So here is Janette’s Announcement about her program :

The 3rd batch of the Blog and Social Media Entrepreneur Program will start this November 24, 2011.

If you are interested in getting a free slot (wherever you are in the world) in this 3 months program, just reblog this post and share why you want to become a blog and social media entrepreneur.

The program has 3 major modules:

Module 1: Blog Launch, Copywriting, and Social Media Promotions

Module 2: Professional Blogging, Social Media Marketing & Advertising as a Business

Module 3: Make money from Blogging and Social Media as a Service Provider

We launched this Blog and Social Media Entrepreneur Program with the aim of creating a movement – to encourage the growth of online entrepreneurship and serve the growing needs of businesses locally and internationally in this space.

Deadline for submission is 11:59 pm October 30, 2011.

The person with the best response will be announced on October 31, 2011.

Note that if you reblogged but your post is outside of Tumblr, you still need to reblog this post in Tumblr and just add the link to your post.

Hope I can still enter to the program . Check my tumblr. post here

Updates :

I was not able to enter the mentioned Program, for a simple reason that I did not follow the instruction , At first I don’t know how to reblog a post in tumblr.I must admit that I am not always using tumblr. But now this particular post taught me how to reblog in tumblr. At least I learn something today. “ How to Reblog a Tumblr Post ” best of luck to the participants.

“With the iPad app, you get the full Facebook experience, right at your fingertips. It’s a fun way to keep up with friends, share photos, chat and more”, a statement from Leon Dubinsky, a mobile engineer behind this much-awaited news, dubbed as Facebook for iPad.

The Highlights

On your iPad, you can browse whatever fun you have in mind through your News Feed. Just click on the page and you can view bigger and better photos with slide show with your collection of photos friends’ and memories.

It’s easy to navigate since most of the stuff can easily find in the left hand menu, such as games, apps, groups and lists. “Messages and notifications are at the top of every screen, so you can respond to friends and keep up with important updates—without losing your place”, as one of the important features mentioned by Leon.

With the features, users can also switch to a mobile app, such as a game, watch high-res videos inline, record HD video or shopping service. Simply find on the News Feed and click.

iPad users can now get the full experience of fun with friends and families through App Store.

Be informed that Facebook app lacks the timeline feature that was unveiled in the f8 developer conference.

Download Facebook iPad App

Details from Apple App Store

• Free
• Category: Social Networking
• Updated: Oct 10, 2011
• Version: 4.0
• iOS 4.0 Tested
• Size: 10.5 MB
• Languages: English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
• Seller: Facebook, Inc.
• © Facebook, Inc.

The good news is it’s FREE.

Important service announcement:  Vox is closing September 30, 2010

Vox has been a fun place to explore, create and connect with your friends. But Vox is closing its doors on September 30, 2010.

This doesn’t mean you have to say goodbye to your blog. We want you to make sure you can keep the great content you’ve shared on Vox, and continue to have a home for your blog. To help you make the transition off of Vox, we’ve added new export features that make it easy to move your blog to a free TypePad account, and your photos & videos to Flickr.

If you’re an active Vox member we encourage you to read the information below about what’s happening during the month of September, and learn more about how you can migrate your content. There is more information at closing.vox.com.

What you need to know

• Vox is no longer accepting new user registrations.  If you have an existing Vox account you can continue to sign in to manage your account and view posts from your neighborhood.
• On Wednesday September 15th, you will no longer be able to create new posts on Vox or upload new photos or videos. You will still be able to sign in to view your blog and manage your account.
• On Thursday September 30th, your blog will no longer be available at Vox.com, and you will no longer be able to sign in to Vox.

Moving your blog, photos and videos from Vox

To help you make the transition off of Vox, we’ve made it easy for you to move your blog to TypePad and your photos and your videos to Flickr.

