New Media Philippines

I’m proud of how our news portal, InterAksyon, has been doing lately. I’m really happy that the people running the show know and understand the nature of the web and social media. One of the biggest mistakes that news portals make is that they just try to put the entire newspaper on a website. The [...]

The surge of easy-to-use photo, text, and video editing software and applications gives the phrase “out of context” more relevance and meaning to brands, especially public figures. How many times have we seen demeaning videos, photos, and quotes from celebrities and their primary defense is that the material released to the public was edited? Our [...]

I’m here right now at UCC in Fort Bonifacio waiting for my next meeting and I decided to do a quick blog entry using the iPad. The ability to blog on a portable machine like a tablet was the reason why I decided to get the first generation iPad last year. However I still end [...]

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is one of the biggest companies in the world. That’s why each time they do something it’s interesting to monitor and analyze because it’s the result of millions of dollars of research. They recently changed their website in time for Wrestlemania 27. Their old site used to have a lot of [...]

I found the recording of the video stream of my iBlog 7 presentation, 10 Power Blogging Tips, on JustinTV. This was recorded by Janette using her MacBook Pro so the quality of the video isn’t all that good. I’ll edit this post and embed a higher quality one if ever it becomes available. By the [...]

Last Friday at iBlog 7 I gave a talk entitled “10 Power Blogging Tips“. I uploaded the slides for everyone’s reference below. However as most of the people who were there would know, I verbalized almost everything. The slides just served as an outline. I tried my very best to reconstruct everything I said below [...]

Buffer is a new way to schedule your tweets. This is a very useful app and I highly recommend it. To start just head on over to the Buffer website and then sign-up with your e-mail address and preferred password. You can then install the Buffer app on your Chrome browser so that it will [...]

Highlighted by talks on blogging, social media marketing, and the well-applauded late entrance of Mike Abundo, iBlog 7, I would like to think, was a huge success. I was only there for a short time during the first day when I gave my talk but I was able to spend most of the afternoon of [...]

After getting a lot of complaints from users who didn’t know what they were getting into when they converted their personal profiles to official pages, Facebook decided to finally just take down the tool before more people “accidentally” used it. If you try accessing the URL of the original page it just shows the default [...]

You can now convert your personal Facebook profiles into Official Pages (Public Figure, Brand, Business, etc). Facebook rolled this out a few days ago and being the eager beaver that I am, I converted my page since I already was near the 5,000 friend limit. However it looks like I will end up regretting my [...]

Digitel’s parent company, JG Summit Holdings, disclosed yesterday to the PSE that they’re going to give up 51.55% in Digitel to PLDT. The deal will be share-swap and JG Summit Holdings will acquire 12.8% in PLDT shares. Total equity value of the entire transaction a whopping P74.1 Billion. This is definitely one of the most [...]

Facebook Questions is a new feature rolled out by Facebook. Users can post a question on their profile and all those who answer in their network will display their answers on their respective networks as well making this a potent recommendation engine. As of today it’s currently not yet activated on all Facebook Official Pages [...]

In 1964 Marshall McLuhan wrote Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. In this piece of work McLuhan coined one of the most well-known media phrases today: “the medium is the message”. This statement basically says that we shouldn’t focus just on the content of the media that we consume but we should seriously look into [...]

Senator Panfilo Lacson finally came out of hiding (1 year) after the Court of Appeals cleared him of his murder charge of Bubby Dacer. His name was also taken out of the Interpol Watch List. During his press conference this morning he was asked a barrage of questions. One of the interesting things he revealed [...]

I know a lot of bloggers but I only have a few blogger friends. Most of them are acquaintances that I meet in events/meet-ups. We all have our own individual lives and it’s rare to have deep connections and relationships. Majority of blogger-blogger relationships are limited to hi-hello’s. I have a few blogger friends who [...]

A few weeks ago I was invited by a new show called “Tayuan Mo at Panindigan!” on TV5′s news channel, AksyonTV 41. The topic was positive and negative effects of social media and technology. It was definitely one of the most unique TV guestings I’ve ever done. The format is fast paced, dynamic, and filled [...]

I’m opening up 3 slots for a blogging mentorship program. It will be entirely free and no hidden charges or whatever. This is direct coaching and mentorship on blogging, digital marketing, and social media marketing from me and maybe some of my friends from the industry. It will have 4 sessions in total (once every [...]

Blogger and entrepreneur Anton Diaz recently submitted his proposal to the Breakthrough Innovation Grant for a local Internet Marketing School for Underprivileged Scholars. The goal of the school is to offer free education for poor kids in hopes of helping them improve the quality of their lives by opening up the possibilites provided by internet [...]

A lot of talk has been going on lately on Twitter, blogs, and Facebook about a call to create a National Bloggers Association here in the Philippines. This effort is primarily spearheaded by DigitalFilipino’s Janette Toral and online journalist Tonyo Cruz. After reading through the reactions of several bloggers and talking with some of my [...]

This is a question that I always get in conferences and e-mails from readers. It’s important to know what these terms mean especially if you’re going to use a portion of your marketing budget in digital marketing. Usually publishers try to dazzle advertisers by giving unreliable data to give the impression that the website is [...]