The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) is inviting Mindanao bloggers, citizen media and journalists to an investigative reporting seminar. This PCIJ investigative reporting seminar will touch on political clans, governance and journalists’ safety.
This seminar is open to mid-career and senior Filipino journalists, citizen media, bloggers, researchers, anchors, producers, news managers, editors, contributors, freelance reporters, stringers of print, TV, radio and online media. Mindanao bloggers covering public policy issues are also eligible.
Application deadline: June 10, 2013.
This PCIJ investigative reporting seminar will be held on July 25 to 28, 2013.
Seminar topics include:
• Media Killings, Political Violence, and Impunity in the Philippines
• Political Clans: Past and Future Links
• The Government’s Purse: Tracking the State’s Resources
• Ethics and Safety: Field and Newsroom Judgment Calls
• The Fundamentals of Investigative Reporting
• Tracking the Investigative Trails
- The Paper Trail: Understanding, Connecting, and Organizing Documents and
- The People Trail: The Art of the Interview
• Putting the Story Together (for print, broadcast, and multimedia)
Qualified participants will receive round-trip transportation, board and lodging during the seminar. PCIJ will also provide a modest fellowship grant for story proposals that will be approved during or immediately after the seminar.
Interested applicants can send their applications via email. Please write to training@pcij.org Please state ‘Application to Basic IR Seminar’ on the subject line. For further inquiries, please call the PCIJ Training Desk at (02) 410-4768
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I have so much respect for people and organizations that champion alternative sources of energy for clean and reliable electrical power production!
Currently, we depend largely on hydropower plants. Some electric cooperatives also use several solar panels to augment their sources of energy (Cagayan de Oro’s CEPALCO has a solar panel area) and we all know about the Bangui Wind Farm in Ilocos Norte.
But what about production of electricity without doing much harm to the environment? What about affordable electricity brought about by alternative-energy technologies? Gasification is a solution! Gasification is a process of converting organic or carbon-containing matter into synthetic gas or syngas which could be used to generate electricity. I’m particularly interested with this because we have solid waste areas around the country and this is a great way to convert that to energy! Gasification is even a cleaner alternative to incineration.
Check out how gasification works:
Gasification technology also efficiently produces electrical power with nearly zero emissions! How’s that for caring for Mother Earth?
Good thing there’s now a science-driven company based in Asia that’s set to make waves in helping provide low-cost electricity. Singapore-based NRGLab Pte. Ltd. is now capable of producing environmentally friendly generators – which are more efficient and definitely less expensive. NRGLab uses new and modified technologies to process coal, natural gas, rice husk and even APG into fuel. This results in lower costs.
Read more about the NRGLab Gasification Program and support their gasification project by sharing this post! These guys have a program that, in my opinion, Philippine government leaders, businessmen and non-government organizations should look into.
Thanks so much!
NRGLab Company: www.nrglab.asia
NRGLab’s Gasification Project: http://nrglab.asia/projects/gasificationprogram.html
The Fund of entrepreneurs-inventors: www.anashell.com
Viscoil Holdings: www.viscoil.com
NRGLab’s YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/NRGLABSGD
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The main reason why I was in Cebu City several days ago was to speak at the Social Media Influencers Summit 2013, touted as the largest gathering of social media enthusiasts in the Visayas. It was truly an honor to be one of the speakers especially since the lineup boasted of a lot of prominent online and social media personalities as well as thought leaders like Maria Ressa (CEO of Rappler.com) and Leah Besa-Jimenez (SMART).
The Social Media Influencers Summit 2013 was held at J Centre Convention Hall, J Centre Mall, Mandaue City. About 300 social media users attended the summit, which was organized by iNewMedia Online in cooperation with the Cebu Bloggers Society.
Topics that day included community social media influencers at work (the stories behind the Iloilo Bloggers Society, the Iligan Bloggers Society and the CDO Bloggers), how a mother raised one million pesos in 3 months with the help of Facebook, how to use social media for one’s business and what a social media user’s rights and responsibilities are.
My topic was about the impact of social media influencers in national and local politics. Unbeknownst to many, I’ve been involved in the political world for more than a decade now. I do behind-the-scenes stuff – publicity, campaign strategy, media relations, image building etc.
In my talk, I discussed how social media has changed not only the political and media landscapes but even the politicians themselves as well. I said that because of social media, politicians have now learned how to:
- be more engaging
- be more open to criticism
- listen more and listen well
- be more careful with their volunteers and campaign expenditures
- be more “behaved” in public (anything and everything can now be placed on YouTube!)
- be more careful with how they speak, how they act, how they look
- be more “ma-PR”/ma-appeal
and many more.
Here’s a copy of my Prezi presentation that day. Feel free to give it a look
It truly was a great honor to be a part of the 2013 Social Media Influencers Summit. Met a lot of my longtime online friends in the flesh (finally!) and also met new friends! That was pretty awesome
Thank you so much to all the organizers (special shoutout to Ruben! Daghang salamat ), sponsors, fellow speakers and to all of you who attended the event! Till the next social media summit!
* photo credit: Mike Laagan
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