• You can move your blog to TypePad, for free. We’ve developed a simple process to help you move your blog to TypePad. If you don’t have a TypePad account, we’ll step you through the process of creating one, help you create a free TypePad blog, and automatically import your Vox posts and photos into your new blog.  Learn how to move your Vox blog to TypePad at closing.vox.com.
• You can export your photos and videos to Flickr. If you used Vox primarily for sharing photos and videos, you may want to export those to Yahoo’s popular photo sharing service Flickr. We’ve developed a simple process that will automatically move your photos and videos to Flickr, while maintaining your privacy settings on your photos. Learn how to export your Vox photos and videos to Flickr at closing.vox.com.

Additionally, the WordPress.com and Posterous services provide tools to help you import your Vox blog. Learn more about the import tools from WordPress.com and Posterous at closing.vox.com.

Thank you for your love and support of Vox over the years.

- Team Vox

This is one reason why I don’t recommend investing your time optimizing your blog post with free site, anything could happen to them. It is always better to pay and host your own. But of you are using those site just to boost your visibility in the net, it will not any problem. Just a reminder for us that it could also happen to other free blog site.

I would like to share you what I have observed yesterday while playing my flickr account.

While checking my Flickr account , I found out that there are visitors that is coming from search engine like google, yahoo and bing. I think most of them are students looking for information about their assignments in school. After evaluating and assessing the data that i gather from the Daily aggregate views on my account.  Check out the tips below.

I would like to share you this tips :

1. Don’t forget to put Title of your pictures being uploaded in flickr. I have about 2000+ pictures in flickr and I think half of it has titles of only numbers , It means that when I uploaded the pictures I made it directly from the camera, without even saying something about the picture. It is a big mistake since most of the search pictures are those pictures with proper name.
2. Don’t forget to put tags, I told you I am lazy with providing information about the picture , tags will really help the searcher in searching about any pictures.
3. Don’t forget to put description in pictures, you can always leave your URL and blog address in the description. Where you want your new found visitors to be redirected. Just leave your blog or site URL wherever possible.
4. Put water mark with your pictures. I just recognize the importance of having a water mark recently.
5. Group the pictures properly to enable your reader or viewers to search properly.

So how could those tips mentioned above could increase your earning potential ? Here are the steps

1. Find the readers
2. They visit your site
3. Give what they want
4. They will sometime click your Google Adsense or become your regular visitors.
5. Then the money will come.

The main idea is to use the power of flickr in Search Engine or flickr search in order to have new converting or regular visitors. I am now making corrections based on the tips I mentioned above. better late than never.

As an additional information I got 400+ page views in one day last week. If only i put my site url on those pictures. I might have new visitors by now.

BTW is am paying $24.95 a year in flickr. But it’s nothing compared to earning potential it can give

You just have to log in to facebook and press http://www.facebook.com/username/

So good luck in claiming your name !!

Incoming search terms:

• how to put a dot in your name on facebook

To get the information they approached 20 top-tier tech bloggers and social media consultants, half of them responded (so this isn’t a massive sample).

Their research only involves a small group of Tech blogger and here is their findings,

Most bloggers getting paid about $25 a post (with the full range being between $10-$200 a post).

• In house/Full time bloggers earn annual pay of between $45,000 to $55,000 (with benefits) and up to $70,000-$90,000 with bonuses.
• The real money seems to be in consulting with hourly rates not below $150 an hour and $300 an hour the most common rate named.

Read the full report and analysis at How Much Do Top Tier Bloggers and Social Media Consultants Get Paid? We Asked Them!

Pictures Credit : Jen Jen

Yahoo Buzz was launched last February of this year. It was tested to about 100 publishers and grew to over 400, since then. It is a great news that Yahoo finally decided to open this to all Yahoo users.

I will update you about my findings to this site. BTW this is another source of back link

Publishers can get their Yahoo Buzz buttons at http://buzz.yahoo.com/buttons and any user can submit content to Yahoo Buzz over at http://buzz.yahoo.com/submit.

The 2 small buttons allows you to submit a particular site to Social media Sites that is shown in below screen capture.

