GdayX PH

by: Fidel Delos Reyes
     2009-31842

Last Saturday, November 23 2013, i was lucky enough to be able to come to the GBG's (Google Business Groups) event called GdayX Ph which aims to inform businessmen, entrepreneurs and students about their latest products and services that may help them in their business and their daily lives.

Waking up late at around 8 am (the event starts at 8 am), i hurried with my friend to Xavier school in San Juan where the event was held, and was fortunate enough to listen to the first speaker. The first speaker was Gail Tan, in her keynote speech, she talked about their history and their aim and what every business entrepreneurs should think about in their business, and that is the users. In her whole talk she really emphasized about the "user" and that businessmen should always think about what the users need and getting their opinions is of grave importance in which i agree because i think a good business is a community between the users and the company, and the user's opinion is the key for it to grow especially for businesses like google.

The second and third speakers talks about the technical aspects of google products and services; the tools for business like Gmail, hangouts, google docs and the Google Drive. This talk was held by Heradl Uy and Therence Resabal repectively. I pretty much enjoyed this talk because i learned a lot about the stuff that i use and more of what it could give me. One thing is the google drive, i've always thought of it as one big USB in the net but apparently it can also be used for much bigger things like businesses and is being used by large known companies. Also i enjoyed a lot of its feature like the cloud based technology where you can store up to 15 gb worth of space for free and also the collaborative feature of the google docs connecting many users ideas simultaneously. I would say that these two are good salesman endorsing a good product.

The fourth speaker Trixie Canivel, talked about youtube for businesses. As the second most used search site in the web how it is great for endorsing businesses or even broadcasting a talent you can share. She shared two very good examples of youtube endorsing where you can get people to buy a dollar shave with good marketing and also creating an opportunity for yourself by posting to the world your talent like doing make up.

All in all I had a great time in the Gdayx event, i even got a notebook and stress ball for asking why youtube is so slow when rebuffing a video. The talks where very informative and it even inspired me to think about making my own business in the future and use google as a tool to help me obtain it.