We won't accept any entries, and any changes to your entries anymore.

But there are contest that will still be running up to December, the

OFW PHOTO CONTEST

and the

Historical NOKIA OVI Tweets.

Join and have fun!

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Uniting OFW Bloggers through 2^nd International Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards

QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES, 29 October 2009 – Over 37 OFW Bloggers from 21 countries are vying for the most coveted 2009 Best Expats/OFW Blog Awards. The Pinoy Expats/Overseas Filipino Workers Blog AWARD or PEBA, together with Nokia Philippines, is a search contest aimed to recognize and honor the exemplary work of blogging Pinoy Expats/OFW. The event entitled, “2^nd Annual International PEBA Awards Night” on the 26^th of December 2009, 6:00PM at the Ang Bahay ng Alumni Convention Hall, University of the Philippines, Quezon City with this year’s theme, “Filipinos Abroad, Hope of the Nation, Gift to the World”.

The primary advocacy of the organization is to present the blogs of our modern-day heroes and bring their creative talents to light, helping other Filipinos to understand and appreciate their plight, sufferings, thoughts, ideologies and stories that made the “Filipino worth dying for”. PEBA advocates the welfare of migrant workers through blogging, strengthening the freedom of speech and the right to information. OFWs are uniting to educate and inform the Filipino people while protecting their rights and safeguarding democracy of our nation.

This event would coincide with the International Pinoy Expats/OFW Photo Exhibits which is intended to be toured all over the Philippines to foster further awareness of the heroism of our OFWs. The awards night might be attended by last year’s winner Jim Paredes (based in Australia) and several significant 2010 political players would be invited to grace the event to discuss their agenda in addressing the plight of Filipino migrant workers.

The complete list of nominees can be found in www.pinoyexpatsblogawards.com including the details on how to vote for this year’s best OFW blog awards.

Contact Information:

Felix Jigs G. Segre

Program Director, Public Relations and Media Affairs

Mobile: +63915.393.4770

Landline: +632.219.1018

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E-mail:

Visit www.pinoyexpatsblogawards.com for more media resources.

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©2009 Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards

PEBA received an email from

Niini Kokkonen of Finland, the creator of the Historical OVI Tweets at OVI Blog.

She said " just wanted to say thank you so much for picking up our Tweets on your blog!! Glad you've enjoyed them! We've actually already received quite a few submissions via our Blog (some of them have directed me to the PEBA site, actually :), and we just love love LOVE all of them!! It just warms my heart that so many people have been inspired by the Historical Ovi Tweets!"

Remember that we asked you guys to come up with your own Historical OVI Tweets?

So we are having coordination at OVI Blog for a "fan art" post of the selected OVI Tweets. For a primer, here are some of the contribution so far.

Reymos of My World is Getting Smaller Everyday

AZEL of Panunumbalik ng Ulirat

RIO of Bizjoker of the Philippines

The Pope of Palipasan

RJ of Chook-minder's Quill

DETH of Minddeth

NEBZ of Isla de Nebz

Thank you guys, and hope more will create their Historical OVI Tweets.

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REMINDER

We would like to remind you that nomination will close 7pm of October 31st, 2009. After that, we will copy all your entries, and make it ready for judging. Any alteration or changes and editing done after October 31st will not be valid. So if you plan to do some editing or changes in your entries, you can do so, before the deadline.

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Entrants

Entries

Photographs must be original images taken by the entrant and may not have been previously published.

Content

The photos shall be color or b/w photographs that represent or typify heroism, love, labor and courage of OFWs abroad (using the host country as part of their subject/s).

Digital image submissions

Image quality must be at least 8" x 10" at 300 DPI or a photo taken with a minimum of 3.2 megapixel camera at the largest image setting submitted through email using JPEG format.

Images that do not meet these criteria will not be considered. Photographs should be submitted without any borders or frames.

Each photo entry should have a filename of the photographer/owner, plus information, location, profession/work and small interpretation comes along in the email.

Example: Fred_santos1.jpg

Location: California, USA

Profession/Job: Computer Engineer

Interpretations/Short explanation: Filipinos love beaches, California has great beaches.

Deadline of submission will be 01 December 2009. Please note that your entries will be printed/blow up for exhibit during the awarding ceremony. Join now!

