Mindoro Resources to raise up to C$4m for gold exploration in Philippines

Mindoro Resources to raise up to C$4m for gold exploration in Philippines

Internet Presence and Optimization | Webupon

Internet Presence and Optimization | Webupon

Make Money Blogging or Article Writing

The Batangas Province Chamber of Commerce and Industry was originally incorporated in 1994 when now Congressman Hermilando I. Mandanas was still Batangas Governor. It passed on to private sector hands right after its organization and Ms. Judex T. Fernando was elected First President and I had been Corporate Secretary in 1995 and served up to 1999 when I moved to work in the big city.

I came back to Batangas in 2004 to find that there is no one serving as Chamber’s Secretary General which is now called Executive Director. The chamber is a non-profit organization and the source of funding dried up.  Who would want to work for free?  While Ms. Fernando and I were serving as its officers, we were single girls enjoying ourselves attending those meetings in the other cities and provinces and organizing various events and we were both volunteers.  We also paid for our own gasoline expenses and assumed all the other tasks without expecting pay.  Another person who worked closely with us as volunteer was Mr. Floriano Abuzman who served as Secretary General and Director on a voluntary basis for years.  But Ms. Fernando got married in 1996 and I left the area in 1999, while Mr. Abuzman moved on to become the Senior Citizen Federation president.

So I came back to serve the Chamber again in 2004.  By 2004, internet cafes were already sprouting and reunited with my friend, we set up a business center and internet café.  This is when I spent most of my time in front of the computer and learned to chat, to publish our local newsletter, to receive all the communications from the post and from e-mails and began setting up little blogs.

I wanted to earn money for the organization, as it was difficult to maintain an office and attend all those meetings and conferences relying on the meager membership donations and contributions.  Internet blogging was a hit-and-miss thing.  It is still a hit-and-miss thing up to now.

I hear of all those people making money but we were not making any.  As our e-mails have to be public, I started receiving all those come-ons, bulletins and spam e-mails on how to make money using the internet. All of them would have the JOIN NOW button below the page and ask for your credit card number.

That was 2004!  It is 2011 and I have not gotten anywhere but I have read so many tips and articles on how to make money blogging.  To read about it is another thing, to be able to put the HTML codes and all those symbols can be so confusing.

But I found my niche in article writing.  I have been earning money from short articles I am writing.  I have articles posted in www.helium.com :  “A Guide to the Best Countries to Retire In, “ “How Should Men Be Involved in Family Planning”, “Parts of a Business Plan,” “Asian Perspectives of Women’s Rights.”  I also have articles in www.thedutchman.ca entitled Salabat (Ginger Tea), and Durian:  The King of Fruits. Look for my real name and my pen name maewrite or maehem when I am in my best elements.

Article writing will not make anyone rich, because you can only write a maximum of 18 hours in a single day and employers/contractors will only be willing to pay so much for an article.  But there is real money to be had in blogging if you will be diligent and follow what the gurus and those who have been successful so far are saying.

Everything you need to know about how to make money blogging has already been published somewhere for free on the internet.  But you have to find the right information and find someone who is not giving you a lot of “bull” just to get you visit his site and earn from clickbacks.

Good luck on your quest/search.  As making money on the internet is a sunrise industry, we hope you will join us and be a member of your local Chamber when you get to be successful and made a bundle of money blogging.  Anyone who can help me monetize for our projects and the good of “everyone except me” is most welcome.  In return, I maewrite for you.

Sweet Nothings: Glimpse and Pieces Of Our Vacation

Sweet Nothings: Glimpse and Pieces Of Our Vacation Thank you for sharing your pictures. We welcome and are grateful for blogs that showcase and promote Batangas. Batangas Province Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc. and the Philippine Action Group for Social Responsibility, Inc.

Up, Up Batangas is Usapang Pangkapayapaan, Usapang Pangkaunlaran 98.5FM

During times of emergencies and events of national interest, one would see Lt. Col. Gerry Zamudio on TV as the spokesman for the AFP, explaining away something that just happened.  I have known Lt. Col. Zamudio since 2006 when he was still with Fernando Air Base - and I felt so privileged to have known him when he became a celebrity of sorts as I always see him getting interviewed on national TV.  Lt. Col. Gerry Zamudio is a native Bicolano but is residing in Batangas with his lovely wife Nilda.

