New Media Philippines

I’ll be a panelist for the IMMAP Summit later today at 3:00PM. Topic will be “How to sell Digital to your Boss”. This is definitely an interesting topic and I look forward to exchange insights with other practitioners. Other than me those in the panel are: Roshan Nandwani, Regional Account Manager, BBDO Guerrero/Proximity Philippines, Cynthia [...]

Attention all bloggers! The Philippine Blog Awards 2011 nominations were opened last June 30 and is now on-going! If you want to nominate a blog all you have to do is to register for an announce at the Philippine Blog Awards website and let them know what blog you think should be in the running [...]

Globe Telecom launched the T@tt Awards earlier this week to give recognition to individuals that have made it big through social media marketing. Personally I think this is timely considering the huge impact social media has brought about in the country. Filipinos are passionate users of Facebook and Twitter and awards like this put the [...]

On July 6 I’ll be partnering with Gary Abello, Partner ZMG Ward Howell Executive Search, for a free webinar on Digital Marketing Careers in the Philippines. The webinar is hosted and produced by IMMAP Digital Marketing Courses. This is a topic that’s very close to my heart since I’ve been in digital for a couple [...]

I was tuned in to the #digitalisnow webinar earlier this evening and I caught the announcement that the IMMAP Summit for this year will be held at Power Plant on August 17-18. This is definitely not your usual venue but I kinda like the idea! They said that IMMAP was going for a TED feel [...]

Last week I was invited to the second run of Blue Chip: Financial Literacy Program for the Youth. It was held in Enderun College in Mckinley Hill, Fort Bonifacio. I gave a talk about Personal Branding and Online Reputation Management. Instead of me describing what happened though please just watch this video recap. It was [...]

TV Network chiefs Manny V. Pangilinan (TV5), Gabby Lopez (ABS-CBN) and Atty. Felipe Gozon (GMA 7) will all share the stage at the upcoming Philippine AdCongress22 later this year. They’ll be talking about “The Future of Media”. This session alone should be enough to convince marketers to attend the event! For more information about the [...]

Filipino fashion and style bloggers are organizing their own bazaar this coming May 27 at the 32nd floor The Lounge, Malayan Plaza Hotel (across Podium), Ortigas. There will be a small entrance fee of just Php100 but there’s a 50% discount if you donate school supplies or books. Bloggers will be selling clothes, bags, shoes, [...]

Why go to the beach just to go online? A friend asked me this after I told her I went to Boracay to check out the new Smart Evolution LTE internet connection. The internet and the beach didn’t used to get along. But I haven’t seen them get along as well as fish and chips [...]

Justin Bieber’s concert is scheduled for May 10, 2011 at the Mall of Asia concert grounds. From what I’ve heard organizers are expecting 50,000 Filipinos to watch the concert. In fact most of the tickets are already sold out! Anyway, to add to the Bieber Fever in Manila, #mahalkitabieber is now a trending topic on [...]

The 2011 Cebu Blog Camp will be held at the Sacred Heart Center on May 28, 2011. Registration is free but on a first-come, first-served basis. If you’re a blogger in that area then you might want to go since this will be a great place to learn about blogging as well as meet new [...]

Organized by the Registered Financial Planner Institute Philippines (RFP), Blue Chip 2011 is one of the premiere finance and entrepreneurship programs available for the Filipino youth. In this program teens will be taught the following: how to handle their finances properly, discovering the entrepreneurial mindset, leveraging social media and how to be responsible with the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The 22nd Philippine Ad Congress will be held at Camarines Sur (CamSur) on November 16 to 19. This event happens every 2 years with the last taking place at Subic in 2009. With a theme of “The Gaming-Changing Generation”, this year’s Ad Congress will probably have a lot of content that will talk about technology [...]

iBlog7 is one of the most anticipated annual blogging events. It’s organized by the UP College of Law and they’re helped by DigitalFilipino’s Janette Toral. This is a purely non-profit activity that’s meant to help educate both new and advanced bloggers about best practices, tips, and strategies. I’ve attended the last 3 iBlogs and not [...]

The Ayala Young Leaders Conference (AYLC) is an annual event which gathers the top student leaders from all over the Philippines. It’s like a leadership/success bootcamp which features professionals from various fields sharing their experiences and lessons to the group. I was invited to be a panelist and I immediately said yes since this was [...]

New Media PH was invited to the HTC 7 Mozart Windows Phone soft launch which was held at Digital Walker in Eastwood City, Libis. It was a nice gathering of bloggers, techies, and even a few digital marketing practitioners! Congratulations to Microsoft for pulling off a great event. Anyway, moving on to the phone, I [...]

New Media PH was invited to a media event hosted by Groupon Philippines on Wednesday, February 9, 2011. We’ll be sending one of our writers to cover the event and do some live blogging/tweeting. For the benefit of those who don’t know who Groupon is: Groupon is one of the biggest group buying company in [...]