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)

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)

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.