Three BNS hosted websites were awarded winners in the Digital Filipino Web Awards 2009 and was awarded in the recently concluded Digital Filipino Summit 2009. National Council on Disability Affairs for the Association / Organization Category, Proudly Filipina for the Community Category and the City of Zamboanga for the Government Category.
BNS would also like to extend its congratulations to the rest of the HERE
For the event pictures, please click HERE.
Congratulations to the Official Website of Zamboanga City for winning the Best website in the Government category in the Digital Filipino Web Awards 2009.
Google together with the Commission on Information and Communications Technology, GoNegosyo, Philippine Marketing Association, Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions and STI launched the Philippines Business Stimulus Package.
The packages offers the following for Small and Medium Enterprises:
1. Free advertising on Google – get PhP2,000 worth of Google Adwords credits.
2. Website development from STI. The first 200 qualified businesses get it for free. For those who don’t meet the cut-off you can have it made for only PhP3,000.
Hurry and sign-up HERE
Cloud enablement leader, Parallels Inc, is announcing the long-awaited availability of its Parallels Bare Metal 4, a hypervisor-based solution, and the Parallels Containers 4.5 for Windows.
The announcement of the new solutions – widely seen as the new “gold” standard for public clouds – closely follows the succesful inaugural cloud-focused Parallels APAC Summit 2009 on 25th Sep 2009 in Singapore, during which the Parallels team shared details of the company’s expansion plans.
Benefits to Cloud Services providers
1. Most profitable and best time-to-market: Drop-in integration into an existing Parallels Container environment
2. Enables widest range of services
* Offer cloud-based mode, replacement to low-end dedicated servers, development environment, server consolidation, bundles and more
* Expand virtualization revenue streams
3. Lowest support and operational costs
* Self-servcie and delegated management tools
* Tools, APIs and CLIs to manage both VMs and Containers
* Streamlined management of mixed environment reduced training time and needs for admin staff
With Parallels new offerings, cloud services providers can choose the best server virtualization approach: Container-based services or hypervisor-based services.
Advantages of the Parallels Server Bare Metal 4
The Parallels Server Bare Metal 4 – which is available from 7th Oct 2009 – has the following advantages:
– Powerful hypervisor for max performance
– Leverages on Intel VT-x and AMD-v technologies*
– Proven solution that leverages Parallels’ award-winning Parallels Virtuozzo containers and Parallels Desktop wth FastLane architecture
– Full-featured solution with complete set of service delivery and life-cycle management tools.
The Parallels Server Bare Metal solution will be available in multiple editions, including:
– Service Providers edition;
– Standard edition (standalone hypervisor) which includes unlimited hypervisorVMs on a single server and the Parallels Virtual Automation license; and
– Advanced edition (combined containers and hypervisors) which includes unlimited hypervisor VMs and unlimited Linux containers and Parallels Virtual Automation license.
This is to inform the public that the text messages that has been spreading all through out, stating that the San Roque Multipurpose dam in San Manuel, Pangasinan has cracked is totally FALSE. We got the confirmation direct from San Roque and this is what they have to say:
“This is to assure the public – San Roque Dam is INTACT. There is no crack. There will be no dam break. The dam is strong and firm.” -Tom Valdez, Vice President, San Roque Power Corp.
From Ms Janette Toral:
The DigitalFilipino E-Commerce Summit 2009 is an intensive 2-day educational seminar on e-commerce strategies scheduled to take place on November 12 & 13, 2009 at the Hotel Intercontinental, Makati City.
We hope to make this an annual event that will provide an additional venue for learning among DigitalFilipino club members (http://www.e-commercephilippines.com).
The event will focus on best practices (what to do, what not to do, execution, measurement) and we would like to have a great roster of resource persons who can share their insight & lessons learned.
We requested speakers to deliver talks on a big-picture perspective (keynote-style) discussing findings and insight that they haven’t mostly shared before but still reflective of their respective experiences.
We are targeting 150 to 200 participants for this event. Main audience will be DigitalFilipino club members, DigitalFilipino Web Awards past and current entries/winners, DigitalFilipino Social Networking Awards winners, SMEs, enterprises, and entrepreneurs at large.
Conference Program
Attendees to this event can expect a highly-interactive session with e-commerce players and industry practitioners. Topics in the agenda includes (subject to change):
November 12 (Day 1):
7:30 to 9:00 Registration & morning snacks
9:00 to 9:30 Welcome & Big Picture theme introduction
State of Internet and Mobile Commerce Market Growth
Speaker: Donald Patrick Lim, President and CEO of Yehey! Corporation 9:30 to 10:00
Has Internet and Mobile Commerce taken off in the Philippines? What are the numbers? Are the Filipinos today really buying online? A look into the latest market study with cross analysis on the technographic and psychographic behavior of our new generation of digital sellers and buyers.
Building and Managing an E-Commerce, Internet Gaming, and Outsourcing Business during a Global Economic Crisis
Speaker: Enrique Gonzalez, CEO of IPVG Corp.
10:15 to 10:45
Creating a Niche and Identifying Your Online Target Market
Speaker: Stephanie Caragos, President and CEO of Syntactics Inc.
11:00 to 11:30
Creating an e-commerce website is not merely the act of having the site developed and launched. Careful study and analysis plays an important role in identifying the target market and knowing how to attract it. Insight on potential customers helps in strategic positioning of your products and services.
