Nuffnang Singapore’s First Bloggers’ Symposium – Sponsored by Canon
Jerome Castaneda at Nuffnang, SMU
I just attended the Singapore’s First Bloggers’ Symposium at Singapore Management University, School of Accountancy, Level 2, Kong Si Auditorium. If it was not from my facebook friend, Richard Macalintal, I might not be able to attend this cool event.
The event started at 1:30pm with a welcome speech from Nuffnang then followed by a showcase of top 5 photographs for a Mini Photo Contest with the theme about happiness. Geez, I wish I had some photos that I can share with you because my top choice was indeed a runaway winner. It was a cute little child holding and kissing a red balloon drenched over fountain of water. We had our little Tea Break at around 2:30 pm and at the same time voting for our favorite photo for the contest.
At 3:15, we went to our choice of individual workshops from the 5 top bloggers. I went to TechieLobang by Joe Teh with 3 of my new pinoy cyber friends. By the way, I frequently heard about the word “lobang” from most of my singaporean friends. So for non-locals like me, this Malay term means – a hole but more popularly known as an opportunity in a business sense or money making. Anyway, I did not learn that from the workshop. Joe showed us more on the techniques of taking photo shots especially through an endorsed Canon Powershot S90. Some of its cool features were dual anti-noise system which can take images at low light by minimizing the noise; large aperture to allow more light to get breathtaking shots; a control ring to precisely control zooms, exposure, focus and balance. He highly recommended to use wordpress and showed us some cool free themes that we can use.
So the future (its been happening already) of blogging is about showing pictures from whatever situation or niche you are in. Videos of course are very much recommended.
For me, the best part of the symposium was connecting to newfound friends from the cyber world.
Nuffnagers took the center stage at Kong Si Auditorium
Joe Teh's TechieLobang Seminar
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Thank You 2009 and An Exciting 2010 Goals!
WOW! 2009 will be my most memorable year! It was the year where I learned to develop my skills in internet marketing. My objective at that time was to learn how I can generate more leads to my network marketing business through pay per click. I learned more than what I expected and the thought of passive residual income while you sleep is such an inevitable and powerful tool. Internet marketing is such a lonely business if you do it by yourself so I highly recommend that you find a mentor just like when you enroll to get a college degree. I developed my skills in the field of search engine marketing – both in search engine optimization and Google adwords. It was my first time to buy a domain name for jeromecastaneda.com and learned to use this powerful blog resource of WordPress. Actually, I managed to rank on the first page for some keywords about my blog. Woohoo! I was able to dominate almost all the sites on the first page for my name Jerome Castaneda and hope to totally dominate it next year 2010. Indeed, wordpress is the king!
I had the chance to attend Tony Robbins Unleashed the Power Within 4 day’s seminar at the Singapore Expo. In those 4 days I had the chance to shape my destiny in my thoughts and managed to do a firewalker on burning coals. It was also in this event that I truly take care about my health especially the food that I ate. I just developed the love for green stuffs, vegetables and fruits. Wow, it was truly an awesome time to remember.
It was the year where I regularly attended a Personal Excellence and Growth Meetup with great life coaches, Mr. Patrick Lim and Ms. Jessica See. I’ve met like minded people and exchanged life experiences and philosophies to grow and become the person that I want to be. There were 2 things that I learned if you want to succeed or grow in life, 1. the people you know or associate with and 2. the books that you’ve read.
2009 was the year I started to grow my spiritual relationship with the Lord God through CFC-FFL Singapore (Couples for Christ – Foundation for Family and Life) as a member for the Servants of the Lord (SOLD) group. Here I got the chance to meet God filled spirited people where there’s no inhibitions about telling your personal challenges in life. Here we prayed for each one’s personal success, family and health miracles. I highly suggest to any individual to join a spiritual or religious group especially if you’re working away from your family just like me.
Now, some people (especially with hardcore employee mindsets) may ask me why on earth should I spend much time learning stuffs that is outside of my job skills as a Mechanical Engineer. My answer is very simple my friend, I have Big Dreams. I am taking Jim Rohn’s advise to work hard on myself than what I do on my job. Personal development builds up my character and my attitude at work. I have the power of concentration and the focus to become a very productive engineer not only at work but with my relationship and communication with my colleagues.
As I looked forward about my 2010 goals, I am very excited about the potential person I can become. Year 2010 will be the start of my 10 year master plan. I’ll continue the commitment of my never ending personal development blog, to become the best father to my son and a loving husband to my wife. I’ll continue to read or listen to books or audiobooks, to meet like minded individuals in personal development and internet marketing fields. I’ll continue to work and apply my skills in internet marketing, to help local businesses generate more sales to their business. I’ll continue to take care of my health by having a regular exercise and watch out on the food that I take. Most of all, I’ll continue to praise and worship God for all the blessings and for the person I become.
