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Dazzling Dasol

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Dasol is a town in Western Pangasinan, just right after Mabini and Burgos. It boasts of beautiful and Boracay-like beaches, salt farms and marine bounties such as lobsters, squid, crabs and prawns. Dasol is also known for its Duhat and Bignay wine. They also have a new and elegant municipal building where government transactions and services are being rendered. A brief chat with Mayor Noel Nacar revealed that his town has a big potential in terms of tourism activities and investment. He said that promoting Dasol is quite a challenge but with the help of Dasolinians in and out of the town, they can make Dasol another tourist destination in the west. 1Digitech Philippines, Inc. is a proud partner of promoting the town of Dasol and its potentials.

Meeting with Google's Janet Yoon

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We have been contemplating for quite sometime on how to introduce Google Apps for Edu for Pangasinan schools. The Provincial Government thru Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. wanted to help in upgrading the quality of education in the province, helping students and educators learn and teach with technology and so an exploratory meeting is being set up with the Pangasinan Digital team and Google Inc.'s champion for Google Apps for Edu, Janet Yoon. During the meeting we asked her how do we start with the project, what do we need to do, what are we going to prepare? We also asked her if they could train our team to be able to effectively pitch it to our partners. And she affirmed that indeed, they could help us. We are excited about this project and we hope to execute this soon for the benefit of our pupils, students and the academe. Right now, we are mapping 47 towns/cities in the Province and we are using Google Mapmaker to edit places, points of interest, schools, barangay h

Google MapUp goes to Urdaneta City

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Urdaneta City is one of the mot economically vibrant cities in the province of Pangasinan. This afternoon we are now going to map up this city and participants were from all departments of the city government. 29 participants have prepared their netbooks so that they could help in putting their communities in Google Map. The event is spearheaded by the Provincial Government of Pangasinan headed by Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. The Public Order and Safety Office headed the said map up session.

Posting from an iPhone

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How's blogging from an iphone? This is a test. If this is easy and convenient, i will be using this more often since i like to blog everyday and having a convenient platform is always a challenge.