Corporate Social Responsibility Shoutout: North Palm Hotel and Garden

Last October 8, 2011, with the event planning and management headed by PREP Davao, an eco-friendly hotel opened. It was North Palm Hotel and Garden, located in Lanang, Davao city.

Aside from having the opportunity to own the eco-friendly hotel branding, North Palm can also help a lot in educating people on environmentally sound ways to take care of Mother Nature.

Here are some of the things that North Palm does to pay their share in taking care of our environment:

• Using solar heat to warm up your showers
• Utilizing rain water for cleaning your rooms, bathrooms, the entire hotel and for watering the plants.
• Employing waste management systems inside the room so you can properly segregate your waste
• Keeping the hallways open to let natural breeze flow through
• Using only organic detergents and cleansers for all cleaning activities
• Application of eco-friendly paint all over the hotel
• Putting the No Smoking Ordinance under strict compliance
• Use of recycled wood for flooring and stair treads

Aside from North Palm’s eco-friendly commitment, they’re also keen on aiding advocacies that help uplift livelihoods, families and communities.

Kudos to North Palm Hotel and Garden! Don't forget to show them some love! Click this link to like their Facebook page.

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Photos by DJ Tadena

Opening Event Coordination and Full Event Planning by PREP (PR, Events and Promotions)

Davao Tourism Unveils Newest Branding: Life is Here

Davao city rises to the top of the almighty list of Philippine tourist attractions with their newest branding: Life is Here.

The idea behind this tagline is to show that Davao, with its lush greens, superior security, vast lands and unbelievable talent base, can be the best place to spend and celebrate life in.

Your New PR Girl will give a more detailed explanation of this brand new campaign. For the  meantime, cheers to Davao, my home! Visit www.davaotourism.com if you love Davao. :)

Crazy Promos: 8telcom's Mobile Craze with Smart

No nonsense- 8telcom and Smart brings one crazy sale!

Buy a Nokia X2-01 and get P4950 worth of load* valid for 3 months. It's like getting your phone for free!!!

If you buy 2 Nokia X2-01 phones, you get each at the discounted price of P3,900 (that's more than 25% discount folks!) PLUS you get a free Nokia 1280 phone! AND we thought phones were supposed to be expensive! Hahaha!

This sale is brought to you by the joint craziness of Smart and 8telcom, located at the ground floor of Gaisano Mall of Davao (Atrium). Sale valid for June 24-26 only. Go crazy now! :-)

*Smart load

Regards,

Your New PR Girl

Globe Labs Unveils Mobile Apps Contest

          

           Globe Telecom recently launched MobApp Hunt 2011, a program for Filipino developers to showcase their creativity in building mobile applications for Android, BlackBerry and iPhone devices. The program aims to recognize and reward local talent in building innovative mobile applications that build on top of network services like mobile broadband, short messaging, voice and location based services

          MobApp Hunt 2011 is being spearheaded by Globe Labs – created in 2008 to expose the company and its partners to emerging technology and innovations as well as identify and develop unique applications that can be commercially introduced in the fixed and wireless consumer market. It aims to usher in the latest information and communication technologies at the earliest market-relevant time to consumers.

“Through MobApp Hunt 2011, we are creating a venue to develop and commercialize the ingenuous creations of our mobile developers, as well as provide them tools to hone their talents further,” said Blue de Venecia, Head of Globe Labs. “Globe Labs has always been at the forefront of extending support to Filipino innovations especially in the field of information and communications technology. With MobApp Hunt 2011, we will continue to engage our mobile developers by giving them opportunities to showcase their innovations both here and abroad.”

            MobApp Hunt 2011 is open to all individuals and companies registered with the Globe Labs Developer Community. Registration can be done online via the Globe Labs Developer Portal at www.globelabs.com.ph where proposal forms can be downloaded. Participants can be individuals or teams, where teams can have a maximum number of 5 members. Submission of proposals is slated until May 23, 2011.

            Announcement of accepted proposals will be on June 6, 2011. Successful developers will have six weeks to create their applications. Participants will also get the chance to attend various trainings, and technical and user interface workshops to help them improve and enhance their creations.

Successful developers will get the chance to have their apps published on myGlobe Free Apps or iTunes (for iOS apps) and receive Php50,000 as reward for each app published.

MobApp Hunt was successfully introduced to the developer community last year with the primary goal of tapping the skills and talents of Filipino developers in the different mobile platforms such as Android, BlackBerry, iOS, MIDP2.0 and Symbian/QT.

For inquiries, visit www.globelabs.com.ph/pages/mobapphunt.aspx.