E-Commerce & Blogging for to-Retire UP Employees

Last May 27 to 29, I was at the APEC Digital Opportunity Center, National Computer Center, UP Diliman Quezon City and conducted a workshop about e-store creation, online payment, blogging 101, and Internet / blog marketing (interested parties can attend our August 10 to 12 session).

This was made possible by the UP Center for Women's Studies whom I've been actively supporting in their IT literacy efforts through DigitalFilipino since 2007.

My session was part of the "Entrepreneurship and ICT for to Retire UP Employees” seminar workshop that happened last May 25 to 29 where a lot of them are women. Participants are about to retire within five or ten years from now. The objective is to develop and enhance the entrepreneurial and ICT skills and knowledge of the participants.

I felt fortunate to be part of advocacies such as this that aims to spread the knowledge about e-commerce to women locally and internationally. In the past few years, also got several club members involved in the process.

Thanks to social networking, a lot of us are able to keep in touch up to this time.

May 19 to 23: Women Empowerment in the Age of ICT

I just partnered with the University Center for Women's Studies of UP (UCWS-UP) for the conduct of their training workshop on "Women Empowerment in the Age of ICT".

This is part of the UCWS-UP ICT project called "Women and Gender Advocacy, Training, Education, and research in the Age of ICT (WgATER-ICT). This is an action plan output of a trainer's training on ICT in 207 with APEC Digital Opportunity Center as lead sponsor.

As the coordination for the said training was quite tight, I've decided to tap into the existing women members in the DigitalFilipino.com Club to contribute their time and effort for this training. The program outline where the club members participated are as follows:

May 19 Monday

ICT for Business
Resource person, Gwen Nava

• Introduction to E-Commerce
• Internet Safety
• Introduction to E-Shopping and E-Transactions
• Hands-on
• Trial of e-commerce / e-government websites
• Comparison of e-commerce sites
• Case study: AbsoluteTraders.com

May 21

ICT for Data Management, Research, and Communication
Resource person: Aileen Apolo

• Introduction to search engines
• Introduction to keywords
• Tips on finding information you need onlnie
• How to promote your business through the Internet (e-mail and blog marketing)
• Search engine marketing
• Introduction to information research tracking (RSS and alerts)

May 22

ICT for Data Management, Research, and Communication
Resource person: Joan Pinon

• Information research result communication (online collaboration tools, wiki, blogs, podcast, vlogs)
• Using online collaboration tools and blogs (setting up and posting content)
• Hands-on workshop:
• Creating your own blog
• Using blogs for advocacy
• Case study: FilipinaImages.com
• Guest resource: Dine Racoma

May 23

ICT for Data Management, Research and E-Commerce
Resource persons:

• Katrina Inocencio, Kaban
• Reggie Bundang, RegaloService

Internet Payment

• Accepting online payment
• Case study: Kaban

E-Commerce for Women Entrepreneurs

• E-Commerce project planning
  
• Case Study: RegaloService
• Lessons learned
• Project Planning Workshop

Many thanks for this opportunity and we hope that more women will be empowered through ICT and e-commerce!