Womenwill Successfully Launched in Cagayan de Oro

GBGCDO in cooperation with Modern Nanays of Mindanao launched Womenwill last Saturday at Limketkai Center in Cagayan de Oro City.  

Successfully attended by more than 80 women by mothers, professionals, business owners and entrepreneurs,  Womenwill spent 5 hours of fast talk discussing womenhood, issues on gender gap and business and productivity tools for entrepreneurs.  

Celebrating Women with Womenwill and Modern Nanays of Mindanao

This upcoming Saturday, March 24, GBG CDO along with the Modern Nanays of Mindanao will launch Womenwill and celebrate International Women's Day at Limketkai Center. 

GBG CDO decided to seek the help of 2017's TAYO (Ten Accomplished Youth Organization) Finalist Modern Nanays of Mindanao, spearheaded by Nadine Casino.  The Modern Nanays is a group of young mothers who share experiences in modern parenting. The group advocates breastfeeding, babywearing and cloth-diapering and among their many projects is Nanay Meet-Ups, a Mother to-Mother support to help cope with raising a child based from experiences coupled with scientific based resources and evidence based practice relayed in laymen terms. The group was able to connect at least 2,000 mothers to their growing network.

Google started the Womenwill initiative to create economic opportunity for women by connecting them to the online world and tools to make the most of it. From helping women in rural villages get online and bringing together women entrepreneurs, to advocating for more inclusive workplaces and partnering with groups like UN Women to drive conversations around gender equality,  develop and support programs to help women build skills, get inspired, and connect with each other.

So on March 24, Limketkai Center will be the venue for the first Womenwill get together along with the Modern Nanays of Mindanao.  Along with women speakers from different industries and backgrounds, Womenwill aims to encourage more women to leverage themselves by learning new skills through technologies. 

Registration for the event will end midnight of March 22. 

Sponsoring our first Womenwill event are Allele White, Vjandep Pastel of Camiguin and Gymboree Play and Music at Limketkai Center. 

GBG Start 2018 Commenced

Yes, GBG CDO is back after a year on hiatus with GBG Start 2018.  GBG Start is an event format to allow entrepreneurs to learn how to start building a successful business online. It is an event to encourage entrepreneurs to familiarize with different business methodologies and utilize Google tools to create a platform for online business success.

The focus of the workshop was the introduction to Google My Business.  Learning its different features and managing their business listing to leverage and grow their businesses was the core of GBG Start Workshop.  GBG Start was held at GC Suites Function Hall last March 17 and was attended by 20 business owners and entrepreneurs.

Search for GBG Success Stories is on!

Are you using Google to do extraordinary things? Has technology enabled you to start new ventures, grow your business or affect the lives of those around you in a positive way? Would you like your story shared around the world? We would love to hear from you.

Share your story for a chance to visit Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California for mentorship experience customized and relevant to your business.

Here are the guidelines:

Who can join?
GBG / GDG managers and community members
Non-community members ( Public )

Judging Criteria
Inspirational: personal or professional obstacles that were overcome to achieve success (60%)
Impactful: on industry, society, community or environment (20%)

Innovative: unique ways of using the internet to deliver its product, service and process and how Google products were used (20%)

Categories
SMB - Small to medium sized businesses including NGOs.
Technology - Technology startups and ventures.
Social Impact - Social enterprises.

Timeline

• 13 June 2016 - Submission starts
• 27 June 2016 - Submission closes
• 27 June 2016 - Start judging submissions
• 7 July 2016 - 24 Semi-finalists selected and contacted by email and/or phone and YouTube 1 minute pitch submission starts
• 14 July 2016 - YouTube 1 minute pitch submission closes for internal selection
• 21 July 2016 - 9 Global finalists selected and contacted by email and/or phone and video production starts
• 14 November 2016 - Videos for 9 Global Finalists produced and public voting for people’s choice awards starts.
• 21 November 2016 - Winners announced

Prizes
Winners will be sent (flights and hotel) to MTV for a customized business mentoring visit and a chance to attend a business conference.

Judges
We have a group of 15-20 judges representing different teams in Google - SMB Marking Global, Developer Product Group (DPG), Policy, PR, Communications, Developer Relations (DevRel).

Leave a comment here, or a message to either @Jon, @Carlo, or @Alma if you want to nominate your business or someone else's. Feel free to reach out if you have questions!

MapUp Season Is Back

GBG Cagayan de Oro kicks off its 2016 by bringing back the MapUp season.

GDay Cagayan de Oro 2014

There is no doubt that Cagayan de Oro is now rapidly growing and evolving as a business hub. People are now into startups, businesses and new technologies as the city grows and becomes more competitive.

