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If you want to read on the highlights of iBlog6 Day 1 Morning Session, please click the link provided.

For the second day of the event, I expect a lot of familiar faces to come at the iBlog6. Of course, we will probably see more cliques and groups of bloggers tomorrow as the iBlog6 culminates. I also hope that I would still be able to get a shirt for this year, or possibly more. My goal for tomorrow is to be a bit more sociable and meet with those people whom I have met or came across with over the internet for the past year. I hope to see you all guys there tomorrow! I am really excited to meet more bloggers, and most especially the talk of Mr. Marhgil Macuha, a well-known problogger. I am currently reading his Guerilla Blogging SEO E-Book and have been learning a lot.

09:20 AM - Flair Candy / Hannah Villasis talked about basics of blogging and how important it is to jumpstart blogging.

09:37 AM - Video Blogging by Vince Golangco

Highlights:
Personal branding is very important.
Video blogging can earn you money.
70% of internet growth will be coming from videos.
Notes
I am expecting a lot of people to come in a few hours. Morning sessions of iBlog6 usually doesn’t fill up Malcolm. Many bloggers (prominent ones) will probably arrive this afternoon. And this hall will be jamapacked.

Vince Golangco is very entertaining. I like it that we are learning something while he makes really good jokes! Its an entertaining presentation. He shows videos and funny clips and still makes a point.

Photoblogging 101 by Juned Sonido

Before marketing yourself, you gotta have a product.
The shooter is more important, not the camera.
What Do You Get Out of Photoblogging

• For relaxation, stress release
• Adventure and pleasure of taking snapshots
• Chronicling and Storytelling
• Friendship, network
• Career

10 Things to Remember in Photoblogging

• Shoot, shoot and shoot
• Respect the People, Custom
• Find time to know the people and place.
• Always carry spare / notebook
• Know the camera, protect it and take care of it.
• Be receptive to learning
• The shooter is more important not the camera.

iBlog6 will resume at 11 AM.

Blogging Policies by Emerson Banez

He talked yesterday about Legal Issues in Blogging.

Highlights
Blogging is…
Aspirational
Guidelines (how to deal with competitors, with spams etc.)
Blogging Policy has two aspects: regulation of your employees
Norms, Market, Law.

I can’t understand the text in the PPT presentation. And I really don’t understand the technical terms like manifestos and stuff.

My wishlist is for corporate blogging policies to include full disclosure – Emerson Banez

Mobile Blogging by Racquel Cagurangan

Nice presentation header. Cellphone keypad with the words “give your blog the extra push”

• promises to keep the talk short for LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH!
• traditional online channel is great but a lot of people are going mobile! 25 M uses internet!
• Blog’m push blog entries to mobile phones. Designed for bloggers pushing entries to users’ handset and earn extra by serving mobile ads. For mobile users who wants to experience rich media content and advertisers who wants to capitalize on growing blog and mobile ecosystems.

Now, lunch break! iBlog6 will resume by 1:20 PM with UP Concert Chorus performance! Woot! XD

iBlog6 resumes with the performance of UP Concert Chorus

Mechanical Engineering graduate and PSME-UPSU alumni ReyJr introduced the group. They are currently singing “Hallelujah” and will be singing Pamulinawen and Ikaw ang Lahat sa Akin.

Political Blogging, Election 2010 Blogging by Marck Ronald Remorin (Marocharim)

Content and relevance is very important in political blog.
Social media is perceived as the be-all-end-all solution to any problem.
Political blogging now becomes a social media bandwagon…
Urges bloggers to frame and reclaim memory.
Marocharim thinks social media will change political landscape in 2016.
Political blog can transform to a diary of dissen, docu of truth, thought and emotion, as bloggers are diarists of the generation that is why we need to sustain social media – conversion is for the better.
Make it a sustained investment.

Social Media and Election Blogging from Ms. Noemi Dado,and Tonyo Cruz

1. Communication (Blog Entries, Microblogging)
2. Collaboration
3. Multimedia

Social media Spoon Feediong (Strengthen institutional gatekeepers, emphasize niches, impacts mass media)
Social Media in Elections (Political Petri Dish) – Significance – fleeting, reactive, non-deliberative.

Ms. Noemi Dado talks about benefits and risks of blogging about elections.
Now, Ms. Dado is sharing about BlogWatch and her experience meeting political bloggers and politicians.

Election Blogging Top Topics

Voter’s Education
Automated Elections
Commentaries
Features on issues and Platforms
Campaign Finances

Jinoe Gavan’s Launching Successful Blog Contest

Running contests on blog:
Main problem is where to get prizes (may it be on your own pocket, previous prizes, sponsors, friends)

Types of Contest
- blog (very time consuming but can help you in SEO and link building
- photos and videos
- quiz (relevant or funny to your site)
- comments (give comments to your site and then get a lot of entries, weight on sponsor thinking on viral aspect is lesser)
- survey or polls

How to Determine the Winner
- Quality (best post or comment, if you are the judge give criteria)
- Quantity (points earned, most number of hits, most number of comments – effective in promoting site though might be spam-ish)
- Luck (random numbers, raffle or randomizer.org)

Announcing the Contest
Simple introduction (why you are holding the contest, make the title of the contest catchy to create buzz, mechanics should be clear especially on time period, qualifications, judging)

Contest Tips
- Providing relevant prizes/product or service (for food, food gift certificates, travel – bags shirts and souvenirs, tech- gadgets, merchandise)
- Check handling and delivery
- Make it simple. Two paragraphs to introduce, theme of the contest then mechanics. Simple mechanics.
- Promote contest with a bang
- Plug it in a social media.

When to have blog contests
- Celebration (anniversary or milestones)
- Promotion (products and services)
- Interaction (hits, response, participation)

Making Themes for Sponsors
- choose related to your contest but if they insist, GOGOGO!

More Tips
- Be on time in announcing winners.
- Follow up on winners and prizes
- Work closesly with sponsors so expectations would be met.
- Thank the readers, participants, winners and sponsors.

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