benito)
- iBlog5 Thoughts (Regnard)
- Live Blogging at Iblog 5 | Pictures and Experience @ iblog 5 (Dexter)
- iBlog5: The 5th Philippine Blogging Summit (Jen)
- iBlog5: The 5th Philippine Blogging Summit (Rochelle)
- iBlog5 Summit and It’s Munificent Speakers (Ada)
- iblog5 - A Success (Mon)
- iBlog5, therefore I am (Kevin)
- iBlog5: A FabOUlous Event (Kring)
- The iBlog5 Summit (EdZee)
- iBlog5 Postscript - of Mobile Blogging and the Elections (Edwin)
- What I Learned From The iBlog5 Philippine Blogging Summit (Earth)
- I Blog 5 (Rommel)
- My iBlog5 Experience (Snow)
- iBlog5 Post Event Coverage and Reasons Why You Should Go to iBlog6 (Carlo)
- iBlog5- 5th Philippine Blogging Summit (Noemi)
- iBlog5: The Philippine Blogging Summit (Villa)
- iBlog5, and Coffee With Girl Friday (Judd)
- Blogging About My iBlog5 Experience (Louis)
- iBlog 5 (Niki)
- Ako Mismo a hot topic on iBlog5 (Lawrence)