Highlights of the Digital Influencers Marketing Summit

After the Laguna Blogging Summit, I attended the Digital Influencers Marketing Summit. Am I a summit addict now? I guess ever since I attended iBlog8: The 8th Philippine Blogging Summit, I’m like, I want more!

The Cybercrime Law

The hottest topic of the summit was the Cybercrime Law. Atty. JJ Disini started his discussion by saying that when legislators crafted this bill, they had Business Process Outsourcing companies in mind.

BPO companies were afraid of doing business in the Philippines because their data wasn’t protected by the law. In case of a breach in their private data, they wanted to make sure that there were legal courses that they could use to penalize those hackers.

The problem is, legislators did not realize that the BPOs were not the only ones who were custodians of information. Every person is a custodian of information, and that is why everyone will be affected by this bill.

So the purpose of the bill is well meaning, but Atty. Disini said the way it is crafted is “sloppy”, and more so it is dangerous because certain provisions open the floodgates to abuse.

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Highlights of the First Laguna Blogging Summit

Ever since I attended iBlog8: The 8th Philippine Blogging Summit, I promised myself that I will be more active in the blogging community. On September 27, I headed off to Santa Cruz to attend a two-day event called The Laguna Blogging Summit.

My mom didn’t want me to go there all alone, so she decided to accompany me. Anyway blogger din naman ako, she reasoned. She had only one blog post before she attended this event, but sige na nga.

I was ok with it in the end because I wanted to encourage my mom to continue blogging. She’s a writer too, and I know she will write awesome posts.

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Facebook and Twitter September 2012 Posts

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Inspiring Quotes

• “You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backward…So you have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even if it leads you off the well worn path, and that will make all the difference.”–Steve Jobs
• “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”– Albert Einstein
• “I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.”– Thomas Edison
• “Fake it till you make it.”
• “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”–J.K. Rowling
• “I go by instinct–I don’t worry about experience.”–Barbra Streisand
• “A recent study shows that the heart grows weaker everytime we do something opposite of what we feel.”–Reader’s Digest
• “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”–H. Jackson Brown Jr.
• “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”– Steve Jobs
• “All you need is 20 seconds of insane courage and I promise you something great will come out of it.”–Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo
• “Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity.”
• “All visionaries are loony; the progress of the human species has been determined by individuals who have no great desire to be normal.”–Jessica Zafra, Dante’s Subirbia, Twisted 3
• “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.”
• “Never give up on something you can’t go a day without thinking about.”
• “Be the kind of woman who, when your feet hit the floor in the morning, the Devil says, ‘Oh no, she’s up.’”
• “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”― John Lennon
• “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”–Jalal ad-Din Rumi
• “Thanks for the adventure–Now go have a new one!”–Ellie’s note written on the scrapbook, Up
• “Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart. “–Anne Frank
• “Know your own happiness. Want for nothing but patience — or give it a more fascinating name: Call it hope.”–Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
• “My, what beautiful blossoms we have this year. But look, this one’s late. But I’ll bet that when it blooms, it will be the most beautiful of all. “–Fa Zhou, Mulan

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Facebook and Twitter: Summary of Posts until Aug 31, 2012

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Writing Stuff

• Every article about writing starts with one advice: write.
• Don’t try to be original. Try to speak the truth. Whatever that truth is for you.
• When I feel insecure about my writing skills, I tell myself: it’s not your place to criticize; your responsibility is to write.
• Whenever I feel lost and confused, and I start thinking, what am I going to do with my life? the universe gives me one answer: just write.
• I’ve written it already. Problem is, it’s still stuck inside my head.
• There’s always time to read a book.
• Write as a way of thinking, to track down thoughts, to be free on paper. Tracking down thoughts is like tracking down light–it’s a speed, a collection of particles; it’s not a formula, not a rigid block.
• Art is but an occurrence of beauty after constant creation.
• Just write.

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Tweet Tweet: Pentel of America Retweeted My Blog Post

How to Upcycle an Old Bag Using Masking Tape and Pentel Pens

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