See the beautiful and very moving PEBA AD produce by Drake of Saudi Arabia.

Compelling, and yes, inspiring!

We invite you too to create yours, we will promise you to feature it during the awarding plus it will be playing continuously in the PEBA TV above.

Hi all,

Greetings from Saudi Arabia! How are you? Fine, thank you! Haha.

There are people in the media, business and NGO's sneaking through our site from time to time. Thank you for visiting. We hope you will support us, and sponsor our event this December. A lot of people and business entities as well as establishments and organizations indicated their desire to sponsor us. Thank you to you. In the next few weeks, we will post the media mileage that you will be getting as well as the benefit of joining us in this one-of-a-kind, historic awarding of the blogging heroes of our time.

You will also be a part of changing the future of two deserving but poor children, sending them to school, symbolic of our two years in PEBA.

A lot of people are asking what's the difference between PEBA and the other awards. Well, first and foremost PEBA is engaging, we are not just giving you awards and that's the end of it. Becoming a PEBA nominee requires an effort, becoming a PEBA winner is also demanding. But you guys and gals, being established people, waving proudly the Philippine flag wherever you are responding wholeheartedly, and without reservation to the challenges.

Thank you all. For me, you are all winners. For me, every PEBA Nominee are heroes in the truest since, not just to your families and relatives, but of your community and our country and the world you are working.

You still have one month to edit your entries and photos and videos. 1st of November, 12MN Philippines time, 7PM KSA, we will not accept entries anymore. We will be copying all your entries in a database ready for judging.

To those planning to join, you still have a month to submit your entry! JOIN NA!

We are calling all nominees to submit the following.

1. Profile Photos (passport size if you have, but anything no problem, we can crop it and resize it later) or if you don't want a solo pic, Photos of you with your family, or parents or siblings. Send it to

2. Video of you or picture with voice narration of your name or blog name or pseudonym, where is your location and where you came from. You can ask somebody to narrate, but to make it more personal, better you do it yourself. We have nothing to hide, right? hehe

Yung mga video na parang prerecorded kung wala ka dun during the awarding at ikaw ang makakatanggap ng award. Hehe.

3. And lastly, submit a name of your representative to join or who will come in the UP Diliman Convention Center that will receive sa stage ng ala-Oscar's Trophy-Plaque award if you land in the Top 10 or you will win a citation.

Download the sponsorship package above and please send it to your connections, and kakilala in the business world or organizations that are supportive of OFW causes like us.

We want the event to be special. It should be big and great. We are honoring the blogging heroes of our time.

©2009 Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards

I hope that you can help inform our kababayans about the disaster Ondoy wrought to our country.

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PEBA Adviser, Noemi L. Dado's family was stranded in the second floor of their house without food and water. Their 3 cars are submerged in water, along with the furnitures estimated to cost 3 million pesos.

PEBA and KABLOGS are joining volunteers and organizations in the relief efforts for those affected by ONDOY especially the urban poor relocatees in Kasiglahan Village Montalban, Rizal. Makulimlim right now in the Philippines and another typhoon is coming, it seems, according to Pete that the typhoon expected for Wednesday is already in the Philippines and with strong winds. It will hamper relief operations. God bless our country. God bless our beloved Philippines.

We need your donations.

Please grab the image above and display in your sidebar as image.

or copy it here

For more info on donations and how you can help especially the relocatees in the Kasiglahan Village without clothes, food or water, 300 families, nearly 3000 Filipinos.

call the following:

Pete at (632) 920-2595 local 107

Beth at (632) 922-0246 / 927 -0794

or email us at

and

©2009 Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards

PEBA Bloggers and Nominees are free to grab this video.

This is just one of the many videos that will be posted via and Justin TV and other PEBA live streaming sites in preparation for the awarding.

This will be edited with the name of the sponsors later.

Criteria? Simple.

1. Content or message is relevant to the theme of PEBA 2009.

"Filipinos Abroad: Hope of the Nation, Gift to the World."

2. Anybody can join, Filipinos at the home front, or Filipinos abroad, blogger or non-blogger, and there is no limit to the number of entries. That means, anyone, including nominees can submit a video ad entry.

3. Any of the following elements should be included: Video, action, photo, music, or anything uploaded at video hosting site.

4. The minimum length of the video is 1 minute and maximum of 5 minutes.

5. Give us the link of the uploaded video at the comment portion below or email us at

Please note that the chosen video will be used for the commercial, ads, awarding, & in all promotional plug-ins.

©2009 Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards

There are still more webinars coming, see and register here, this are all free!

1.) 3rd Digital Filipino Web Awards 2009
2 pm to 3 pm Phil time
To register, visit http://tr.im/dfwebaward09

2.) Briefing on the Philippine Schools Cyberfair 2010 - Believe and Unite!
4 pm to 5 pm Phil time
To register, visit http://tr.im/cyberfairbrief

3.) Make Money from Blogging & Introduction to Blog4Reviews.com
7 pm to 8 pm Phil time
To register, visit http://tr.im/blog4review

There is a team working on the judging matrix, and it will be as transparent as ever. We have come up with a very simple matrix last year.

