About CDOBloggers Network
CDOBloggers, Inc. or the Cagayan de Oro Bloggers Incorporated, is a group of bloggers in Cagayan de Oro City and Northern Mindanao that enjoys the camaraderie offline among mostly online people in their daily life and organize to create positive change for Cagayan de Oro and the Island of Mindanao. It is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as a non-profit organization. The composition of the members are mostly Bloggers and Social Media Content Creators in CDO and Northern Mindanao.
One of our mission is to create positive change by promoting the city of Cagayan de Oro and the entire island of Mindanao as a peaceful and thriving place in this part of the world through social media to share the positive experience we enjoy as people who is living and having a great life in this part of the world in contrast to the mostly negative perception that people only heard or read and have not yet visited the place.
How it all started
CDOBloggers is an organization that started on November 8, 2008, with a gathering of bloggers at Mindy’s Restaurant in the Divisoria area of Cagayan de Oro City in the Philippines. The group was initiated by Chiq Montes, who invited a group of bloggers to discuss the possibility of hosting the 3rd Mindanao Bloggers Summit in Cagayan de Oro.
In 2009, the group officially registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and successfully hosted the 3rd Mindanao Bloggers Summit in October of that year. The event was attended by bloggers from across the Philippines and was even graced by the Consul General of the U.S. Embassy representing U.S. Ambassador Kirsti Kenny at that time.
Since then, CDOBloggers has continued to promote Cagayan de Oro as a bustling and peaceful city through their blog posts, highlighting the city’s many attractions and dispelling the notion that the entire island of Mindanao is a war-torn area.
As CDOBloggers celebrates its 16th anniversary, the group looks forward to many more years of promoting Cagayan de Oro and the Philippines through their blogging efforts.
By: Mike Abonitalla
Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board
