Angeles Inaugurates its 1st Google Business Group Chapter in Central Luzon

Google Business Group Angeles held an inauguration event last Thursday, February 20, 2014 to officially open its first chapter in Central Luzon. GBG Angeles welcomed its first set of members to DM Residente Resort to celebrate this occasion.

GBG Angeles is a community of professionals based in Angeles City and adjacent cities who are passionate in utilizing Google products and other web technologies to improve their business, organization or company. The meetup was lead by Google Business Group founder Carissa Coles and co-founder Rhena Jean Lubao. GBG Angeles aims to become the most dynamic and technology-driven business community in Pampanga and adjacent provinces. Its mission is to collaborate, share and inspire members to leverage Google products and web technologies to improve their business. In addition, members of GBG Angeles can network with other GBG independent communities globally.

JR Padilla of GBG Dagupan talked about the efforts of volunteers during typhoon Ondoy and Haiyan. It showed that GBGs are not just into sharing about technology but also open in helping kababayans during crises.

DM Residente recognizes the initiative of the community. The company itself is committed to serve its customers with warmth accommodation and impeccable service. DM Residente has six elegant types of rooms, with very inexpensive rates. Service-oriented staffs that maintain cleanliness and orderliness of each room.

All types of rooms are fully-airconditioned which include complete facilities; a comfortable bed, shower with heater, mini-refrigerator, wide-screen television, internet connections, and direct telephone lines.

Special thanks to our partners DM Residente Inns and Villas, Teph Lacson Photography, and GBG Dagupan.

GBG Angeles Inaugural Meetup

Google Business Group Angeles is hosting its inaugural meet-up to introduce the role of GBG, community building and team development for next initiatives.

Set to happen at DM Resort in Angeles City, this event promises an exciting collaboration of GBG Angeles members.

Agenda

    06:00pm – 06:30pm – Registration/A little networking
    06:30pm – 06:45pm - JR Padilla, GBG Dagupan
    06:45pm – 07:10pm – Introduction to GBG Angeles by Carissa
    07:10pm – 07:20pm - Questions/Answers
    07:20pm – 08:00pm – Member Introductions* moderated by Ms. Dolores
    08:00pm – 08:30pm – Planning for other GBG Angeles activities (Moderated by Rhena) **
    08:30pm – onwards – Networking/snacks ***
    09:00pm – Event ends

How to get there?

DM Resort's address is Rina St. Sta Maria 1 Balibago, Angeles City.


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What will I be doing there?

* Introductions: We request everyone to bring business cards and introduce themselves to the group.

Please provide:

Name
Occupation/Business
About your business/occupation
What you need
What you want to contribute to GBG
We will leave about 1-2mins each member to do this.

** Please prepare your ideas on future GBG events and how we can sustain our activities.

*** We will leave a laptop open to encourage everyone to post a review for our sponsor DM Residente

1st GBG Angeles Meetup at Beatico

The Meet Up was led by Google Business Group Angeles founder Carissa Coles and co-founder Rhena Jean Lubao. We decided to meetup at Beatico Balibago and started the conversation at 3pm. GBG Angeles aims to become the most dynamic and technology-driven business community in Pampanga and adjacent provinces.

The meetup was attended by 10 people who are now official members of the group. We talked about Google's initiatives this year such as Inaugural Meetup, MapUp, Women on the Web, gDayX, and Transformation Challenge Workshop Series.

All of us shared ideas on how we can pull these off and make it successful. We're looking forward to these events.

You can find more pictures here.

GBG Angeles MapUp | March 6, 2014| SPCF Cisco Lab

We're having another awesome MapUp. If you'd like to learn more about Google MapMaker, come to this event.

See event details:

What: GBG Angeles 2nd MapUp
When: Thursday, March 6, 2014
Where: SPCF Main Campus, CISCO Lab
Arrival: 9:30AM - 12:00PM at SPCF Main Campus, CISCO Lab
Time: 9:30AM - 12:00PM

What is a MapUp?

A MapUp is an event in which a group of people come together to improve the places they know and love on Google Maps by using Google Map Maker. MapUps can focus on the map of a neighborhood, region, or even for a particular feature such as hiking trails or cycling routes. MapUps can also serve to teach new mappers how to use Google Map Maker, bring together experienced mappers, and everything in between.

What type of MapUp are we going to do?

Simple MapUp

Attendees in a room with laptops and internet connection, train you on the MapMaker tool & start mapping right away!

Mappers are required to bring the following

1. Laptop
2. Backup internet/mobile data
3. At least 20 new places or edits on the map for each mapper
4. Other (extension wires, etc)

Reminders:

1. Be at venue by 9:30AM - 9:45AM.

2. When entering the gate of SPCF, show your I.D. to the security guard.

3. Proceed to CISCO Lab

5. Turn on party mode on Google+ event (after confirming on the event page) https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112033939506176928947/events/c29onb9j0jf7ontu8r254n34ibs so that you can easily take photos and upload them on the event page for mapping later.

Register your spot here: http://goo.gl/djRwRl Limited seats available!

For concerns or questions, please contact Carissa Coles at carissa@gbgangeles.org.

This MapUp event is supported by GBG Dagupan and our venue partner Systems Plus College Foundation.

Cheers and see you on March 6!

1st Angeles City MapUp

We had a successful MapUp last year. Thanks to JR Padilla of GBG Dagupan being our MapUp trainer.

Our MapUp event is a Geo-walk where mappers went out to look for business, landmarks, and other places and get information about the business (business name, store hours and complete address). We also took few photos of the business we mapped.

Our goal which is to map the entire Angeles City is not finish in this event but we encouraged each other to continue what we've started.

We still have a lot of mapups coming in this 2014 and we're looking forward to bring in more mappers.

Happy Mapping!

Welcome to GBG Angeles

Hi there! Welcome to Google Business Group (GBG) Angeles blog.

This is a community of professionals based in Angeles City and adjacent cities who are passionate in utilizing Google products and other web technologies to improve their business, organization or company.

If you are a business owner, professional, or an independent consultant, we'd love to know more about you and how we can collaborate, share and learn from each other to keep up with this fast-paced digital age.

For more news and updates, visit our G+ page.