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Regnard Raquedan of Standard Web Standards is organizing a charity event for one of his classes in the Asian Institute of Management (AIM).

The event is called “Corporate Communications 2.0: Corporate Blogging” and it is a seminar/workshop about corporate blogging. The seminar will be held in March 7, 2008 at the AIM Campus in Makati City.

Corporate Communications 2.0 is intended primarily for:

1. Business executives who recognize the promise of blogs for viral marketing, crisis communications and corporate culture development
2. Managers who want to tap blogging as a collaboration platform
3. Professionals who are interested to learn how blogging can be an effective means of communication in the corporate setting

The seminar will be on March 7, 2008 at the SGV Caseroom at the Asian Institute of Management, Makati City. The seminar fee is PhP 500.00. (All proceeds of the event will go to the GILAS Project of the Ayala Foundation.)

Interested folks may pre-register online at http://corpcomm2.eventbrite.com or email Regnard at for more information.

Agenda:

1. Corporate Blogging: What, Who, When, Why and How - Jayvee Fernandez of b5 Media
2. Corporate Blogging in Practice - Andrian Lee of AsiaPay
3. Case Discussion/Workshop - I’ll be facilitating the discussion.

HackaCon 2008: International IT Security Convention

August 8, 9 & 10, 2008

SM Megatrade Hall, Mandaluyong City, Philippines
The topics to be covered are:

• Certified Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures (CEH)
• Linux Security
• Disaster Recovery (DR)
• Licensed Penetration Tester (LPT)
• Security+
• Microsoft Security
• Hardening Against TCP/IP Attacks
• Wireless Hacking and Security
• Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI)

The fee is only P500 per topic inclusive of materials and certificate.  This is a first-come first-served basis. The organizers can only accommodate 200 pax per topic.

Check their website for more info - http://www.hackacon.com