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Blogs as the new game show 

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Donated a copy of Blogging from Home to Charles Sturt Library Labels: book donation, charles sturt library findon


Book Buyers at the Manila Book Launch

Last August 13 to 15, I finally had the Manila book launch for Blogging from Home during the 2nd Internet and Mobile Marketing Summit.

As I was also tied up doing moderating and speaking assignment, I never got the chance to meet all who purchased the book. Some that I was able to meet agreed to have their photo taken and be posted here. Many thanks to the following:
Several club members also dropped by at the event:
If you have bought a copy of the book, feel free to e-mail me a picture of you holding the book with a link to your blog. I will post it here. Thank you!
Posted by Janette Toral at 4:48 PM View Comments Labels: blogging book launch, book buyers photo, internet and mobile marketing association of the philippines


One thousand books delivered

Earlier today, the book Blogging from Home was finally delivered. I am so excited upon seeing it. At the same time, nervous as this will be released tomorrow.

As you'll notice, the book not only contains your usual text and screen shots, it also has mind maps that can be used as reference before and after reading the book. Last Monday morning, I also got the chance to guest at Mornings @ ANC Money Matters segment with Ron Cruz. We talked about making money online through e-commerce and problogging. This gave opportunity for the book to be plugged on television. (Thanks Heinz for considering me as a guest) I also contacted blogger Flowell who works at ABS-CBN and say hi. He just won a free delegate pass for an event I'm promoting.

Usually, ANC guests are given proper make-up and hair fix prior to the interview. Thanks to this, I was able to appear more formal during the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs eyeball event. I was almost tempted to mention before the end of the event, "I'd like to thank the ANC make-up staff for my hair and make-up. LOL!"

I'm not sure how many books I'll be able to sell this week although I'm wishfully hoping to dispose 300 books for cost recovery. We'll see how soon shall I be able to achieve that and post it here.

See you at the book launch of Blogging from Home! this August 13 to 15 at Hotel Intercontinental Makati during the 2nd Internet and Mobile Marketing Summit.
Posted by Janette Toral at 8:09 PM View Comments Labels: blogging book launch, blogging from home, tv guesting at anc


Photo shoot at Photosynthesis I never got the chance to have a photo shoot that can be used as author images for the book. Fortunately, I had one last Monday for the Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines at Mario Babiera's Photosynthesis studio. It was raining very hard on that day and just had to do with whatever I had at that time. Here are some of the shots that I really liked. Mario Babiera's PhotoSynthesis is located at the 7th floor of GMA-Loubel Building, corner Pasong Tamo and Bagtikan Streets, Makati City. Their contact number is 8956828.
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Blogging from Home book launch preparations

The Blogging from Home book launch preparations will further escalate this week. As an event like this can only happen once, all efforts must be made to get it done right. This includes:
Video complement
Last Wednesday, I shot a Blogging from Home video tutorial series with Buddy Gancenia. Through Justin.TV, partial, raw, and unedited footage was captured that includes outline planning, introduction, anatomy of a blog, finding blogs, creating a blog, keywords identification and Technorati registration, tracking visitors with MyBlogLog, how to use Ping, among others.

Watch more live video from Janette Toral on Justin.tv
I'll be posting the Camtasia and final editions soon. This will accompany the discussion questions that shall be posted online for readers to share their experience and ask follow-up questions.

At first, my idea was to sell the finished videos in a DVD. Got worried though that it might just get pirated easily and re-posted online. With that, the video tutorial materials will instead be posted here to further support the book.
Posted by Janette Toral at 10:07 PM View Comments Labels: book delivery, book distribution, book promotion, video tutorial