Sometime in March, he and a group of friends from the Rotary Club of Lipa South decided to start a public service Radio Program on 98.5FM every Sunday morning at 9:00 a.m. which is also aired on DWDD AFP Radio every Monday at 1:00 p.m. and on Channel 6 Cable TV Lipa every Sunday at 8:00 p.m. entitled Up Up Batangas.  Up Up stands for Usapang Pangkapayapaan and Usapang Pangkaunlaran

As our Vice President for Agriculture Mario Amparo is also from the Rotary Club of Lipa South, BPCCI became involved in this program.  We are at the Blue Sapphire every Sunday morning from 9:00 a.m. for the live program on radio and simultaneously taping it for Cable TV. 

Lt. Col Zamudio is the program's Anchor.  We are often joined by Bing Formento of DZRH who comes all the way from Manila just to lend a helping hand and to provide the professional  "VOICE" to our "little-town" efforts.  Mr. Formento is doing this for the sake of old friendships, and our group is just so grateful to him for his generosity with his time and assistance.

This is a public service effort and no one is getting paid.  Those who want to contribute content, time, effort, or just pay for our coffee and local pandesal, which Mr. Mario Amparo tries to provide every session  is most welcome. 

Blue Sapphire is the "event place" and coffee shop in front of Fernando Air Base in Lipa.   During the last session, where the discussion was about NSO, COMELEC, the Police and AFP roles in the coming elections, someone brought "suman" all the way from the town of Bauan. 

The next session will be about Tourism and local industries.  Guests from Tagaytay Highlands, which new development is mostly in the Batangas area, (although their main gate is in Tagaytay City, Cavite) promised to give us a taste of their "bread and pastries" 

Thank you very much to all of you who have been helping us.

Travel and Tourism Expo in Lipa and Handbook of Tourism-Related Establishments

We are cooperating with the Philippine Marketing Association - Batangas Chapter in organizing the Batangas Travel and Tourism Expo in Lipa City.  Everyone interested may send us a message.

As we cannot accommodate exhibitors and participants in the very limited spaces available in Lipa City, we have decided to publish the HANDBOOK on Travel and Tourism featuring Resorts, Hotels and Accommodations available per Province per Region in the Philippines, as part of this project.  This will also contain Comparative Statistics of Philippine Provinces per Region and basic Information on Accreditation and Tourism Standards.

We have noticed blogs where Information on Resorts and other related establishments are misleading. Websites and contact information stay published even if they are no longer valid.  We have also read Comments where people are so ignorant of  basic locations.

The HANDBOOK will be given to the would-be "newly elected" and newly-appointed officials of Batangas and other stakeholders in various industries and businesses to aid them in planning their seminars, conferences, team-buildings and vacations.

Hopefully we will be able to generate enough interest in this project and produce more copies to furnish our national network of friends and associates.

Batangas Action is now Philippine Action

We are retaining this blog, although it has been a while since we last posted.  We are cross-linked with multiply.com.  So when we used to post there, it turns up here, and in Facebook too.  But during the last two or more months, multiply has been "upgrading".  And the automatic "cross-posting' has not been working, so there has been no new posts.
 
We have signed up -batangascham and batangaschamber-  for both gmail.com and yahoo.com  extensions.  People keep inviting me and I ended up maintining three facebook accounts.  Soz, sorry for the invites to the other account... 3 is more than enough, I'd say.  

While we were registering Batangas Action for Corporate Social Responsibility with SEC, we attended a seminar in Manila.  Our counterpart "Executive Directors" from Laguna, Quezon, Cavite, Rizal and Baguio saw the paperwork - and so liked the idea - of involving employees of our member companies in local social responsibility projects that they decided to join in.  The individual membership Fee is P250.00 per annum and they paid up readily.

You see, the membership base of the Chamber of Commerce is the Company and/or it's official representative only.  If he/she/they do not issue an official memo for their employees to participate in a project - then there will only be few attendees.  And understandably, he/she/they being CEOS/owners/presidents are always too busy to bother with memos for small-scale community projects.

As of this writing, we have already filed the application with SEC - for Philippine Action Group for Social Responsibility Inc.  The name evolved from "services and development" to "group for social responsibility".  We are still in the process of editing some points in the Articles/By-laws from the comments of the Monitoring and Evaluation Department.

So, we will be posting about our next projects - and we hope to see more of you, Batanguenos - whether you are in a Resort in Nasugbu, in one of the towns to get to the far reaches of San Juan,  a farm in Lipa somewhere, or working in one of our Industrial Estates.  The time to act is now.   Join the philippineaction group.