DigitalFilipino Web Awards: 2007

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Sharing Website and E-Commerce Experiences

Many thanks to DigitalFilipino.com Web Awards winners, DigitalFilipino.com Club SME and corporate members who took time to join the Advanced E-Commerce Training workshop.

Here are some handout links and blog coverage:

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

June 18 to 20: Advance E-Commerce Training for Winners

All DigitalFilipino.com Web Awards and Philippine Schools Cyberfair 2007 Winners are invited to send a representative to the forthcoming Advance E-Commerce Training this June 18 to 20 at the APEC Digital Opportunity Center (ADOC) Laboratory, National Computer Center / Commission on Information and Communications Technology, C.P. Garcia Avenue, U.P. Diliman Quezon City (beside PhilVocs).

All winners are entitled to send one representative during the training. Just e-mail me the name of your representative, e-mail address, and contact number for proper coordination at digitalfilipino (at) gmail.com

DigitalFilipino.com Club SME members can also send 1 representative while Corporate members can send 2 representatives. Please confirm for food count purposes.

The training program shall be as follows:

June 18: Search Engine Optimization Workshop

9 am to 10 am: Enhancing your website pages for search engine optimization
10:30 to 12 noon: Landing Page Optimization: How to Raise Conversions (Marc Macalua)
1 pm to 3:00 pm: Launching an Internet Advertising campaign and Website Metrics Monitoring (Aileen Apolo, Google)
3:30 pm to 5 pm: Tapping blogs for marketing promotion

June 19: Mobile Marketing and E-Commerce Policy Review

9 am to 12 noon Mobile Phone or SMS Campaign Marketing, Set-Up, and Monitoring (Erick Kalugdan, InfoTxt)
1 pm to 3 pm E-Commerce Law Review, Evidence Handling, and Reporting Procedure for CyberCrime Incidents
3:30 to 5 pm DTI Guidelines Review: SME-FIT, Data Privacy Guidelines for the Private Sector, and Consumer Protection in E-Commerce Transactions

June 20: Online Payment Workshop

9 am to 12 noon: Online Payment Solutions and Set-Up Demos
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Mobile and Micro Payments Acceptance
3:30 to 5:00 pm Fraud Detection (Paul Hubbard, YesPayments)

There will be 1 computer assigned for every 2 participants. However, you are encouraged to bring a laptop during the workshop.

Friday, April 27, 2007

DigitalFilipino.com Web Awards News and Blog Coverage

Our sincerest thanks to everyone who have covered and written about this event.

(iWatch news feature taken April 27, 2007 by RPN Channel 9 featuring three winners: Pinoy Travel Blog, Philippine ROSE Online, CANVAS. Recorded using a Palm Treo 680.)

Media and blog coverage:

ADOC ICT Awards Winners

Cheers to the winners of the ADOC ICT Awards!

First place: RegaloService
Second place: Philippine Realty Showroom
Third place: Canvas

The three winners were selected by the APEC Digital Opportunity Center and got the following prizes:

ADOC ICT Award 3rd Place (SOHO Pack: Scanner, 4-gigabyte Pen Drive, and a Printer)
ADOC ICT Award 2nd Place (Laptop)
ADOC ICT Award 1st Place (ADOC Week participation on July 24 to 27, 2007 in Taiwan and Laptop)

The ADOC ICT Award 1st Place shall get to participate in the ADOC Week that includes the following:

A round-trip ticket from Manila to Taipei, economy class.
Up to four nights accommodation in Taipei
Daily meals & transportation to all ADOC events* (27th July -Lunch only)
Daily allowance for up to five days, each day for US$10
Travel insurance up to US$ 30,000
An ADOC ICT Award 2007
Participation in Events & Activities: ADOC Plenary 2007, ADOC Gala Night 2007, Visit to ICT High-tech science park, Trip to world's tallest building, 101.

Congratulations!

Winners: DigitalFilipino.com Web Awards 2007

We would like to extend our congratulations to the following winners of the DigitalFilipino.com Web Awards 2007.

Most grateful to the APEC Digital Opportunity Center for supporting this endeavor and giving very nice prizes to the top three (3) ADOC Award winners.

