Janette Toral

Current

Co-Owner at Blog4Reviews.com
Publisher, Author, Online Trainer at Blogging from Home book and e-learning project
Marketing Partner and Content Manager at Ratified.org Australia

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Past

SEO Consultant - Project basis at Softrigger Interactive
Executive Director at Congressional Oversight for the E-Commerce Law
Software Process Improvement Consultant at Development Bank of the Philippines Data Center Inc.

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Janette Toral’s Summary

Janette Toral started pursuing opportunities in the field of computers back in 1989 at STI-Kalookan. She left early 1991 as chief operating officer of its Taytay branch to pursue creative challenges. In 1995, she started speaking in major IT events about complex e-mail, groupware, and document management systems that paved the way for columnist and writer stint in various publications.

Janette co-founded the Philippine Internet Commerce Society in 1997 and lobbied for the passage of the Y2K Law and E-Commerce Law. She published her e-commerce book in the year 2000 that gave birth to DigitalFilipino.com. She is the first Filipino author published by McGraw-Hill Education Asia.

She pushed for CMM/CMMI adoption in 2001 that made it to the government's priority ICT development program. She continues this advocacy to date at http://www.cmmiphilippines.com

She started the DigitalFilipino Club (http://www.e-commercephilippines.com) in December 2003 that serves as an e-commerce advocacy, research, consulting, advertising, and training platform with close to 100 members.

Janette is a recipient of the DTI/CITEM E-Services Philippines E-Champion Award 2008 for Policy Development following Senators Magsaysay and Roxas.

In April 2009, she expanded her blog marketing business by collaborating on the formation of Blog4Reviews (http://www.blog4reviews.com) and will be launching a complementary Internet advertising engine soon.

Janette's 2010 advocacy focuses on social media & search engine marketing awareness, blogging as tool for Philippines 2010 elections transparency, use of blogs & social networks for livelihood, conducting trainings via webinar, making DigitalFilipino Club a TED-like community, and Internet content development by children.

Janette Toral’s Specialties:

blog marketing, blog advertising, internet marketing, search engine marketing, search engine advertising, web analytics review, email marketing, social network marketing, social network advertising, e-commerce, blogging, google adwords account management, web copywriting, software process improvement, webinar

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Janette Toral’s Groups:

Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines (Founding/Charter Board Member)
Philippine Internet Commerce Society (Founder/Charter President)