Still Life Happens: blogging

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Thank You Dance Manila

In October, one of the website/blog I have been regularly contributing to has finally announced its end. www.DanceManila.com bids adieu to the community and its readers. Though as they said to their avid followers, it was never about just a website / blog, but about the community that came together and connected through Dance Manila. With the booming dance community in all parts of the country, their purpose has been achieved.

Their post on their FB page:

Long time everyone! As the saying goes "All good thing (must) come to an end." Dance Manila is officially shutting down....
Posted by Dance Manila on Monday, 26 October 2015

Thank you for the opportunity. Writing for Dance Manila helped me reconnect with one of my passion. Helped me come to terms with my doubts and made me meet new friends. Dance has been and will always be a key part in my being.

To all the local dance community, dance crews and friends thanks for entrusting me with the power of giving you a voice. Hope you'd all still have me at your events though, as I'm sorely missing the scene and everyone so much.

This won't mean the end for my writing for the dance community, nope. Though my readership was never as big and as specific as Dance Manila, I will continue to write about dance and the community here in my humble mumble jumble blog. We just found a new home.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Cebu Blog Camp 2010

When I first started blogging it was only because I was a regular journal-keeper. I had my first diary at the age of 7. And my dad said he found an unnamed diary among our kiddie stuffs with the word "DAIRY" clearly scrawled on the front - I refuse to say that was mine. I wasn't the only one who kept a diary as a kid I believe.

Keeping journal became an art piece for me as this progressed on to scrapbooking. With photos and trinkets to accompany each entry. So it came naturally I guess when blogging became the new form of journal keepsake.

I've always had an inclination to writing reports and articles and had at one point thought about doing it professionally. But I never really walked the path yet. I kept to writing my personal dailies on my blogs. Incidentally I along with my friend were into maintaining her website and online portfolio. I took it upon myself to write content for her site. Soon enough the people she worked for thought I was in media publishing or a professional blogger. I said I wasn't but was interested and they in turn said I should give it a try. So as fates would have it, apart from my personal blogs (where I rave and rant or post random things sporadically), other blogs I've provided content for is a model turned beauty queen's portfolio site and an environmental group's blog.

So here I am thinking that I should start learning the ropes to blogging properly and gain more insights to the blogsphere here in Cebu. Thus my signing up for the Cebu Blog Camp 2010 happening this weekend on May 22, 2010 starting 8:00AM at the CAP auditorium, Jones Ave, Cebu City. Here's to hoping to meet fellow bloggers and more importantly broaden my horizon on an erstwhile hobby that, at it's beginnings has already taken me places!

The event is brought to you by: Thanks for this opportunity ^_^