Apparel / Fashion Category - Kamiseta
Art Category - Canvas
Association / Organization Category - Atikha Overseas Workers and Communities Initiative
Auction / Shopping Portal Category - MyAyala
Automotive Category - Ford Philippines
Beauty Category - FemaleNetwork
Blog - Personal Category - Touched by an Angel
Blog - Professional Category - Manuel Viloria
Books Category - Booktopia
Community Category - SEO Philippines Forum
Computer / Consumer Electronics Category - PC Express
Consumer Banking / Bills Payment Category - HSBC Philippines
Corporate / Professional Category - Syntactics
Education Category - De La Salle University - Manila
Food Category - Bulacan Sweets and Delicacies Center
Games Category - Philippine R.O.S.E. Online
Gifts Category - RegaloService
Government Category - Government Portal of the Republic of the Philippines
Home Furnishings Category - Cebu Rattan Company
Insurance Category - Sun Life Financial
Music / Movie/ Film Category - PhilMusic
Newspaper Category - Inquirer.net
Pharmaceuticals Category - Philippine Herbal Medicine Site
Podcast Category - Viloria.com Pinoy Podcast
Politics Category - Senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr.
Real Estate Category - Philippine Realty Showroom
Services Category - Chikka
Social Networking Category - Itzamatch
Telecom / Value Added Services Category - Globe Kababayan
Tourism Category - Pinoy Travel Blog
Travel Category - Lakbay Pilipinas

The simple recognition ceremony was held last April 27, Friday, 9 am to 2:30 pm at the Penthouse of the Board of Investments Building, Gil Puyat Avenue (corner Paseo de Roxas), Makati City. Thank you very much to the Board of Investments (IT Investments Group) for supporting this endeavour and Office of Policy Research Director (and E-Commerce Law Monitoring Point Person) Ludy Yaptinchay for gracing the occassion.

Thanks to all club members who participated in this program by:

Nominating websites online or through e-mail. (also to the public-at-large)
Helped in the judging online.
Google (through Aileen Apolo) for giving Google AdWords vouchers.
Innove for providing special prizes to all the thirty-one winners.
Allfox Computer Center for providing souvenier badges to all winners.
Volunteers Charlie Gaw, Joan Pinon, Ida Bata, and Jay Frank De Jesus for helping out in the registration, interacting with the winners / press, and food dissemination.
Syntactics for providing an image or logo that winners can opt to use in their site.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

April 27: DigitalFilipino Web Awards Ceremony

The DigitalFilipino Web Awards winners recognition ceremony shall be made this April 27, 2007 Friday 9 am at the Penthouse of Board of Investments, Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City.

The agenda of the awards are as follows:

8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome remarks - What makes a great website?

9:15 - 10:30 Winners recognition (Apparel/Fashion, Art, Association / Organization, Auction / Shopping Portal, Automotive, Beauty, Blog - Personal, Blog - Professional, Books,
Community, Computer/Consumer Electronics, Consumer Banking/Bills Payment, Corporate / Professional, Education, Food, Games)

10:30 - 10:45 Promoting your business online (Aileen Apolo, Google)

10:45 - 12:15 Winners recognition (Gifts, Government, Home Furnishings, Insurance, Music/Movie/Film, Newspaper, Pharmaceuticals, Podcast, Politics, Real Estate, Services, Social Networking, Telecom / Value Added Services, Tourism, Travel)

12:15 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 2:00 The APEC Digital Opportunity Center (ADOC) Award (Guest Speaker from TECO)

ADOC ICT Award 3rd Place (SOHO Pack: Scanner, 4-gigabyte Pen Drive, and a Printer)
ADOC ICT Award 2nd Place (Laptop)
ADOC ICT Award 1st Place (ADOC Week participation on July 24 to 27, 2007 in Taiwan and Laptop)

2:00 - 2:30 Closing and Group Picture

All winners will receive a trophy, Google AdWords US$50 voucher, tokens, and a slot in the 3-days Advance E-Commerce Workshop Training. Note that winners have no fees to pay for in order to receive their award this Friday.

DigitalFilipino.com Club Members are requested to confirm their attendance ahead of time and take advantage of this activity to meet our winners.

Attire: Semi-formal

The ADOC ICT Award 1st Place shall get to participate in the ADOC Week that includes the following:

A round-trip ticket from Manila to Taipei, economy class.
Up to four nights accommodation in Taipei
Daily meals & transportation to all ADOC events* (27th July -Lunch only)
Daily allowance for up to five days, each day for US$10
Travel insurance up to US$ 30,000
An ADOC ICT Award 2007
Participation in Events & Activities: ADOC Plenary 2007, ADOC Gala Night 2007, Visit to ICT High-tech science park, Trip to world's tallest building, 101.

The APEC Digital Opportunity Center is supported by the

Commission on Information and Communications Technology

ADOC signs up as Major Sponsor

I am happy to share that the DigitalFilipino.com Web Awards is now being done in collaboration with the APEC Digital Opportunity Center or ADOC program. It aims to advocate the use of the Internet and e-commerce for business development, through the identification, promotion and highlighting of best e-commerce practices from various websites in the Philippines.

