Whether you’re a visitor, new to our province, a life-long resident, or are looking for a favorable business climate to expand or relocate a commercial enterprise, this website welcomes you to Leytecentral.com.
Leytecentral.com is a comprehensive online portal that gives you all the information you need that the island of Leyte can offer. From present local content, community link directories, news, community event calendars, and more. This site is designed in the public interest to make community content more accessible.
We aim that Leytecentral.com provides an excellent method of engaging people, government agencies, organizations, businesses, tourism, lifestyle and provides a “central source of information.”
UPDATES
May 2008
- Fellow Ormocanons had a meeting here in Cebu to come up with a portal for Leyte.
- Related post can be found at
http://leytecentral.wordpress.com
June 23, 2008
- Started gathering and compiling phone directories of establishments from Ormoc and Tacloban. Will upload the data once ready. Do the same with the other neighboring towns, cities and municipalities.
- Started preparing some contents for the website
June 24, 2008
- Availed of a web hosting provider and configured the Online Forum.
- Submitted the draft of our contest to fellow founders for comments. This is in preparation for the launching of our contest. Started looking for sponsors.
July 12, 2008
- Arrived in Ormoc City on July 12 and met the Editors-in-Chief / Publishers of two local newspapers in Ormoc. These two newspapers signed our contract of agreement "as media partners" to feed online news for
http://www.leytecentral.com.
- Met my contact in HotFM Ormoc for possible partnership.
August 8, 2008
- Official launching of
http://www.leytecentral.com
- Open for sponsors and partnership
August 25 - 27, 2008
- Visit Ormoc and Tacloban for a business meeting with local individuals, organizations, government agencies, internet cafes and schools in the province and explore some long term possibilities
- Meet local officials to help promote tourism especially the unexplored tourist spots (like whale watching in Sogod, Southern Leyte)
December 2008
- Proposed First public event of
http://www.leytecentral.com which is dubbed as "Leyte Central: Unplug"
- Open for sponsors and partnerships
- Looking for Event Organizers to help us with this activity
- Other activities include:
a) Bloggers: Hall of Fame (Talk / Presentation / Seminar)
= Inviting all bloggers from Leyte and Samar
b) Awarding of Plaque of Appreciation to our Sponsors
c) Presentation of Leyte Central website
d) Contest
e) Food and Music / Bands
January 2009
- Submit year-end report to all our sponsors and partners
KEEP VISITING THIS THREAD FOR MORE UPDATES. SCHEDULES AND FUTURE ACTIVITIES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE.
LEYTE CENTRAL WEBSITE IS NOW OPEN FOR PUBLIC VIEWING.
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www.leytecentral.com