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Anything mommy blogger related here. This features blog events coverage. This blog also publish press release and write ups. Tips and tutorials on how to be an effective blogger.

This also include a list of top mommy blog in the Philippines.

In addition, here is the 5 SIMPLE STEPS TO BE A MOMMY BLOGGER:

1. Create a blog name that will represent you as a mommy blog. Sometimes it's good to include the noun mommy or mother or nanay.

2. Create an email the same as your blog name for branding purpose, in other words, for identification. After that, you can proceed to step 3 which is actually one of the most challenging part.

3. Open a blog. It has been debated for so many times which is the best blogging platform to use. For starters, I usually recommend blogspot because it is free. On the other han, if you are ready to shell out money, wordpress org is the best.

4. Design your blog. This sound like an easy task to do, it is actually, however, it can be very time consuming. The number of free templates for a blog is endless. To help you decide, set your blog tone and color. Will it be a dark themed blog? Light? What will be the primary colors? And from there, searching will be easier.

5. Lastly and most importantly, Start writing. The best way to start this is to introduce yourself. Likewise, you can also create a list of why you started a mommy blog. Or you can mention top 10 things that you would want your future readers to know about you.

Bring Hope And Happiness to Children: Give UNICEF cards and gifts

PRESS RELEASE

Bringing hope, health and happiness to children this season can be more heartwarming when you give UNICEF cards and gifts. Aside from classic cards in elegant designs, the collection also features new and contemporary designs for a fresh look at holiday time such as works of artist Koco. You can also make use of modern mini cards in playful Christmas symbols or the convenient adhesive gift labels. Each one captures the spirit of UNICEF and helps you to celebrate holiday togetherness. The UNICEF collection also carries beautiful gift items such as incense and children’s toys. Every purchase you make directly contributes to the safety and well-being of Filipino children.

Christmas Cards – One World pair (Php 400 for 10 cards)

Share warm wishes of unity as children across the world play in harmony. Two designs on recycled paper.

Christmas Cards – Messengers of Joy (Php 480 for 10 cards)

Send a message of harmony and joy with these elegant artwork.

With the cheer of Christmastime comes the awareness that many children are living in poverty, are sick, abused, neglected or under threat. With a purchase of UNICEF gifts, you can become part of a community of people helping to save, improve and protect the lives of some of the Philippines’ most disadvantaged children. Funds go to various education programs that UNICEF Philippines is supporting.Apart from giving children a chance to be the best they can be, UNICEF items exemplify responsible giving. All UNICEF cards and gifts are developed and produced to stringent international standards of quality, safety, social responsibility, and environmental protection.

Ethical sourcing. Ethical sourcing is at the heart of the UNICEF collection. UNICEF suppliers, wherever they are, big or small, adhere to standards on the fundamental rights of their employees—and in particular the complete prohibition of child labor.

Artisan and handcrafted. UNICEF also actively supports artisans in inspiring handcrafted products, engaging only with socially responsible workshops and producers that conform to UNICEF’s principles.

Environmentally responsible. Especially with the recent natural calamities affecting millions of Filipino children, protecting the environment has always been a primary concern for UNICEF, that is why only wood and paper from managed forests and exclude materials that can negatively impact nature are used.

UNICEF relies entirely on voluntary donations for our work for children – we receive no core funding from the UN. Donations come from governments, private corporations and individual donors, including those who purchase our cards and gifts.

Give the gift of UNICEF by calling (0632) 901-0160, 901-0164 fax your order form to (0632) 757-7151 or e-mail us atplmmanila@unicef.org. Corporate bulk orders available. You can also download the Unicef Cards and Gifts 2010 Catalogue atwww.unicef.ph
Every P 1,000 purchase includes free delivery within Metro Manila.
UNICEF Cards and Gifts are also available at retail outlets: all Hobbes and Landes, Kidz Station, Rustan’s Department Store, and selected Fully Booked, National Bookstore, Powerbooks outlets.

Year-round giving. Beyond the holidays, UNICEF also gives more opportunities for giving. Sign up to be a UNICEF Champion for Children today and be part of a community of UNICEF supporters that seeks to help Filipino children all over the country enjoy the right to education, healthcare and nutrition as well as protection from violence, abuse and exploitation through regular monthly donations. For as little as Php 15 a day or Php 500 a month, you can help send five children back to school complete with supplies.
To find out more about UNICEF and Champions for Children, visitwww.unicef.phor call (632) 758-1000. You can also check out UNICEF Philippines in Facebook and Twitter.

ABOUT UNICEF
UNICEF is on the ground in over 150 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence. The world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.

Meralco Appliance Calculator

Will you be surprised if I tell you, I don’t care about our Meralco bill. Before, I tortured myself finding ways to decrease or lessen our electricity cost, but whatever I do, it stays that way. I tried almost everything, from using stove instead of rice cooker to using electric fan instead of the air conditioner. The thing is, I don’t know where the bulk of our bill came from. Is it the ref that runs 24 hours, 7 days a week (oh we even lessen the times our ref was opened) or is it the TV? Maybe it’s the aircon. Who’s the real culprit? Who?

