New Media Philippines

Adobo Magazine just announced that they’re accepting entries for the Adobo Magazine Design Awards! It’s nice that digital is represented in one major category and in one special award. The major category being WEBSITES and the special award for Best Use of Social Media or Viral Marketing. For work to be eligible they need to [...]

DigitalFilipino is gearing up for their 3rd E-commerce Summit this coming February, 2012. Headlining the speaker line-up is Gillian Muessig, President & Co-Founder of company that created some of the most popular SEO software programs in the world, SEOmoz. Muessig will deliver a keynote speech that will set the theme of the conference which is [...]

In the the last 29 years of my life I’ve been to a lot of product launches and events. I’ve been to product launches in and out of the Philippines. However I think I just saw the biggest, wildest, and craziest product launch… ever. Last Thursday Smart Communications shut down Power Plant Mall in Rockwell [...]

The Philippine Blog Awards 2011 was held last week at the Carlos P. Romulo auditorium in RCBC Building, Makati City. I’ve always made in a point to support this activity (even when I was still with Level Up) because I believe that this event is helpful for the Filipino blogging community. Hopefully I’ll still be [...]

Ever since MVP’s speech during the Ad Congress I’ve wanted to break down some of his major points. I’ve been wanting to do this commentary for the longest time now but I’ve been really busy with work, family, and Unbox. Now that I’m sick at home though I have all the time do work on [...]

This is the last entry for the IMMAP Open Mic Night Coverage. If you haven’t read the first two entries, click here for PART 1 and click here for PART 2. To close let me just share with everyone my presentation during that evening. Before we get to the video though allow me to walk [...]

Here’s part 2 of the three-part series on the IMMAP Open Mic Night (Pecha Kucha) Coverage. If you haven’t read the first article yet, please click here. The first entry talked about the insights I picked up from Jayvee, Anna, Jay, Andre, and Chay. This entry has the second set of speakers. Unfortunately I wasn’t [...]

This is a 3-part blog series covering the IMMAP Open Mic Night (Pecha Kucha) held last November 10 at Craft in Fort Bonifacio. For this first entry I’ll share the lessons and insights I picked up from Jayvee Fernandez, Anna Oposa, Jay Jaboneta, Chay Saputil, and Andrew Yap. The second post will talk about insights [...]

Fundamentals of Social Media Talk at KBP I was invited by the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) to give a quick talk and a forum about the basics of social media marketing. Since I’m currently with TV5 (a KBP member), I immediately said yes! It was also a first for me to talk [...]

The Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines (IMMAP) is holding an Open Mic Night using the Pecha Kucha format on November 10, 7PM, at Craft (Fort Strip). There will be 20 speakers who will be giving talks that have just 20 slides and they can only spend 20 seconds each per slide. The [...]

I’ll be giving a 1-hour lecture on “how to protect your reputation online” this coming Thursday at SEMCON 2011. It’s an honor for me to be part of the speakers for this event especially since it’s organized by one of my mentors in blogging, Abe Olandres (aka Yugatech). That’s actually the main reason why I [...]

The Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines (IMMAP) just announced the new Board of Directors for 2012 and I must say I’m impressed! I’m looking forward to a great year ahead for the industry with these guys leading the way for Digital Marketers. Extra special shout out has to go to Coni Cruz. [...]

I just received an invite over e-mail for the upcoming Multiply Shopping Party next Tuesday. It’s basically an all-night party combined with a fashion show and probably a lot of shopping, hehe. Congratulations to Multiply for stepping up their marketing efforts here in the Philippines.

Now this is interesting! The Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines (IMMAP) is throwing an Open Mic Night event on November 10. It will follow the PechKucha format wherein speakers just have 20 slides and they can only talk 20 seconds per slide. Speakers will be sharing great ideas with any of the [...]

I was invited to give a short 10-minute talk about social media at the PANA Foundation Youth Congress held at the Erwin Lee Theater in Ateneo. The audience was composed of students from different universities all over the country. It was definitely a fulfilling experience and I’m always thankful and honored each time I get [...]

Azrael invited me to give a short talk during the Blogger Fiesta 2011 held at SM North Edsa Cyberzone last Saturday. Over 180 bloggers joined the whole day activity and I saw a lot of familiar faces. What’s interesting though is that I saw a lot of bloggers who just started last year. It looks [...]

I was invited to give a short keynote talk at the PROICT Cyberforum 2011 which was held at Camp Crame. The topic assigned to me was the influence of social media in the context of cybercrime. The event had around 200-230 attendees mostly teachers, government employees (TESDA/CHED/PNP), and students. Shared with the audience the latest [...]

I just got this invite in my e-mail inbox. The Globe Tatt Awards Night will be this Friday already! Time flies by so fast. I wasn’t able to heavily campaign for votes, haha! Anyway, to those who already voted, thank you from the bottom of my heart. To those who haven’t please do go to [...]

I attended both days of the Internet and Mobile Marketing Association (IMMAP) Summit last week. Unlike usual conferences that are held in hotels and expo centers like the World Trade Center, this was held at the theaters of Power Plant Mall. I heard from the organizers that they wanted to make the event more accessible [...]

Social media has radically changed blogging. It’s much easier to get more readers, build communities, and distribute your content because of Facebook and Twitter. Another powerful and yet untapped tool is Google+. Not all bloggers are taking advantage of these platforms and it will be my job to share with everyone how to do so. [...]