Speaker Spotlight: Janette Toral

The SOCCSKSARGEN Bloggers firmly believes that the primary purpose of blogging should be to positively influence others. With the unfathomable reach that the World Wide Web has, the blog can then become a powerful force of change that can positively affect scores of lives.

The perfect speaker to talk on ‘New Media and its Role in Businesses’ on the BlogFest SOCCSKSARGEN 2010 is the founder of The Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs Awards, of which two of the SOCCSKSARGEN Bloggers have been to the Top 10, is Ms. Janette Toral.

JANETTE TORAL is the author of Blogging from Home, DigitalFilipino.com E-Commerce Workshop E-Book, co-author/editor of the Philippine Internet Review: 10 Years of Internet History (1994 – 2004), and DigitalFilipino: An E-Commerce Guide for the eFilipino.

She has published 14 research reports tackling Internet, e-commerce, online banking, IT manpower, outsourcing, mobile phone usage, IT adoption developments in the country.

She renders consulting work in the area of Internet marketing by designing and managing advertisement placements in blogs, social networks, social media, websites, and 3rd party advertising placement engines.

She owns two professional online communities, where knowledge sharing and business matching are usually conducted, the DigitalFilipino.com Club and Philippine Software Process Improvement Network.

She regularly conducts training on e-learning, e-mail marketing, Internet advertising, blogging, online payment, website marketing, e-commerce project planning, software process improvement, requirements management, and software project management. Janette Toral is a certified SCRUM Master.

She co-produced and hosted the DigitalFilipino.com Podcast back in 2006. It was considered the first podcast in the Philippines that had commercial sponsors supporting it.

She rendered consulting work from May 2005 to June 2007, functioning as executive director, to the Congressional Oversight Committee for the E-Commerce that resulted to the release of Data Privacy Guidelines (DTI DAO 8), SME-FIT (S.B. Corp.), Consumer Protection on Electronic Banking (BSP Circular 542), Procurement Eligibility Amendment (GPBB 07-2006), E-Payment and Collection System in Government (DTI-DOF Joint DAO #2), NTC Data Log Retention Circular, and NTC Consumer Protection Guidelines. Janette is a recipient of the DTI/CITEM E-Services Philippines E-Champion Award 2008 for Policy Development following Senators Magsaysay and Roxas.

She is a columnist to Sun.Star Cebu since 2003.

She is the ambassador of the Philippine School Cyberfair Competition.

She is the founder of the Philippine Internet Commerce Society, where she served as president for 5 years (1997-2002), and lobbied for the passage of the Y2K Law and E-Commerce Law (Republic Act 8792).

The SOCCSKSARGEN Bloggers is proud to present a true master in the World Wide Web and the craft of blogging, Ms. Janette Toral.

Alexis is a Business Administration graduate from the Mindanao State University in General Santos City and blogs at http://alexischua.com. He was a former chief editor of his university's publication and is now spending time to discover the perfect job to jumpstart his career. Alexis has 39 post(s) on SOXBloggers.com.