Trends and Spots is a portal to different places, events and people’s spaces. It is a window to each unique experience in life celebrated in million ways. This website will help you meet new people and cultures.
Unlike the typical website that tours a reader and provides information on how to get around cities or places, Trends and Spots is a BLOGMAG. It could be a first of its kind in the internet industry. As the name suggests, a blogmag is a fusion of a weblog and a magazine.
Blogs are documentation of the daily life, mostly written in a first-person account. Meanwhile, a magazine is a kind of publication that contains variety of articles, regularly published in a given frequency, either weekly or monthly.
Trends and Spots therefore provides a fresh outlook merging the best features of a weblog and a magazine. This blogmag provides interesting features of events and places in short narratives while it has a window on personal experiences about dining, leisure, business, travel and more about living. This is a weekly blogmag.
Founders and Authors
Trends and Spots is an original concept of siblings Minerva Zamora-Arceo and Den Zamora. Both are into visual arts, communication arts, information technology, marketing and advertising. Both also studied at the University of the Philippines Baguio.
Den Zamora is a graduate of Visual Arts and has a work history as TSR, SEO, Technical Writer, Web Copywriter, and Graphic Artist. She has consultancy works in arts and designs with various private companies.
Minerva Z. Arceo is the manager and owner of Connect-Plus Public Relations and Advertising Agency. She is also a board of trustee of the Advocacy for the Development of Central Luzon (ADCL), a non-stock non-profit regional organization that is mostly composed of private sector leaders. A former full-time journalist writing for SunStar and Philippine Post and part-time broadcaster at dwGV AM 792, she still writes a column at Punto Gitnang Luzon. She likewise maintains consultancy works for media and communications with various national and local government agencies.
Ely Onanad, the website developer, has been developing websites since 1999. He is a graduate of Computer Science and Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications in Angeles University Foundation. He has developed skills to effectively convey business communication and processes through this new media called the internet by means of creating eye catching and user friendly websites.
Contributors
Rey Pineda, Clarence Flores, Janice Morales, Ruby Yanez, Croilei, PTA
Photographers
Alex “Bruno” Tiotuico, Ric Gonzales, Albert Lacanlale, Jon Tanganco
