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AJ Jorge April 15th, 2007

My first time to attend a formal blog conference. The 1st BlogCon at GreenBelt3 was a dinner/party, the BlogParteeh! was a party and the Blog Awards was an awards night. ü

I missed the first 2 iBlog events so I made it a point to go this time. The usual gang was there (do you guys really need link loves?). The ever talkative jester was the first one I saw. Juned, Poell and Ramsey showed next.

Chris opened up the whole conference with his blogging for newbies talk. He was of course with his wife Apples. Too bad they have to leave early though on the first day though. I met Celeste, a blogger from Baguio (who drove all the way to Manila with her husband and lovely daughter just to attend the conference). The quiet but deadly Shari was sitting on the far end of the room. Maybe because she’s had too much fame already.

I’ll leave the details with Jester’s entry and Apple’s 2-day reports – first day & second day. Janette Toral also compiled the blog entries for the events.

I guess the heart and soul of the blogging meetups like this is the socializing on the side. I get to finally introduce myself to Jonas and Marcelle. I saw in person Malou Mangahas, Alecks Pabico, Dean Alfar and Manuel L. Quezon III and other high-profile blogger.

It’s a given that Abe and his troop were also there. They just ooze with PR juices and everyone around them will just fall in awe.

On the second day, I wore my WordPress shirt. I proudly paraded around and true enough, people would stop me to ask where I got my shirt. What better day to wore the shirt but in an event like this. Thanks to Ant for sending me one. Let’s work out something so we could do a business of buying and selling WordPress shirts here in the Philippines.

All in all, the event was truly educational. I know the organizers put a lot of effort to stage this event. I personally thank each of them and hopefully we will have more (free) iBlogs to come.

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