Here’s how I define Emerging Influential

My Top Ten is not yet complete but here’s my initial list of nominees: (in alphabetical order)

Davao Delicious
Davao Delicious is just one of the many Davao blogs which provides alternative information on Davao City. The blog highlights the many culinary delights in the city, enticing locals and tourists to have a taste of Davao.

Digital Puto
Not all stories can be shared with words. Pictures capture a moment in time. Digital Puto, redefined for me, the way I see photos.

Events by Ria
Wedding coordination and events planning is a booming business. A gratis gig as a wedding coordinator and a blog post has spawned a blog. And from that blog, a business that is blooming leaps and bounds. With little SEO work by a non-SEO practitioner, this blog has shown me that content is indeed king, and a blog can shape the way one does business.

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Organizers: Mindanao Bloggers Inc.
Date: October 25, 2008, Saturday
Venue: to be determined in Metro Manila

Who are invited?
Developers, WordPress users, and anybody else who are interested in WordPress.

Why you should attend?
It’s going to be interesting, fun, educational, and I’m gonna be there. :P

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Do you have or plan to have an E-Business? Are you based in Davao City and free on the afternoon of May 14? If your answers to those questions are yes, attend the DigitalFilipino.com Club Davao E-Commerce and E-Business Owners Meetup on May 14, 2008, 4 - 7 pm. It’s going to be held at the Toto’s Bar 6th Floor Casa Leticia Hotel, J. Camus Street, Davao City.

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Countryside Blogger

People often ask me a lot of questions being that I consider myself a “professional blogger.”

First, of course is they ask me how I became a “professional blogger.” While blogging started as a hobby, an outlet for all my emo-ness (sometimes it still is), I now treat it as a job through which I earn money and develop myself professionally. Daily (including weekends and holidays), I open my laptop, read, research, and blog because I feel like as a blogger who earns money from blogging, it is my duty to blog diligently and excellently. Needless to say, I have not perfected blogging, but I think I have improved. And I earn a pretty decent living out of it.

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