About

Who’s this dude?

Vernon Joseph “Iggy” Go was born and raised in Cebu City, took up his Elementary & Secondary education at the Sacred Heart School – Jesuits, now SHS-AdC (Sacred Heart School - Ateneo de Cebu); in college took up BSIE (Industrial Engineering).

Vernon was recently awarded the Camma Awards (15th CAMMA 2011) ~Cebu Archdiocese Mass Media Awards, Best in Personal Website. He is currently a member of the Cebu Blog Camp organizing Team and former President of the Cebu Bloggers Society Inc. (CBSI); a cebu-based blogging community, a registered, non-government, non-profit organization, dedicated to Cebu's Tourism, Culture, Heritage and Environment and its people.

Vernon also heads a Start-Up education and consultancy firm on Emerging Media of GeOh MEdia. He looks to the future with big plans, dreams and with great enthusiasm.

In this blog you will find:

• Articles which may help you with in some interesting events, social work, environmental rants and/or views, political complaints, and professional stressors.
• Fresh content is added regularly, I blog at a maximum of 3 times a week, also I may also blog about the current events and happenings here in cebu.

Speaking:

If you’re looking for a speaker, check out Speaking information page. Vernon speaks on various topics relating to social media, blogging, cyber wellness, youth advocacy, Industrial Engineering ideas and the like.

What Vernon has done...

If you’re wondering why you’re even bothering to read anything Vernon says or writes, here are a few bullet points of things that he’s done in his past that might be relevant or not:

• Created and operated an on and off blog since 2004 via friendster, multiply then finally through blogger last 2008 and wordpress. (Got into serious blogging because of  the guerilla blogger)
• Got Educated Schooled in Sacred Heart School (Jesuits) Ateneo de Cebu - SHS-AdC & Cebu Institute of Technology - University with a degree in Industrial Engineering.
• Engaged in Student Organizational activities for the IE Council and the Technologian Student Press
• Has worked in a local BPO Firm serving clients from US and Canada.
• Gained Media and PR Experiences through blogging, wrote articles and Press Releases published in local newspapers
• Did some Event Coverages in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao (Manila-Cebu-Davao)
• Collaborated and participated on Blogging and Social Media Activities over the course of 2010
• Recently launched a blogging IEC program in Schools called Blog Talk @ Schools

Disclosures and affiliation

• An alumni of a Youth-Citizenship-Education and Leadership Training Program - Young Minds Academy 3 of RAFI - Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc.
• A member & Social Media Specialist of ALEx - Aboitiz Leaders of Excellence - A youth-umbrella organization of RAFI - Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc.'s youth programs
• Finished/Alumni of TechBootCamp 2010, a Techbology Business Training Program of DOST-7, Filipinnovation, Ayala Technology Business Incubator-Ayala Foundation
• Former President of the Cebu Bloggers Society Inc.
• Created a Start-Up, GeOh MEdia
• VP for Social Media for MIND-7 - Media Information Network for Nutrition and Development

CHECK OUT MY LINKEDIN Profile.

You may also stalk visit Vernon Go in facebook or you can "LIKE" my public page there as well (Just type in Vernon Joseph Go and you'll find me :D). For Twitter @VernonGo or @GeOhMEdia

Special Thanks to Orville, Bryan Karl, and ate Pibsz for there assistance when I was still starting out.

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