The other button will give you an opportunity to report certain website to the Admin if you think there is something unusual about that site.

It is good that TopBlogs.ph are looking ways to improve their website. So this is an explanation why their site show unusual stats the last days. Good Work and Much Appreciated. I do hope that Topblogs.com.ph will continue to improve their system.

• How To Play Tailgating Games by Dave Lamm
• Fixing a Windows Unmountable Boot Volume by Bret Sweeden
• Twitter: Why It’s So Great And How To Effectively Use It by Tibi Puiu
• How to Target Social Media with Specific Posts by Steven Snell
• 12 Tips for Seniors Accepting Awards by Carolyn Bahm
• How to Improve at Chess by Mark Radford
• How to Blog ? My Top 10 Blogging Tips by Dexter Panganiban
• How to Hire an Attorney by Andrew Flusche
• How To Start A Blogging Business by John Crickett
• How to break religious attitudes and learn from anyone by Robert Henru
• How to Start Reading Blogs by Brad Shorr
• How to Support Our Veterans’ Education Benefits by Kevin Hodges
• How To Run An Awesome Group Writing Project by Jacob Share
• How to Keep Parents Happy When You’re Sticking Them with Cookie Dough by Jim Berigan
• How to SURVIVE a 26.2 Mile Marathon by Sandra Sims
• The (X)HTML Document by LearningNerd

Above you will find the final list of entries. If you like my post which is highlighted in red just make a short post about it and send link to your list of favorites. Voting is open to everyone, even if you didn’t participate in the project. Or you can proceed on the main post and just comment there. In that way you can help me

BTW the best post for me are as follows :

How to Blog ? My Top 10 Blogging Tips by Dexter Panganiban ( Thanks Jacob )

How To Run An Awesome Group Writing Project by Jacob Share

Twitter: Why It’s So Great And How To Effectively Use It by Tibi Puiu

How to Target Social Media with Specific Posts by Steven Snell

So what about you any vote ?

Jennifer Leggio has started a unique campaign to raise much needed money for Team in Training, the fundraising arm of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, which funds medical research for blood cancer cures and provides patient and family support programs.

What is unique on her campaign was using the top Social Media Person in US and Canada to Talk as part of the fund raising, and this Social Media personnel are well know on their respective niche.

She aims to raise $10,000 in doing so.

Here are the Social Media Person who agreed to be part of her Fund Raising campaign :Check out mediaphyter’s Post for other information.

The Players

Chris Brogan uses social media and technology to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. He has merged his experience in technology (enterprise IT and wireless telephony) with his passion for social media,  Full details available on the Chris Brogan eBay auction site.

Joseph Jaffe is one of the most sought after consultants, speakers and thought leaders on new marketing. He is president and “chief interuptor” at crayon, a strategic advisory group that helps companies “join the conversation” through the power of community, dialogue and partnership. Full details available on the Joseph Jaffe eBay auction site.

Geoff Livingston has worked as a marketing strategist in the Washington, DC region for 15 years. Dubbed a “local blogging guru” by the Washington Post, Geoff’s Buzz Bin blog is nationally recognized, and is the top ranked independent PR blog in the Washington, DC region. Full details available on the Geoff Livingston eBay auction site.

Aaron Strout is vice president of social media at Mzinga, a Burlington, Massachusetts-based provider of online communities and social networks for businesses. Full details available on the Aaron Strout eBay auction site.

Greg Verdino is a recognized expert on business and marketing innovation, emerging technologies and Web 2.0. Equal parts marketer and futurist,  Full details available on the Greg Verdino eBay auction site.

A great list of highly paid speakers willing to do it for a cause.

I just wonder if this type of Fund Raising is possible to happen in Philippines for the good cause of in need. How I wish I can hear something like this happening soon in Philippines.

I also did this as my part of helping her campaign since half of my visitors do come from USA. BTW I saw this campaign via Google Alert.