Our 2-day outing started at 5am last Saturday. Everyone was excited about it that some of us stayed awake since Friday night . Here are some pics from our anilao trip:

Our favorite is Jane and Jonathan’s version of Titanic:

mang jack and aling rosa on a ship wreck, haha

Too bad, Annie, Eric, Jebb and Nancy missed this event! Hopefully, our next event (team building) would include flying an Ultralight.

Last night, I updated my pesentation about the New Trends in Search Optimization for the Social Networking and eBusiness Conference. It is now uploaded here for your viewing. The copy on the CD given actually has lesser slides than this one.

Also, you may now download the free Do-It-Yourself SEO ebook here.

ConvoTrack lets you load comments from Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, Reddit, HackerNews and any blog that cites your website. To start tracking comments:

1. Drag this link to your browser toolbar. (for IE,  right-click on ConvoTrack and choose “Add to Favorites” » “Create in: Links”)
2. Go to your website.
3. Click on the bookmark.

Below is a preview on how it works:

You can also check out this link.

The video below shows the interactive flash animation we developed for Pagcor in cooperation with Digiscript Philippines. Digiscript provided us with the videos and 3D renderings that were used for the presentation. We’re still waiting for the official photos from PAGCOR but some screenshots of the presentation are posted below.

Intro Page

Branch Selection

3D Plan c/o Digiscript Philippines

Branch Detail Page with Video

Together with our blog’s design update, we have installed the following plug-ins to make this blog more SE-friendly:

All-In-One SEO Pack - lets you customize the meta tags for each post including the homepage.

Google XML Sitemap - automatically generates sitemap.xml which is submitted to Google.

WordPress Prelated Posts - automatically generates related posts based on Wordpress tags.

YARPP - Yet another related post plug-in is the easiest to install and the most customizable.

SEO No Duplicate - helps you easily tell the search engine bots the preferred version of a page by specifying the canonical properly within your head tag.

SEO Tag Cloud Widget - SEO Tag Cloud Widget displays the tag cloud in a SEO-friendly way, using html markup.

There is an upcoming e-business and social networking conference where our company’s president will be speaking at. The details of the conference can be found here.

With this, we decided to change the look of our blog, to prepare and work on our company’s image. We’re still fixing some minor things - like the logo on top that doesn’t really work with the colors of this blog :). Some other things we did together with the design upgrade are:

• Upgrade to the latest wordpress
• Installed some SEO plug-ins (thanks to our SEO Unit Head, Annie, for notifying us that our blog didn’t have an XML sitemap)
• Installed Hello Dolly plug-in even though it doesn’t make sense. While typing this post, hello dolly is displaying “Golly. gee fellas”
• Updated the footer links with keywords that links to our landing pages

We hope that you’re enjoying the upgrade for our blog’s design. More great things to come

Update 4/28/2009:

Conference was successful, just found an AVP of it uploaded:

Today, April 1, 2009, Optimind is officialy 7 years old! You can see the site we used when we started in April 1, 2002 here.

Some pics from our organization development workshop which was held last March 27 at Podium in Ortigas can be found here.

When I saw the TV ad for this campaign a few months ago, how I wish we were involved in the development of their online campaign. Until we were contacted by Proximity Philippines to help them with the flash development of the new site for this campaign last February. Now its live

Thanks Proximity for trusting us.

Involvement: Flash Animation, Actionscripting, Integration with XML driven properties database