My Wordcamp 2008 Experience

by ChiQ 15th September 2008 | 42 comments

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My Wordcamp Philippines 2008 experience was a blast! I arrived in Manila a day before the big event for the Wordcamp Ingress. As a volunteer, I was assigned to take care of the Wordcamp Kits and assist in the Registration. During the ingress, I got to meet the Mindanao Bloggers group (organizers) and my fellow Volunteers. I stayed longer that day because I was having so much fun just trying to get to know everyone.. they were suprised that I actually had to travel from Cagayan de Oro to Manila just to join..

Wordcamp 2008

Check out more Pix Here (some are not mine.. thanks to melo, drew, shari, jehz.. and others for letting me steal them, lol).

So on the Big Day itself, I was totally energized and was up and ready for anything! I started with running through the badges given out to every camper during the registration. Prepared the kits, around 400 bags I guess.. we counted it but I can’t remember the exact number anymore. During Lunch, I was this little creature getting in their way at the Entrance repeatedly saying “Badge pls, have it scanned and grab your lunch!” Lol!

Thanks to our Student Volunteers from the Computer Business Association and the Association of Information Management of the College of St. Benilde. Who made our lives easier.. I even managed to persuade some of them to join the fun world of Blogging!

The highlight of the event for me was to meet Filipino Bloggers and WordPress Enthusiasts.. An entire day talking about Page Rank, Google Adsense, Alexa Rank, DoFollow/NoFollow, Technorati etc.. etc.. never got me tired. I was with people who are in the same wave length as I am. Our jokes were very geeky and yet have remained very funny! I hope to be able to attend more Bloggers/Blogging Event in the future.. it wasn’t just a mere exchange of Business Cards or Website URL’s, rather it was about establishing solid friendships that could go along way. By the way, thanks for inviting me to plurk! Lol! I am now starting to get addicted to it.

Too bad though, I never got to join any sessions. I would have wanted to listen on Wordpress for Corporate Websites by Hans Koch. It’s a direction I’d love to take later on.. Mr. Hans, it was a pleasure to have finally meet you. Thank you for the compliments on my designs.. He was even kind enough to introduce me to Mr. Danny Quitoriano who in turn introduced me to Mr Wordpress himself, Matt. Yeahp, got to talk to Matt about what I do and my site. Gave him my business card and all.. as someone who supports WordPress, it’s truly a privilege to get to know the guy who created it.

DoFollow link love to my fellow volunteers Melo, Gwen, Fitz , Jonnel, Shari, Paul, Rein, Jehz, Arbet, Arpee, Fritz.

Congratulations to the Organizers Blogie, Ria Jose, Migs, Drew, Batang Yagit, Juned for the successful event.

Lastly, you rock Matt Mullenweg! Don’t worry.. I’ll keep on releasing Free WordPress Themes on this site for everybody to download.

See you all on WordCamp 2009!

More Pictures from Wordcamp 2008:

0. WordCamp Philippines 2008 by Jehzeel Laurente
1. WordCamp 2008 Photos by Jayvee Fernandez
2. First WordCamp in Southeast Asia by Hannah Rika Villasis
3. WordCamp Philippines 2008 by Tess Termulo
4. WordCamp Philippines by Ada Lajara
5. WordCamp 2008 by Regnard Raquedan
6. WordCamp Philippines 2008 by AJ Matela
7. WordCamp at Benilde by Normz
8. WordCamp Philippines 2008 by Micaela Rodriguez
9. Wordpress Philippines 2008 by Shari
10. WordCamp Philippines by Sofimi
11. WordCamp Philippines 2008 by Andrew Dela Serna
12. WordCamp Candy by Flair Candy

Check out the Complete List Here compiled by Jehz.

wow may post ka na thanks for the link! ^___^ yiheeeeeee!

Thanks so much for volunteering!

Weee! It was really nice meeting you. *insert banana dance emoticon*

WOW .. I liked the smiling faces. You guys really had fun. After seeing this post i miss my student life

Glad you had a blast! Cheers!

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Wow kainggit naman. I hope I can attend next WordCamp. It would have been nice to meet the bloggers I stalk online. That includes you ChiQ. Hehehe

ditto. i had to travel from the US just to join!

Wow, ate…

It excites me… But I never heard of WordCamp Malaysia…

Glad to finally meet you also

When you moving to Makati? hahaha

The Wordcamp seems to be so interesting. I wish we have such an activity in my country. And.. I’m jealous you had the chance to meet and talk with Mr Wordpress, Matt~!!!

Wow! New post.
Is that Matt? such a cutie.

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Hey …

great post….
and nice pictures

Hey T-shirt is so good, can i get a T-shirt?….

U r so lucky to meet all of them…

I am glad that you had a great time and also that you are back to blogging. Welcome back. I have missed you.

cool post. we blogger users can only watch with envy. :O

Hey there again ChiQ! Waaaaaaaaaaaaah! Di ako nakasama sa party Hoppe you remember me
Hope to see you again, too! Hugs!

Wow ang saya naman! Congratulations to all of you guys!

Great event hosted down at manila. Hope to have such an event hosted in my country as well. Perhaps I will start one?

@Wei Lang: You should! Then invite Matt..

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Nasaan yung picture mo?

A good post…

the 4th one…
i think.

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Who is a young lady? The smile on her face is very nice.

Very nice pic, Looks like they had so much fun..

Sounds like yopu had a down right amazing time. A good break to take.

Manilla is already a great place to have fun. Again since you’re there for Word Camp, I am sure you had a blast.

ganda naman ng pics nyong dalawa ni matt,

Hey kosol,
i think its chiq..

Chiq, ‘
what happend no posts at all

Yup, ang ganda nga! Pa-frame mo kaya yan

love

I’m attending on the next WP event, for sure

I’ve never made it to one of these. Sounds really cool though. I’ve been using WP for many years now… I used to use TextPad before that… hard to believe.

We have bloggers meeting in my country but they never invite Mr.Wordpress himself. Aiks..

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