Right before the Davao Bloggers Party #1, Janette Toral, ever a huge supporter of Davao I.T., came back to Davao for another DigitalFilipino Club eyeball. There are currently only 6 members in Davao — but hopefully more will join us. This club is the country’s only e-commerce and technopreneurship private organization.

Personally, I have benefitted from being a member. I’ve been able to get a couple of huge projects through club get-togethers and introductions.

It was rather disappointing, though, that there were only a handful of us during this eyeball. Still, I believe it was productive in the sense that those of us who were present were able to acquire useful information.

Aileen Apolo of Google Philippines did a presentation on Google AdWords. For those of you who are not yet familiar with Google’s advertising products, AdWords is the service that accepts your ad placements and allows them to be propagated on the Web. Simply put, it’s targeted towards companies and businesses that are looking into marketing their products/services via the Internet. AdSense, on the other hand, is the service that allows website owners to monetize their websites by publishing the ads.

Aileen also indicated that Google is looking at investing into tech companies in the Philippines, including Davao. She said that it won’t have to be an acquisition (or buy-out), but a joint-venture sort of arrangement. It doesn’t even have to be a very large requirement — something as small as US$5,000 might even be possible, she said. Google, in its drive to help propagate technology, is interested in software applications that involve search, imaging, SNS or community-building services, and mobile applications.

If you’re interested to pursue this or inquire into this, please e-mail me: robillo[at]gmail[.]com.