Welcome Jonas and Clair!
October 6, 2005Let’s welcome artiste extrordinaire Jonas Diego and uber-techie Clair Ching into the Blogger Program!
Here are their websites:
Jonas:
Clair:
Incidentally, Jonas is also selling e-books / e-comics on the Blurb Extreme via i.PH Pay4Access. Why not check out his works there?
Alrighty then! Anyone else want to join? We’ve been receiving email from quite a number of bloggers wanting to get in the program … we’re waiting for your response! 
Welcome, Jamie Lihan!
October 3, 2005Let’s welcome Jamie Lihan to the i.PH Blogger Program! Jamie is one of our i.PH featured bloggers. As a photographer, she likes showcasing her works on the web.
Her first posts for the i.PH Blogger Program:
See more of her writings and photographs at http://lihan.i.ph.
Jepoy reviews i.PH email-to-post
September 21, 2005i.PH Blogger Jepoy reviews the email-to-post feature.
I’ve finally finished designing my ITlog on i.ph and it’s now time to post something. The feature I liked most here on Blogger is the ability to post an entry via email. This feature is very useful especially to bloggers on the road. You can post entries on the fly by just sending an email using your laptop or cellphone.
Pretty good suggestions, too, Jepoy.
For more information on the email-to-post feature, check this out.
Let’s welcome Anthony
Let’s all welcome Anthony to the i.PH Blogger program. He will start blogging about i.PH this week. His blog is my world in a shell.
We’ll wait for your reviews, Anthony.
Two new participants in the i.PH Blogger Program!
(This post was moved from news.i.ph - September 15, 2005)
Let’s welcome two new participants in the i.PH Blogger Program:
- simple.whitelady - http://halohaloespesyal
.blogspot.com, http://ladywhitespirit.blogspot .com - Jepoy Bengero - http://jepoyeng.blogspot.com
This gets the total number of participants to 4! Participants who started just this Sunday:
- Ka Edong - http://technobiography.blogspot
.com - Kira - http://earthangel.i.ph
What people are saying about i.PH
(This is re-posted from news.i.ph - September 13, 2005)
Under the i.PH blogger program, bloggers, both i.PH and non-i.PH alike, were invited to write about the service on their respective blogs.
Here are a couple of initial entries:
I finally convinced Eddie to abandon his Friendster blog and create his own blog in i.ph. Yay! My first recruit! Hehe! If there’s anything that I love to share, it’s i.PH. The people have been so good to me and prompt in their service that it’s not hard to take in pride in having an i.PH blog.
So what is i.ph? It’s a blogging service by Dot.ph, the domain name registry for the Philippines. I remember that behind i.ph was a content management system (CMS) called “Calliope”. Sounds foreign-jer, doesn’t it? The whole time, I thought that it was French or Italian. Only recently did I discover that Calliope is a locally developed CMS. And it’s been two years in the making, I hear. Whew! It’s been in the making that long and I came to know about it only about ten months ago?! Where’s it been for so long?
Watch out for more. We’ll keep you posted. If you’re interested to participate, please check out the mechanics and email jangelo@domains.ph for more details.
Earning from the i.PH Blogger Program
(This is reposted from news.i.ph - September 13, 2005)
i.PH has recently come up with a blogger program, in which we invite a handful of bloggers to blog about i.PH in exchange for a nominal compensation.
We basically operate on a full-disclosure arrangement because, well, we feel that it’s the honorable thing to do. Hence we are posting updates here, both to inform bloggers, i.PH and non-i.PH alike, who may wish to join.
The initial run is for four weeks (one month). So far, we have two active bloggers who have agreed to participate:
If you are interested, please send an email to jangelo@domains.ph so we can evaluate your blog. We are currently only accommodating active and regular bloggers who have a reasonably good following (i.e., blogging for at least six months, with at least two blog posts per week on average). But if you think it’s worth a try, then we’re just an email away.
Here are the mechanics:
- Blog posting. Participants are to post 2 quality articles about i.PH per week. Length should be at least 2 paragraphs each. These may be in form of a review or any commentary about the service. This is to be done in the participant’s main blog (whether hosted by i.PH or other services). The blog post should likewise clearly identify and have a link to the i.PH homepage.
- i.PH Logo - Participants are to display the i.PH logo (with an active link to the i.PH homepage) prominently on their sites (i.e. on the sidebar). We shall provide participants with a choice of logos you may include in their blogs.
- Comment posting. Participants are to post at least 20 comments each week on other blogs (may or may not be friends or contacts) referring them to the articles posted on their own blogs, and to i.PH as a service as well. So as not to be tagged as spam, these should be relevant and specific to the blog posts being responded to. An example scenario would be a participant responding to a post with photos, and commenting that i.PH has a built-in photo gallery and photo blog, and that the participant has written about it in his/her own site.
- Full disclosure. Participants are to disclose that they are part of the program; i.PH shall likewise name, and link to, participants and their blogs. This can be viewed as a mutual publicity/traffic-generation between the i.PH site and the participants’.
The i.PH team will be sending the participants information packets and links to relevant sites, for reference. The participants shall likewise touch base with the i.PH team on a regular basis to provide links to new blog posts and comments.
Why are we doing this? It’s because we feel it’s high time people learned more about the i.PH service, spread the word to their friends, and earn some money while they’re at it. 