From the 31 winners, there will be three ADOC Award winners, where the first place will be able to represent the Philippines in the ADOC Week on July 24 to 27 in Taiwan. (Sun.Star Cebu)

Thursday, April 5, 2007

Philippine Websites Mostly Not SEO-Friendly

In narrowing down prospective finalists for the DigitalFilipino Web Awards, I realized that a lot of the prominent and beautiful Filipino websites today have been missing for failing to fix their site for search engine visibility. The very basic but most prevalent reason is the lack of unique title tag for every page in a website. As a result, you’ll notice the company name appearing as the page title, regardless of which page you view inside it. (Sun.Star Cebu)

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Call for sponsors: DigitalFilipino Web Awards

The DigitalFilipino.com Web Awards is an experimental project of the DigitalFilipino.com Club. We want to provide a means for websites to be nominated by peers and be judged by your everyday Internet user/consumer.

Instead of a typical awards ceremony, we will hold the awards the Cyberfair way where we will inform the winners in advance so that they can prepare in sharing their lessons learned during the event to enrich the learning experience of our club members.

You can support the DigitalFilipino.com Web Awards by signing up either as:

Major Sponsor (P50,000)

Logo in trophies for the 31 categories
Logo in event streamer
Logo and website link from this blog for one year.
Text ad link for one year in the following blogs: Philippine Internet Review, Philippine Outsourcing Review, DigitalFilipino Podcast, Ituloy AngSulong, W3O, and Reflective Thinking blog.
Speaking slot at the awards ceremony
Table space at the event
Display of 2 streamers at the event.

Minor Sponsor (P25,000)

Logo in event streamer
Logo and website link from this blog for one year.
Text ad link for one year in the following blogs: Philippine Internet Review, Philippine Outsourcing Review, DigitalFilipino Podcast, Ituloy AngSulong, W3O, and Reflective Thinking blog.
Table space at the event

Donor (P5,000)

Text ad link from this blog for one year.

If interested, send me an email at digitalfilipino (at) gmail.com. Awards ceremony will be on April 27, 2007. Venue to be announced by April 16.

Friday, March 23, 2007

Winners: Philippine Schools Cyberfair 2007: Empower and Unite!

Congratulations to the winners of the Philippine Schools Cyberfair 2007: Empower and Unite!

Our sincerest thanks to Microsoft Philippines for being our venue sponsor during the awards ceremony this morning.

What makes this competition unique and tough at the same time is that the students' work should tell a story about their community. In addition, for the Philippines competition, an entry must have an English and Filipino edition of their site.

Close to 300 students participated in this year's Cyberfair and your accomplishment contributes in spreading the growth of Internet content in the country.

1. Local Leaders

Winner: Ms. Ongsansoy: Mother of Claret High
Claret School of Quezon City

2. Community Groups and Special Populations

Winner: Las Piñas Boys Choir: Voices of Exquisity
St. Joseph's Academy

Runner-Up: Boy Scout of the Philippines of Claret School of Quezon City
Claret School of Quezon City

3. Businesses and Organizations

Winner: A Virtual Tour of San Pablo City Commercial District
MSC High School

Runner-Up: Centers of Financial Progress
St. Joseph's Academy

Honorable Mention: Philippine Daily Inquirer, The timeless news
Claret School of Quezon City

Honorable Mention: Women are in
Iligan City National High School

4. Local Specialties, Sports and Health

Winner: Las Piñas in a a battle against dengue
St. Joseph's Academy

Runner-Up: Philippine Sports
MSC High School

5. Local Attractions (Natural and Man Made)

Winner: The Hidden Paradise - Experience the Enchantment of Tinago Falls
Iligan City East High School - Sta. Filomena

Runner-Up: Mall of Asia
Claret School of Quezon City

Honorable Mention: The Church: An Instrument to God's Kingdom
St. Joseph Academy

6. Historical Landmarks

Winner: Rock Force
Claret School of Quezon City - Grade School

Runner-Up: Structures of San Pablo delos Montes
MSC High School

Honorable Mention: Mary Immaculate Parish
STI Academy High School

7. Environmental Awareness and Issues

Winner: Clean and Green Las Piñas
STI Academy High School

Runner-Up: Quezon City: The City Of New Environment
Claret School of Quezon City

Honorable Mention: Las Pinas – Saving Our Environment
St. Joseph's Academy

8. Local Culture, Music and Art Forms

Winner: Local Artists of San Pablo City
MSC High School

Runner-Up: St. Michael the Archangel
Iligan City National High School

Apart from the medals, shirts, and certificates, winning teachers will be invited to an e-commerce workshop this June 18 to 20, 2007.