This year, a 4-man/woman team is working on the matrix, and believe it or not, 3 of them don't know that what they are doing is for the judging. We will deal with utmost confidentiality, and fair and transparent judging.

75 % of the judging will be done by the judges.

15% from the visibility/social metrics

10% from the poll/votes garnered.

We are still looking for sponsors, volunteers and donors. Please help us find sponsors. Thank you!

©2009 Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards

If not, join here!

We are elated with the caliber of people joining the PEBA team as judges and volunteers when we celebrate this December.

The Judges who confirmed so far are:

Ellen Tordesillas - Editor of the Malaya and Abante News and a prominent blogger.

Kimbe Tan, GMA New Producer, GMA News.TV and GMA Network, Inc.

Anthony Ian Cruz or better known in the blogworld as Tonyo Cruz, columnist and a prominent blogger

Gigi Manaloto Refugia, 2008 PEBA No. 2 Winner, and Founder of the Pansitan Portal.

Janet Toral - founder of the Top 10 Influential Emerging Blogs and Digital Filipino

Ed Saldivia aka Blogusvox of the Sandbox, No. 3 in 2008 PEBA and cartoonist

Annalyn Jusay is the columnist behind Blog-o-Rama which is featured in Manila Bulletin.

Aileen Apolo, Google Philippines Country Consultant, and a prominent Manila blogger.

Jehzeel Laurente, of Jehzlau Concepts, is an experienced Web Designer and Developer, Database Administrator, Flash Developer, Electronics Hardware Technician and a Graphic Artist.

Kevin Ray Chua is a 19 year old blogger from Cebu, and the blogger behind NoyMar, Tuloy ang Laban! and receives several citations, awards, and interviews by the media.

Josh thank you, probably Qtube will cover the event, and hoping POGB will support us and Pinoy Radio USA will carry it live on air. Of course there will be many, many sites, including KABLOGS and PEBA blogs that will carry the live streaming and the podcasts.

We are amazed at the great men and women who are willing to support us in this undertaking.

To you all, and to those who will support, thank you from the bottom of PEBA's heart!

Another set of volunteers

Rhon B. aka Pin(k)oy

volunteer to be one of the MC during that night.

Another one joining us is a blogger named Patola

and UE Caloocan student and a family friend of ours named Nikki

They will be ushering and presenting trophies to the winners.

Kitakits tayo, there are still very many out there, and in the coming days we will all feature you here, in gratitude for all your support.

To the Generous Lady and Genius Kid who donated to KABLOGS, shokran katir!

(Thank you very much!)

©2009 Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards

Three is the lucky number. There are three reasons why we will invite you today.

First, it's the birthday of the KABLOGS President, LordCM at Dungeon. KABLOGS is PEBA's Outreach/Charity Arm and also an extensive and the one and only OFW BlogLinks stretching to 300-500 Blogs of Expats, OFW's and OFW Supporters. He is having a very lavish party going on at the Dungeon in Palau, so please join us in this wonderful celebration of a man turning double 3. (Peace CM! :)

Second, we have 30 nominees so far from 17 countries, but we would like to invite for more. We can make it to 40! We hope to have entries from Malaysia, Kuwait, Germany, Canada, USA, and many more. We want more entries from the Middle East and Asia Pacific. We have two months more, and we still have a long way to go. Ask your friends to join. Multiply, Friendster or Myspace blog, we accept them so long that they comply with the requirements.

And third, last but not the least, we would like to invite you to join us in celebration of the modern heroes blogging Filipino Expats and OFW's.

In celebration of the yuletide season as well as the heroes of our time, we will all converge on the 26th of December, 2009, Saturday, 6:00 pm at the Ang Bahay ng Alumni Convention Hall, University of the Philippines, Diliman Quezon City Philippines.

We have only limited seats. We can stretch up to 200, as we sit down together in a special dinner as Expats, OFWs, and local bloggers, serenade by the music that is like our anthem while abroad, entertained by the dances that is Filipino talent, and hearing the voices of the people we look up to.

Let us join together with government leaders, government agencies directly supportive to the OFW causes, our sponsors, our families.

The reservation is free. But we don't know if we will be full as this early, so it's better to reserve your seat now. Upon entrance, you can choose to register for 100Php. that will entitle you of a free Souvenir Program, PEBA Magazine containing info's about PEBA, sponsors, and the past winner entries and current nominees. You will also be entitled of promotional materials and gift items from the Sponsors, as well as the opportunity to win in the raffle like MP3, Mobile Phones, Digital Cameras and Laptops!?

We are blessed to have the people who are helping us to make these things possible. And as we speak, download the Sponsorship Package and send it out to your contacts and friends in the businesses and companies that might want to join us in this historic event of

THE BLOGGING HEROES!

©2009 Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards