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Manila Bulletin Blog-o-rama: Barrio Siete on Collective Blogging

Barely a year old, Barrio Siete has rocked the Pinoy blogosphere with it’s candid views and timely take on current events, a factor that contributed to its high traffic in such a very short period of time. This interview by Manila Bulletin offers insight in managing a collective blog, based on the experience of Barrio Siete.

1. How to manage a collective blog: A Manila Bulletin Interview

Q: B7’s traffic at the start has been considered phenomenal for a new blog. What do u think are the factors that made u achieve this?

A: B7 is a great team of established bloggers forming a community with a concept that easily connected and endeared to readers. Our readers feel the teamwork and the respect amongst us. We do not cannibalize each other simply because we disagree with the author’s view. Our style of writing debunked conventional norms in blogging that only blogs written in English are the only ones that succeeds and earns respect. Our blog is informative and fun to read, tackling real-life and socially relevant issues in a light-hearted, humorous and satirical way.

Bayanihan Fund Drive: Donate to Ondoy Flood Victims

With the epic flooding that brought devastation to properties and lives of our fellow Filipinos by typhoon Ondoy, Barrio Siete Dot Com responded with Bayanihan Fund Drive: Donate to Ondoy Flood Victims

1. Netizens help victims via social network sites , Philippine Daily Inquirer

On the Barrio Siete website, a blogger called on fellow “bloggers, readers and lurkers” to send in donations through the Philippine National Red Cross. As of Sunday, the site was able to raise $170 from Philadelphia, Texas and Ohio in the United States. “It breaks our heart seeing all these images and watching the videos coming from Manila—the wrath and devastation not only to properties but also to the lives of our fellow Filipinos,” the blogger wrote.

2. Barriosiete.com help acquire funds for the victims of typhoon Ketsana in the Philippines, Arabian Business

Bariosiete.com, one of the fastest growing blog in the Philippines and is authored by several Filipino bloggers from different parts of the country is reaching out for the victims of Typhoon Ketsana. Last September 27, the website started a fund raising campaign and has now collected Php 63,688. The website is still calling for more donations as the number of victims from the calamity continue to grow.

Touch a blogger: Tie a yellow ribbon for Cory Aquino! Campaign

We love Cory Aquino. When we found out that she has cancer, we can only offer prayers. And yellow ribbon. We wanted everybody to do the same thing. So we launched: Touch a blogger: Tie a yellow ribbon for Cory Aquino!

1. ‘Yellow-ribbon fever’ for Cory spreads to the Web, GMA News TV

Last Thursday July 23, Filipino-American blogger La Kapitana who maintains Barrio Siete (“Keep social climbing alive!”) began the online campaign with an appeal: “My fellow bloggers, I invite you to Touch a blogger: Tie a yellow ribbon for Cory Aquino!” Within days, the “yellow-ribbon fever” had spread all over the Web with various blogs and social networking sites expressing their love for the country’s democracy icon, and adorning their pages with yellow ribbon images. Others handed out free templates of the iconic bows.

2. Tweets and twibbons for Cory, ABS-CBN News

As a gesture of support for the ailing president, supporters from the online community have been placing yellow ribbons in their blog sites and social networking accounts since June 24, the day when Mrs. Aquino’s condition became unstable. The call for posting yellow ribbons online started with Reyna Elena of Barrio Siete (http://barriosiete.com/touch-a-blogger-tie-a-yellow-ribbon-for-cory-aquino/) on July 23, heeding the call of Aquino supporters to tie a yellow ribbon as a way of expressing support for the country’s first female president. As of posting, Reyna Elena has linked 57 blog sites with yellow ribbons.

3. On the Web, thousands more grieve for Cory, Philippine Daily Inquirer

One of the more popular images that came out since Mrs. Aquino’s medical condition became known was the virtual yellow ribbon, which started on July 23 by the blog forum Barrio Siete (http://barriosiete.com/touch-a-blogger-tie-a-yellow-ribbon-for-cory-aquino/). The call gathered steam in the following weeks as her condition worsened. Many users pasted the iconic yellow ribbon on their blogs and even on their pictures.

4. And during Cory’s funeral, this ANC newscaster was talking about Barrio Siete in his newscast. He was talking one blog entry by Mahalia, one of our Barrio Siete Writers.

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