Bloggers tapped for Palarong Pambansa
AIMING to make this year’s Palarong Pambansa the “most digital Palaro” in the national sporting event’s history, the Pangasinan government has tapped bloggers around the province to help in the coverage of the games in May.
Fifty bloggers, chosen from among some 300 applicants, underwent training this weekend to prepare them for covering and writing about the Palaro as well as the annual Pista’y Dayat celebration, also in May.
“Bloggers will serve as force multipliers for the Palarong Pambansa 2012 coverage. They will write articles and capture the event and share them on their blogs for a borderless online audience,” said Vanj Padilla, the provincial government’s consultant on Online Information Management who suggested the idea.
Padilla said the 50 chosen were those who proved to be “natural storytellers” and internet-savvy during the screening.
“If you can tell stories offline, you will be able to tell them online too,” Padilla said.
The bloggers will be required to write stories and post these in his/her blog. The bloggers are also expected to promote their respective blogs to catch readers as well as make their sites rank high in various search engines.
A blog – a contraption of web log – is a personal journal published on the World Wide Web.
Blogs have become a popular tool for information sharing, including citizen journalism.
The bloggers will receive their compensation in cash and goods from the Palarong Pambansa sponsors.–Beatrice Marie Basi
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