That is why there is no better way to celebrate business success and create more opportunities for the city than having a GDay celebration. We just had our second GDay and it definitely was bigger and better than last year!

#WalkTheTalk: GBG CDO GeoWalk Part 2

Last October 25, 2014, we had our final mapping event for this season.

Android Invasion on Bombo Radyo Cagayan de Oro

Josan Dometita, Community Manager of GDG CDO and our very own Christian Drey Lumen, Mapping Expert of GBG CDO were invited by Bombo Radyo Cagayan de Oro last September 14, 2014. 

#WalkTheTalk: GBG CDO MapUp Part 1

Last October 11, 2014, a number of enthusiastic mappers attended "Walk The Talk," a GeoWalk and MapUp event of GBG Cagayan de Oro.

The Map Maker Training Was A Success!

Our recently concluded Map Maker Training was a success!

We spent the whole afternoon of September 27, 2014 at the Lab D of Xavier University's Faber Hall to discuss how we could use Google Maps to contribute to the development of our very own Cagayan de Oro City.

Welcome Alma and Drey, Our New Community Co-Managers!

After more than a year of making an impact to communities and businesses here in Cagayan de Oro, there is no stopping GBG CDO from growing and continuing to live its mission of sharing Google technologies to our local community.

As we gear up for what is ahead of us, we are very excited to announce that we are officially welcoming Alma and Drey as our new community co-managers!

Alma Christina Ebuna Hnanguie
Community Co-manager
Events
Email, Twitter, Google+

- Freelance Project Manager
- SEO Developer
- Blogger

Christian Drey Lumen
Community Co-manager
Mapping
Email, Twitter, Google+

- Economist
- Mapping expert
- One of the top mappers in the Philippines
- 25,000+ edits on Google Map Maker
- Blogger

Happy Anniversary GBG CDO!

GBG Cagayan de Oro just turned one!

It has been an amazing year for us. To celebrate this, we had a small gathering last June 7 at Xavier University's Little Theater.

Photos from the Geowalk and MapUp

Last February 22, GBG Cagayan de Oro organized it's very own GeoWalk & MapUp.

It was a very hot afternoon but everyone cooperated and had so much fun. We were able to map a significant number of establishments within Divisoria, the center of Cagayan de Oro City.

GBG CDO GeoWalk & MapUp

We are kicking off 2014 by organizing our very own mapping event!

Join us as we map the heart of Cagayan de Oro City this February 22, 2014. It is going to be another exciting event!

First meetup for 2014!

2013 was a really great year for GBG Cagayan de Oro!

In just our first year as a community, we did a lot of exciting things and made a positive impact on the lives of many business persons in the city, as well as in the neighboring towns, municipalities, and cities. Then, we wrapped up with a very successful gDayX celebration. It was really an awesome year!

The First Ever gDayX Cagayan de Oro

GBG Cagayan de Oro held its first ever gDayX in the city last November 16, 2013 at the N Hotel. It was the biggest Google event for Northern Mindanao so far. It was also our biggest event yet.

Judging by the feedback from our delegates around Northern Mindanao, the event was without a doubt a success. Everyone had so much fun and the atmosphere was filled with so much new stuff to learn.

#gDayXCDO Feedback

Posts about #gDayXCDO were populating social networking sites last Nov. 16, 2013. It was an amazing event and delegates were having so much fun. Check out what they had to say:

Successful #GDayxCDO today. Learned a lot about Google + & Google Maps. Plus lots of freebies & photobooth. Great job @gbgcdo! #GDayXCDO
— Densho Bug-os (@headturnerdj) November 16, 2013

Just got home from #gDayXCDO. What a day! I enjoyed it and learned a lot. Thank you #gbgCDO. Sa uulitin! :3
— scARCYty (@scARCYty) November 16, 2013

GDayX Cagayan de Oro Blogging Challenge

gDayX Cagayan de Oro was a huge success!

Everyone had so much fun learning a lot of new stuff and winning exciting prizes from our amazing sponsors. We will be blogging about the event very soon so watch out for it.

For the meantime, we would like to remind you of one more exciting thing we announced during the event.



Our media partner, GMA Northern Mindanao left out a really exciting blogging challenge.

gDayX Cagayan de Oro Giveaways and Sponsors

gDayX Cagayan de Oro is supported primarily by the awesomeness that is Google. But we are also backed up by some amazing partners and sponsors. Having them around sure does make the event a lot more interesting and fun!

Here are some of the exciting prizes you can win during the event:





JMKTech is giving away free web hosting plans to 10 lucky delegates! Got your own domain name? This is your chance to start your own blog or small business website*. This is perfect if you want to take your web presence to the next level!

The Biggest Google Event for Northern Mindanao

The biggest Google event this side of the country is fast approaching!