Comments on: Bloggers summit in Mindanao is a go!

By: Doris

Doris — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:03:17 +0000

Wow! A Blogger’s Summit, that’s interesting. Looking forward to this event! =D

By: Waltzib

Waltzib — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:20:34 +0000

Looking forward to the First Bloggers’ Summit in Mindanao!

By: Beejing

Beejing — Tue, 29 May 2007 12:43:32 +0000

Bob,

Wow, this is great news. Wish I could join this event. I’m pretty sure it’d fun. Whoaa. Anyway, I’ll be home to Bukidnon by October, might as well go to Davao for the Summit. Wohooo! Tell me more about it. Thanks.

Beejing.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 29 May 2007 04:08:08 +0000

Thanks for the updates Blogie. You’ll have to forgive my overeagerness, I have this odd tendency to get impatient with non-real-time discussions sometimes.

Anyway, if you guys still need a mascot on spandex, just let me know!

By: Blogie

Blogie — Mon, 28 May 2007 23:07:30 +0000

Mark, thanks for your input. The 3 points you’ve raised will form a vital part of the meat of the summit, most definitely.

However, in fairness to my co-organizers, please keep in mind that the theme discussion going on in this thread is not all that’s going on. We are indeed identifying who the target audience could be — and yes, this is a summit of the bloggers of Mindanao; although, bloggers from other parts of the country (or of the world) are more than welcome to participate.

Keep it coming, Mark! Your thoughts are always welcome!

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 28 May 2007 12:56:04 +0000

Mascot, huh. It wouldn’t be the first time. Let me look for my Spandex first.

Regarding the theme. Shouldn’t we be first thinking about who the summit’s target audience is before we think about the one-liners?

From the way I understand it (and correct me if I’m wrong on this one), the summit aims to bring together the bloggers of Mindanao. Thus the target audience are these bloggers who will be attending. Based on that, I’m thinking (guessing) that the messages during the summit could revolve around the following:

1. A major role of Mindanao bloggers is to paint a better picture of the island for the whole world to see;

2. The reasons why it’s important to paint a better picture of Mindanao are…;

3. The ways in which a Mindanao blogger can help paint a better picture of the island are….

Take the above as examples. The point I’m just trying to make is that there first needs to be a clear statement of the target audience and the intended message for each audience before a one-liner is written because one-liners tend to be very limiting and quite ambiguous most of the time.

By: Blogie

Blogie — Mon, 28 May 2007 05:06:15 +0000

@Bob — that’s a start. now we just need to insert something about blogging in that theme statement… thanks!

@shane — looking forward to having you over! do you know honey caragos? she’s our point person in CdO.

@Mark — what a shame! sige send me your photo — gawin nating mascot!

@tina — and i’m counting on you!

By: tina

tina — Mon, 28 May 2007 03:55:10 +0000

count me in! hehe

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 28 May 2007 02:33:12 +0000

Too bad I’ll be back in Oz when Oct 2007 comes. Maybe I can just e-mail you my picture, Blog. Then you have it projected for about 5 or so seconds during the summit. Heh.

By: shane

shane — Mon, 28 May 2007 01:34:36 +0000

Sounds great!

Looking forward to meeting prominent bloggers in Mindanao.

From CdO.