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Jane with her character from Perfect World Let me just take this opportunity to greet the CEO of Level Up Philippines, Ms. Jane Walker! She’s one of the best mentors I’ve ever had and I look forward to another good year at Level Up with her and the rest of the team. Cheers!

I was doing my daily blog hopping when I found this really interesting article from Problogger. He talks about a recent study published that basically shows where the human eye goes and stays in websites. This is a good resource material for bloggers, marketers, and web developers because it gives you tips on how to [...]

Remember what HR Expert Sonnie Santos said in his interview about Personal Branding? One of his key points was to make use of LinkedIn, a social network that’s mostly used by corporate headhunters and recruiters. I just wanted to share with everyone that LinkedIn is really effective, and I recently got several inquiries. Note that [...]

I had the pleasure of being invited to be a respondent/resource person for a feature being done by QTV’s QTube about the Ako Mismo Campaign. The guys came to my office last week and we did a quick interview about my thoughts on the project – more specifically what went wrong at the start and [...]

Okay, I’m a sucker for quizzes in Facebook. There’s this new quiz going around wherein users can actually make their own test and send it to their friends (How well do you know me?). I managed to score 100% on the quiz of my girlfriend, Mich (rawr!). I’ve made my own quiz as well. It [...]

Janette Toral recently launched the top 10 influential emerging blogs project. Basically bloggers nominate 10 blogs that just started May 2008 that they think have grown in readership and influence. You don’t have to write down all 10 and you can edit your entries until August 2, 2009. I had problems getting 10 blogs since [...]

Last February, I had an officemate do a guest post on Pinoy Food Critic about her trip to Singapore. She did a blog post on Chewy Junior, a pastry shop which specializes in small cake snacks. Apparently that blog post played a role in the decision to have them actually start a franchise here in [...]

I organized a blog event for the Blas F. Ople Policy Center last night and I had the chance to get a quick interview with Ms. Janette Toral about the recently concluded iBlog5. Since we were already there, I also asked about her plans for iBlog6 as well as her new project, the Top 10 [...]

In the recently concluded iBlog5, the 4 Types of Bloggers post that I made several weeks ago was cited by speakers and by the attendees asking questions. However, I think it got the most attention during the talk of the last speaker, Anton Diaz from Our Awesome Planet. In his talk, Anton explained that he [...]

Though I was late, I was still able to make it to the iBlog 5 Saturday afternoon. I feel bad that I missed all the speakers in the morning but at least I was able to hear almost everyone during the afternoon sessions. First things first though, let me give a shout out to the [...]

I had the chance to visit Senator Antonio Trillanes in Camp Crame a few days ago. We talked a lot about different topics but mostly on the current political landscape. I know a lot of people have branded Senator Trillanes negatively due to his stint at the Manila Peninsula, but after meeting him face-to-face and [...]

I’m about to leave a coffee shop in Tomas Morato to head over to UP Diliman for iBlog5. I’m actually already late since it started around 8AM today. Had to meet a client first. Anyway, if you’re there, please do say hi. I’d love to meet new people. Cheers!

In the past few weeks, I’ve been helping out a few friends start their own personal blogs. I’ve keep on repeating the same advice on how to make money with blogging so I’ve decided to just write a post that sums up everything I know about how to monetize your blog. By no means are [...]

Ako Mismo Endorser Maxene Magalona spoke out on Facebook to defend the project after Jaime Garchitorena’s e-mail finally reached her when she read about it on Multiply. Initially, I was a bit offended with her note since it basically said that the people against the campaign made the country look bad. I agree with Juned’s [...]

After several days of speculation, we finally have someone who’s taking ownership of the Ako Mismo Campaign. DDB, one of the leading advertising agencies in the Philippines, created a new section in the Ako Mismo website – “Who is behind Ako Mismo?” and they’ve also updated the FAQ section. Here they answer most of the [...]

The Blas F. Ople Policy Center, which is led by former Labor Undersecretary Susan “Toots” Ople, produced this video which aims to warn existing and soon-to-be OFWs about the dangers of dealing with Illegal Recruiters. The video has some examples of our countrymen who were taken advantage of, abused, and abandoned. Please feel free to [...]

SMART Communications, the biggest mobile network and the company being tagged as the primary drivers of the Ako Mismo Campaign, recently said that they had nothing to do with the said project. In an interview with Inquirer.net, they plainly denied that they were the owners and they had plans of selling the potential database that [...]

A lot of bloggers have been talking about the implications of the Ako Mismo Campaign which is being funded by the PLDT-SMART Foundation. Accusations have already been hurled left and right against it but it looks like it’s still growing. As of this writing, they’ve already reached more than 40,000 registrations. I went through most [...]

Tonyo Cruz left a very interesting comment at my previous post which pretty much sums up all the doubts raised by a lot of many people with the Ako Mismo Campaign. The concept of the campaign is really inspiring, and I’m sure that a lot of you will agree that this has a lot of [...]

A new TVC was recently launched which had a bunch of Filipino superstar celebrities which include (not limited to): Charice Pempengco, Arnel Pineda, Angel Locsin, Lucky Manzano, Edu Manzano and Chris Tiu. The campaign was called “AKO MISMO” and it basically talks about encouraging the viewers to play a more active role in nation building [...]