You can help in supporting the Philippine Schools Cyberfair advocacy by buying the "Making the Internet Useful for Children E-Book: A Philippine Schools Cyberfair Fundraiser" for only US$10.00.

For the growth of Internet use in the Philippines!

I will post the 2008 call for entries and sponsors by August 2007.

Sunday, March 11, 2007

March 23: Philippine Schools Cyberfair Awards recognition ceremony

Hello everyone. The Philippine Schools Cyberfair 2007 recognition ceremony is scheduled this March 23, Friday, 9 am at Microsoft Philippines, 16th floor, #6750 Ayala Avenue, Makati City (beside Shangri-la Hotel).

Our sincerest thanks to Microsoft Philippines for providing us the venue for this humble project.

For the growth of Internet use and e-commerce in the Philippines!!!

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Judging: Travel Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Travel category:

Judging: Tourism Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Tourism category:

Judging: Telecom / Value-Added Services Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Telecom / Value-Added Services category:

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Judging: Socal Networking Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Social Networking category:

Monday, March 5, 2007

Judging: Services Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Services category:

Judging: Real Estate Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Real Estate category:

Sunday, March 4, 2007

Judging: Politics Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Politics category:

Judging: Podcast Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Podcast category:

Judging: Pharmaceuticals Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Pharmaceuticals category:

Judging: Newspaper Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Newspaper category:

Saturday, March 3, 2007

Judging: Music / Movie / Film Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Music, Movie, and Film category:

Judging: Jobs Category

There are no finalists in this category.

Judging: Insurance Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Insurance category:

Judging: Home Furnishings Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Home Furnishings category:

Friday, March 2, 2007

Judging: Government Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Government category:

Judging: Gifts Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Gifts category:

Judging: Games Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Games category:

Judging: Food Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Food category:

Judging: Events / Conferences Category

There are no finalists in this category.

Judging: Education Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Education category:

Judging: Corporate / Professional Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Corporate / Professional category:

Thursday, March 1, 2007

Judging: Consumer Banking / Bills Payment Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Consumer Banking / Bills Payment category:

Judging: Computer / Consumer Electronics Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Computer / Consumer Electronics category:

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Judging: Community category

Here are the finalists competing for the Community category:

Judging: Books category

Here are the finalists competing for the Books category:

Judging: Blog - Professional category

Here are the finalists competing for the Blog - Professional category:

Judging: Blog - Personal category

Here are the finalists competing for the Blog - Personal category:

Judging: Beauty category

Here are the finalists competing for the Beauty category:

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Judging: Automotive category

Here are the finalists competing for the Automotive category:

Judging: Auction / Shopping Portal category

Here are the finalists competing for the Auction / Shopping Portal category:

Judging: Association / Organization category

Here are the finalists competing for the Association / Organization Category:

Judging: Art Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Art Category:

Judging: Apparel / Fashion Category

Here are the finalists competing for the Apparel / Fashion Category:

Monday, February 26, 2007

Thank you for nominating and last call for donors/sponsors

My sincerest thanks to everyone who posted their nominations for the DigitalFilipino.com Web Awards. The same goes to those who requested to send their nominations through e-mail.

We shall be posting the nominees list this week.

To Philippine Schools Cyberfair entries, your website completion deadline is this Saturday.

As always, it is not too late to support these advocacy by donating prizes and even become a sponsor for only five thousand pesos (P5000).

We are expecting an audience size of 200 participants during the award ceremonies.

Monday, February 19, 2007

Judges roster

My sincerest thanks to the following club members and friends who helped out in the judging online. They are:

Joan Piñon
Ida Bata, Fleishman-Hillard
Andrew De la Serna
Ulten Ryan, APEC Digital Opportunity Center
Aileen Apolo
Jehan Cheng
Oliver Robillo
Ma. Reggie Bundang
Stephanie Caragos
Abby Ongyanco-Lim
Jherlie Cheng, Posh Marketing Services
Sheila Rada, Dominguez Marketing Services
Gerry Diwa, Sound-Weavers
Maria Susan Dela Rama, TESDA
Jhermie Ortega, Avaya
Peachy Herrin
Cathy Candano

Note that judges who have websites that are finalists as well did not participate in those categories.

Submission extended up to February 25

Because of the erratic Internet connection that is being experienced lately, the deadline for submission is now extended up to February 25! We look forward to your entries!

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Last call for nominees

Hi everyone. Here's a shout-out for our last call for nominees in this award and it is due on February 25 (formerly 18th).

If there are categories that won't have any entries, we may decide to scrap that category for inclusion in the awards.

On the side, last day also of registration for the Philippine Schools Cyberfair 2007: Empower and Unite! is today, January 31. We may accept late registrants on a case to case basis for as long as the website gets completed on or before February 28, 2007. Note that a website entry must have a Filipino and English version.