I wish Meralco will come up with a site or an application that will help me control my electric consumption. Something that will tell me how much electricity my electric fan consumes in a given time. Something that will tell me to turn off my TV so that I can lessen its consumption. And something that will tell me, what kind of appliances will consume more and what type will consume less.

Oh wait! Meralco just launched their new application:Meralco Appliance Calculator

If you frequent Meralco’s website, you will notice that even their site had a makeover.

So what does the Meralco Appliance Calculator or MAC do? TheMeralco Appliance Calculatoris designed to become theelectricity bill management toolof Meralco residential costumers to help them:

Better manage their electric consumption and their electric bill.
Make wiser decision in buying home appliances.
Get home energy efficient tips that are customized to their home electricity consumption.

Actually, the Meralco Appliance Calculator (M.A.C) has been around since 2003. But this time, there has been new features added that cater the needs of Meralco’s costumers. You can access M.A.C in Meralco’s website (http://www.meralco.com.ph/).

Lower left is the MAC icon. Just click it to be go to Meralco Appliance Calculator page:

Click the M.A.C online version. You can see that it has a downloadable version. So yes, you can use it while you are offline. You just need to install the program to your computer.

Before you can use the Meralco Appliance Calculator, you need to read the Agreement and agree. As you can see, you can use “My Appliance Calculator” or “My Bill Manager”.

“My Appliance Calculator” allows the user to calculate the estimated consumption cost of appliances – one at a time.

“My Bill Manager”, on the other hand, allows the user to calculate the estimated consumption cost of appliances in a table format. It allows the user to get an estimate of the household’s total electric consumption cost and see which appliances consume more electricity.

Other features of the “My Bill Manager” menu include: consumption manager, energy efficiency adviser and target bill amount estimator. Consumption manager allows the user to see the corresponding electric consumption pie chart and some text description of the chart based on the information provided by the user. The energy efficiency adviser, meanwhile, allows user to see some energy efficiency tips based on the information provided by the user. The target bill amount estimator, on the other hand, allows the user to see an estimate of his “monthly target kWh consumption” and “estimated price per kWh” by just inputting the “target electric bill
amount”.

Other new features of the M.A.C include:

e-mailing of the M.A.C web link to friends through the “email” button;
sharing the M.A.C web link to FacebookandTwitter accountsthrough the “share” button;
sending feedback to Meralco regarding the new M.A.C through the “feedback” button;
printing the computation results of “My Bill Manager” through the “print” button (for easy access and future reference of the computations), and;
viewing the basis for computing the estimated electricity consumption of home appliances for the M.A.C application through the “formula” button (so that users can validate the results of the computations).

M.A.C is easy to use. Mommy Blogger Fedhz gave it a try while enjoying a foot spa at Beauty and Butter.

Mommy Bloggers trying out the Meralco Appliance Calculator.

Meralco Maliwanag Ang Pasko Grand Lighting Ceremonies

Meralco Christmas Tree

For someone who is living in Pasig,Meralco’s Paskuhan Village and Nativity Belenis hard not to miss. The Nativity Belen made out of recycled copper wire is just amazing. And for someone who has been living in Pasig, every Christmas, we had a feast of lights, color and hope. For some reason, we never had a chance to get up close and personal to the said attraction. But this year, it was a different story. I had a privilege not just to be up close and personal but to witness the grand lighting ceremony of the said display.

Meralco Maliwanag Ang Paskotheme for this year is UNITY or PAGKAKAISA. Aside from the traditional giant replica of theNativity Belenand Meralco’s Paskuhan Village, Meralco Ortigas Compound offers a ride on its life size electric toy train around the candy colored Toy Town with a life size (robot size) Robot on the side. The grand lighting ceremony also gives way to the introduction of Meralco Bolts as Christmas Goodwill Ambassadors.

And once again, Meralco invite their costumers to unite and brighten up their homes and spread Christmas cheers to their community. TheMaliwanag Ang Pasko decor and lighitng campaignstarted in 2006, a campaign that seeks to encourage Meralco’s costumers to spread the beauty of Christmas by decorating and lighting up their houses. For this year’s campaign,Meralco will recognize 9 of the brightest and best decorated homes all over Meralco franchise.Each house will be awarded 25,000 Philippine Pesos. Same as before, Meralco will donate the same amount to the chosen partner charitable institutions. The partner charitable institutions this year areCaritas Manila, Laura Vicuna Foundation and Childhope Asia. Interested Parties may join the campaign by calling the MaP hotline (1-800-10MaPasko or 1-800-10-6272756 for provincial entries and 885-7049 for Greater Manila costumers). Or you can log on to MaP website,www.maliwanagangpasko.com

Meralco Maliwanag Ang Pasko Grand Lighting Ceremonies was hosted by Wilma Doesnt and Jojo Alejar. The ceremonial switching was headed by Meralco Executives including Meralco CEO, Manuel V. Pangilinan. Also present were guests from their partner charitable Institutions.

Aside from the fact that I was there to witness the ceremony, I am ecstatic because that day, I was able to test drive or test shoot my new lens! I had so much fun that day that I promise to bring the kids there so they can experience it too.