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BLOGS & SOCIAL NETWORKS – THE NEW MEDIA

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After the successful National E-Commerce Conference Blogworld Philippines2010 held last March 5, 2010 at the Crossroad Convention Center in Quezon City, the Social Thinkers, one of the country’s dynamic event organizer in IT and e-commerce will be bringing the e-commerce conference to Northern Luzon entitled “BLOGS AND SOCIAL NETWORKS – THE NEW MEDIA” to be held on July 26, 2010 (8am-5pm) at the Music Warehouse, Perez Boulevard Dagupan City.

Guests: International Speaker Ms Janette Toral of digitalfilipino.com and SEO Expert Mr. Gary Viray (Search Opt Media). See you there! -Jonathan Jay Daoana (GCF Dagupan Masters Commission)

BNS has limited number of tickets available. Kindly contact Marichu. For more details, interested Parties may wish to visit : http://www.thesocialthinkers.com/northern-luzon-e-commerce-conference.html

Yahoo Philippines to Webcast Presidential Inauguration

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On June 30, Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III will not only take his oath as the highest official in the land, but will also make history as the first Philippine president whose inauguration will be livestreamed on the Internet.

Yahoo! Southeast Asia will provide a live video stream of the Aquino inauguration, in partnership with broadcast network TV5, MediaQuest and webcast provider, FutureGen.

This will be made available on the Purple Thumb election site of Yahoo! Philippines, together with a live blog that will give up-the-minute updates and allow readers from all over the world to post their comments.

Just as in the Purple Thumb coverage of the first automated elections in the Philippines, bloggers and citizen journalists can take part in Yahoo!’s social media coverage by using the hashtag #PurpleThumb together with their election-related tweets. These #PurpleThumb Twitter updates will be automatically posted on the live blog, where they can be read by the millions of readers who visit the Yahoo! Philippines site.

More Info here: http://ph.yfittopostblog.com/2010/06/29/live-video-stream-of-aquino-inauguration-on-june-30/

Best Practices in Marketing, Strategy and Innovation

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In partnership with Mansmith and Fielders, Inc., “Best Practices in Marketing, Strategy and Innovation” will feature talks from Josiah Go (Marketing, Strategy and Business Innovation), Donald Lim (Online Marketing Innovation) and Chiqui Escareal-Go (Service Marketing Innovation) plus a workshop to help participants apply the learnings to their own workplace. Mr. Raul Rodriguez, the Director and Vice President of Xenxatech, Inc. and member-treasurer of FITDEV, will moderate the forum.

“Best Practices in Marketing, Strategy and Innovation” will be held on May 14, 2010, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, at the Ruby B Function Room, Crowne Plaza Galleria, Quezon City. Interested participants may register until May 12, 2010 by filling out the registration forms found within the pages of BusinessWorld. The forms may be faxed to (02) 535-9939 or (02) 535-9926. For online registration, log on to www.bworldonline.com/bestpractices.

For inquiries, please call Omar Itay of the BusinessWorld Marketing Communications and Services Group at 5359901 local 826.

REGISTRATION FEES:

 1,500 – BusinessWorld Annual Subscriber

 1,800 – BusinessWorld Semi-Annual Subscriber

 1,800 – Codex Annual Subscriber

 3,500 – non-subscriber

– first 30 registrants will get 10% discount on registration fees

– a special rate of 5,000 will be given to registrants who will subscribe on site.

Check Out Microsoft’s IIS SEO Toolkit

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The IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit helps Web developers, hosting providers, and Web server administrators to improve their Web site’s relevance in search results by recommending how to make the site content more search engine-friendly.

The IIS SEO Toolkit includes the Site Analysis module, the Robots Exclusion module, and the Sitemaps and Site Indexes module, which let you perform detailed analysis and offer recommendations and editing tools for managing your Robots and Sitemaps files.

To install, click this: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9695987

SCRUM Certified Course

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The 4th Certified ScrumMaster Course in Manila is coming on May 4-5 at the Manila Diamond Hotel.  The Course Fee is Php50,000 — inclusive of the 2-Day Training, Breakfast, Lunch and Snacks, Training Materials, and Certification.

Agile expert Bas Vodde will once again conduct the certification training.

Scrum is an agile software development framework. Work is structured in cycles of work called sprints, iterations of work that are typically two to four weeks in duration. During each sprint, teams pull from a prioritized list of customer requirements, called user stories, so that the features that are developed first are of the highest value to the customer.

At the end of each sprint, a potentially shippable product is delivered.

Discounts Apply for Early Bird Registrants and Group Attendees!Early Bird: less 10% if will register and pay on or before April 16, 2010 Group Discount: Register and pay for three participants and get one slot FREE on or before April 23, 2010 Regular fee applies after the promo dates. For Details and Registration please visit:  http://codelean.com/en/Training/UpcomingEvents.aspx

Make Social Media the Secret Ingredient to Your Marketing Success

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Here’s your chance to understand what social media is all about, and how to clearly and completely integrate it into your existing marketing strategies and campaigns.

Social Media is about joining the ongoing conversations our customers and prospects are already having and not trying to control them.
Beyond this first step of connecting with customers on social networking sites, how do you generate more business from your social media activity?

Attend this conference – The 3rd Social Networking Conference 2010 on April 22-23, 2010 at Hotel Intercontinental, Makati City, Philippines…and learn how to:

– Design and execute an innovative social media campaign
– Integrate social media into your current marketing mix
– Connect with your target audience using social media tools

Social networking is bigger than buzz, don’t miss this conference.

Hurry! Sign-up now and book your conference seat.

Save P1,000.00 when you register, NOW!

LEARN MORE: http://www.fmi.com.ph

Call 8960639, 8960637, email: fiera@info.com.ph for registration.

Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac Offers Fastest Performance on Snow Leopard and for Windows 7

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image001Parallels has announced the availability of the fastest, most seamless Windows-on-Mac solution ever: Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac. This is the latest version of the number 1 Mac system utility, currently enabling more than 2 million users to run Windows, Linux and other operating systems side-by-side with Mac OS X.

According to performance research conducted by Crimson Consulting Group, Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac performs 22% faster than the nearest Windows-on-Mac competitor in standard productivity testing of Windows 7 64-bit on a MacBook Pro. In addition, version 5 is up to 300% faster for virtual machine operations than the previous version.  For 3D and graphics performance, tested under the industry standard 3Dmark 2006 Professional test suite the new version performs up to 7 times better.

Users can test this for themselves with a free trial from www.parallels.com/desktop.

<Availability>
The Parallels Desktop 5 (PD5) for Mac is now available. Additional localized versions will soon be available in Simplified Chinese and Japanese for the APAC market in the coming weeks.

<Pricing for PD5>
The standard retail price (SRP) of Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac is USD$79.99, including USD$175 worth of additional software for free:
– Parallels Internet Security 2009 by Kaspersky (1-year subscription);
– Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 (Disk Management); and
– Acronis True Image Home 2010 (Backup and Recovery Solutions).

Current Parallels Desktop users can upgrade their existing software for USD$49.99.

<Free Upgrade to PD5>
Users that purchased version 4.0 on or after 1st October 2009 qualify with a proof of purchase for a free upgrade to version 5.