Lunch break
Search Engine Friendly Web Design: Making Site Visitors Click!
Speakers:
Jan Alvin Pabellon, Vice President for Business Development at IT Group, Inc.
Arnold Alvarez, General Manager, BF Homes Properties 1:00 to 1:30
Improve your rankings, increase your visits, and make more money by building a web site that is attractive to both automated search engines and real live people. Discover how “search engine friendly” web design can help you get more traffic from search engines. Speakers will share experience in making their sites search engine friendly, launching additional websites to improve rankings, get more visits, and consequently improved revenues and bottom line.
The End of Faceless Brands: How the Internet has Forced Brand Marketing to Personalize
Speaker: Brad Geiser, Co-Founder, GeiserMaclang Marketing Communications
1:45 to 2:15
One of the reasons why there are few companies in the Philippines who invest in e-Commerce is due to the perception that it is just a business structure and has not yet explored the idea of e-Commerce as a marketing tool. This discussion gives an overview on how some social marketing experiments have turned in groundbreaking results.
(Other topics with speakers to be finalized)
– Payment programs and platforms catering from mainstream to unbanked market segments.
– Making self-service advertising platforms work for you.
– Improving e-commerce website performance
– Tracking website analytics & e-commerce sales performance
November 13 (Day 2):
7:30 to 9:00 Registration & morning snacks
9:00 to 9:30 Welcome & Day 1 Summary
E-Commerce Policies and E-Government Growth in the Philippines
Speaker: Dir. Maria Lourdes Yaptinchay, Supervising Director, Department of Trade and Industry E-Commerce Office 9:30 to 10:00
An update on e-commerce policies approved and for ratification to push the growth of e-commerce in the Philippines. Government e-commerce transaction growth in dealing with stakeholders, citizens, customers, and businesses shall also be discussed.
Building Online Trust: Making E-Commerce Secure Against Fraud
Speakers:
Jovel Cipriano, CEO, PinoyDelikasi
Mannix Pabalan, General Manager, AyosDito.ph
10:15 to 10:45
The intricacies of E-commerce have provided merchants with a host of interesting challenges. Perhaps the biggest challenge is establishing and maintaining trust. Spam, fraud, identity theft and fly-by-night e-retailers threaten consumers’ fragile trust in online marketplaces, particularly those in which they are asked to provide credit card information. Trust becomes a key issue in the buying process. Winning the customers’ trust and increasing their confidence is essential for E-commerce success.
E-Commerce as a viable retail market outlet for SMEs
Speakers:
– Ma. Regina Bundang, CEO, RegaloService.com
– Russell Ri, CEO, e-Philippines Adventure Travel and Destinations 11:00 to 11:30
Entrepreneurs will share their experience in putting up an e-commerce site, working with partners, challenges, lessons learned, market changes, and tips to aspiring entrepreneurs who would like to expand their business online.
(Other topics with speakers to be finalized)
– Internet and mobile banking growth.
– New technologies to make e-commerce easier
PLUS! The summit will be the venue for recognition of the top Philippine E-Commerce sites as DigitalFilipino.com opens the nomination for the 3rd DigitalFilipino Web Awards (http://digitalfilipinowebawards.blogspot.com).
Free conference pass to DigitalFilipino Club members: (to become a club member, visit http://www.e-commercephilippines.com and process the membership fee online)
– individual members (1 day, participate themselves, no proxy)
– SME members (1 representative per day)
– Corporate members (2 representatives per day)
Additional club member and sponsor delegates are entitled to 15% discount. Register today to confirm your seat at http://www.e-commercephilippines.com/digitalfilipino-e-commerce-summit.html
Calling all developers! Check out Microsoft’s new program to help startup web developers lower their operating costs and license subsidies! http://www.microsoft.com/web/websitespark/
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Our thanks to the organizers specially JJ and the rest of his staff. Special thanks to Sergey for helping with some of our technical queries!
BNSHosting President, Mr Wilson L. Chua will be attending the Parallels APAC Summit 2009 to be held on Sept 25, 2009 at the Grand Copthorn Hotel, in Havelock Road, Singapore.
Attendees to the APAC Summit can expect to:
Gain insight on your industry and upcoming market trends
Hear strategies on building your company and growing revenue in this economic climate
Foster relationships and form partnerships that help strengthen your business and the market
Learn about upcoming Parallels’ initiatives and provide feedback
For the 3rd year in a row, the Search Engine Marketing Conference 2009 (SEMCON 2009) is all set to happen this October 1-2, 2009 at the Hotel Intercontinental, Makati City, Philippines. We’ll have a whole new line-up of search marketing topics to fill the 2-day conference shared by practicing internet marketing and SEO experts.
Hard-core topics include SEO Ranking Factors for 2009, Writing Killer PPC Ad Copy, Twisted Twitter Tactics, Video SEO and Extreme Local SEO Tactics.
For marketing and agency professionals, we have sessions like — See the Big and the Small Picture using Web Analytics, How to Measure Online Media Values, 20 Ways to Build Your Brand Online, and How to Run a Successful Internet Marketing Agency.
If you want to register or learn more about the conference, please call Fiera de Manila Inc. at the following numbers: +632 896.06.39, 896.06.37, 899.62.16 or email fiera@info.com.ph or log to http://www.imvsolutions.com
SemCon 2009 is brought to you by IMVSolutions