Manila Bulletin Online

http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2006/06/02/INFO2006060265720.html
Filipina podcast goes high gear
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Janette Toral of DigitalFilipino.com released the 4th episode of the DigitalFilipino.com Podcast, a twice a month program, featuring interviews of Rodney Jao on Davao’s outsourcing destination challenges, Stephanie Caragos on the forthcoming Mindanao ICT Congress, and Cebu-based Dann Diez on online network marketing. This extensive personal podcast can be downloaded at http://digitalfilipino.podomatic.com.

"The DigitalFilipino Podcast allows us to connect to the growing Filipino Internet community throughout the country and overseas," said Janette Toral, host and co-producer editor of The DigitalFilipino Podcast. "It gave me opportunity to continue my broadcasting hobby that I pursued before with Infotech Radio and CoolIT in the year 1999-2001.’

Toral’s podcast topics include news and updates in DigitalFilipino.com, chat with Internet personalities and her club members, personal tech advise, and events she supports. DigitalFilipino.com Podcast runs for 25 to 30 minutes and new episode is released every other Friday.

"For the month of June, we will be going weekly to celebrate the I.T. month and 6th year anniversary of Republic Act 8792 or the E-Commerce Law," Toral added.

The DigitalFilipino.com Podcast was launched last April 2006 and is co-produced by Pocholo Gonzales of Creative Voices Productions (http://www.creativoices.com). Its programming is similar to a radio show that has segments and sponsors. To date, it is the first Philippine podcast with commercial sponsors beginning its 2nd episode.

Listeners can tune in to the podcast by visiting http://digitalfilipino.podomatic.com and can also download the episode file to their computer and transfer it to an mp3 player or mobile phone.

DigitalFilipino.com is the personal website of Janette Toral promoting her e-commerce book and Philippine Internet documentary.