©2009 Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards

PEBA good friend and mentor, Janette Toral of Digital Filipino is a sponsor of PEBA 2009. Janette will be giving free books during the event at the UP Bahay ng Alumni on the 26th of December, a post Christmas celebration of the OFW's and Filipinos abroad and the 2nd awarding night of the Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards.

We encouraged all to join Janette's Digital Web Awards 2009, deadline for nomination ends October 19.

"The 3rd DigitalFilipino.com Web Awards aims to advocate the use of Internet and e-Commerce for business development, through the identification, promotion, and highlighting of best e-Commerce practices from various websites in the Philippines.

Websites in over forty categories will be reviewed and judged for their ability to create a noticeable presence on the Internet – their ability to be seen and heard among all the noise and clutter of the Net. Commercial websites will also be reviewed for their ability to conduct e-Commerce in simple yet professional manner.

All entries are nominated by the public, as well as from industry, and will be judged openly by members of theDigitalFilipino.com Club.

It is hoped that through the promotion of outstanding websites and peer review process while judging that other businesses as well as the public get a better understanding of the benefits of the Internet as well as the various ways in which e-Commerce can play a vital part in business development."

Start nominating now!

©2009 Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards

Nominee No. 35

Rye R.

Travel Assistance Coordinator

AIG Global, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Blog Name: Flamindevil

That makes the number of nominees to 35! 35 Nominees? Can you believe that?

That brings the country number to 20! Yes, 20 countries,

But wait, the sudden influx of nominees is overwhelming, and I heard there are more coming.

Sponsor inquiries are rising too, as well as making a deal with some.

The latest among them is the NeTVision.

They are willing to stream the awarding live via their online TV, how about that? You can view it live as well as the thousands of their subscribers. Whoa!

We are working out that perhaps they can give the Top 10 winners with free one-year subscription. hehe. Galing noh. Sana maapproved.

Well, kitakits sa finals?

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THANK YOU!

We have a reason to celebrate today!

I admire Susan "Toots" Ople, the youngest daughter of Blas Ople, also a blogger, and the president of the Ople Policy Center. She graduated in UST and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where she received a Vernon Award for Excellence in Communication.

We have had several emails already through the effort of Pete, the Area Coordinator of PEBA in Metro Manila, after she decided to support this OFW event and lending Carlo, her Nephew to act as PEBA project Coordinator.

Why we are so happy about this partnership?

Toots Ople is an OFW friend, OFW defender in the truest sense.

She assisted the repatriation of 6 distressed OFW's in Syria, and assisted repatriated OFW.

She lead the filing of charges to the agency of the 137 drivers stranded in Dubai.

She fights for OFW's welfare, and support OFW causes.

Thank you. Thank you very much!

read more about the Blas Ople Policy and Training Institute here.

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We are overwhelmed, but we are grateful for the positive things that has been going at PEBA.

The one and only place where blogging advocates of our nation gathered to be honored, to be proclaimed as the best and inspiring Pinoy Expats and OFW bloggers.

We thought we were stuck to 32 nominees, but in the last 3 days, we have added two more OFW bloggers, a male hospital administrative staff in Dammam, and a hotel attendant in Canada. Galing! Wag niyo ng paabutin sa 50 ha, maawa kayo, haha! We don't know we still have 20 days to go before the end of the submission of entries.

©2009 Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards

A very beautiful flash courtesy of Chico of Dating Tambay sa Dubai,

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Great and exciting things are happening. In the coming days, more videos will be released, plus we will announce some of our sponsors so far. We thank you for all your support.

We will also announce here the criteria for the special awards and citations.

We thank all the Filipinos anywhere in the world for the oneness we felt in alleviating, and somehow caring for those affected by the typhoon back home. In one way or another, in our simple ways, and in our prayers, we are doing our very best to serve others, and help those in need.

It is therefore fitting to say that today and hope everyday,

OFWs are the modern-day heroes for their families and saviors of their nation,

but back home, in the place where we all come from, heroes are everywhere as well.

There are many heroes among us, donating things, packing foods, rebuilding homes, touching and saving lives, losing even their very own.

But we don't need to lose our life to be a hero. A small act of kindness, or even a little prayer will do, makes us feel good, makes us prouder that we have done good today, not for the world to notice, but for the glory of Him we all look up to.

©2009 Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards