New Media Philippines

The country’s leading organization for PR professionals, the Public Relations Society of the Philippines (PRSP), partnered with the Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines (IMMAP), Ateneo de Manila AJWCC, and Blue Blade Technology for the Digital PR Certification Program. I’ve been helping them develop the modules and the courses for this so I [...]

I wasn’t actually expecting this but it looks like the strong opposition showed during the public hearing of the controversial “Broadband Cap” issue paid off! The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) junked the section in their original draft memorandum order allowing companies to limit the data download of customers. In an even better move, the NTC [...]

Web Safety for Parents is an advocacy group led by Sonnie Santos. I joined him in this cause because I felt that it was a great way to reach out and help families who have problems with internet and gaming addiction. Web Safety for Parents did 10 workshops last year and it even won in [...]

(The following is the transcript of the speech I gave earlier tonight at the Pinoy Expat-OFW Blog Awards event held at Teatrino, Promenade, Greenhills San Juan City. Thank you to the organizers and sponsors who made it an awesome event!) Ladies and gentlemen, good evening. Before anything else I would like to acknowledge the organizers [...]

There were simply no words that could describe how I felt when I opened my phone while on my way home from the Philippine Blog Awards last night. I had to leave early because of another event that I promised I would attend. I knew there was a raffle but I’ve always had lousy luck [...]

Last night I was at the Philippine Blog Awards 2010 held at the Carlos Romulo Theater in RCBC Plaza, Makati City. It was great connecting with old blogger friends that I haven’t seen in a while. It was great bumping into Tonyo, Maro, Sonnie, Mike, Vince, Flaircandy, Pocholo, PGB, Juned, Undersecretary Manolo Quezon, Fitz, Jayvee, [...]

I’m happy to let everyone know that New Media Philippines is officially a finalist in the Philippine Blog Awards 2010 under the Best Business Blog Category. We’d just like to take this opportunity to just say thanks to all of our readers who have supported us for the past year. It’s been an amazing journey [...]

Last year I gave a talk during the e-Commerce 2009 Summit which was organized by one of my mentors, Janette Toral. I was still working for Friendster then as their Digital Marketing Manager. In my session, I shared my thoughts on how to make self-advertising platforms work. Janette recently uploaded the video of the talk [...]

Personal Branding has played a key role in my development as a professional and entrepreneur. This coming Saturday, September 25, 2010, I’ll be sharing the stage with my good friend J. Randell Tiongson and we will be sharing practical tips and techniques on Personal Branding. The event will be held at the Greenhills Victory Center [...]

The Philippine Blog Awards is one of the most prestigious blog award giving bodies in the country. They’ve been doing this for 4 years now and the live event keeps on getting better and better as the years go by. Anyway, the Philippine Blog Awards 2010 will start accepting nominations on September 12. They have [...]

I’ll be giving a short 15-minute talk on the topic of “New Media, Youth Perception and Reaction” this Saturday, September 11, 2010, at the National Public Relations Student Congress organized by the Public Relations Society of the Philippines (PRSP). This will be a much welcome break from talks about how to utilize social media for [...]

As of this writing, there’s a Facebook Page entitled “Hongkong, Our apology for what happened” which has 15,499 likes. The wall is already filled up with mixed apologies from Filipinos in Tagalog and English. There are several HK nationals who are also commenting and replying to some of the posts. The page description under the [...]

I was invited by Jobstreet to their Career Congress 2010 which will be held this coming July 30, 2010. I’ll be part of a panel of “experts” who will talk about general skills needed for people who want to take up a career in digital marketing, blogging, and consultancy work. I’m definitely excited to share [...]

After months of preparation, the first Internet & Social Media Marketing Program by Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc. is done. The fully booked class was held last July 9, 2010, at the Oakwood Hotel in Ortigas (btw they have really good food). To the participants, thank you for the awesome feedback! Rest assured we will continue [...]

Catalyst Interactive Marketing, my consultancy company, staged our first Internet & Social Media Marketing Program for Filipino Entrepreneurs and Marketers last Friday, July 9, 2010 at the Oakwood Hotel in Ortigas. I’ll write a more detailed summary article tomorrow afternoon. For now let me share with everyone some photos of the event! Photos by my [...]

Personal Finance guru Randell Tiongson is having a third run of his successful No Nonsense Finance Seminar this coming July 10, 2010. For a small investment of P1,300, you’ll get to learn the rudiments of investing as well as having the proper mindset when it comes to growing your personal wealth. The seminar will be [...]

My good friend and fellow blogger Sonnie Santos approached me a few weeks ago and asked me if I can give a talk about web safety for kids (specifically for online gaming) for an event he was organizing. The goal of the event was to orient parents about the potential dangers of the web for [...]

First let me just thank everyone for the overwhelming response that we received for the Internet and Social Media Program for Filipino Entrepreneurs and Marketers that we’re organizing for July 9, 2010. Actually almost all the slots have already been reserved/booked. We only have around less than 10 slots available. To those interested, please do [...]

Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc. presents the first Internet and Social Media Marketing Program for Filipino Marketers and Entrepreneurs! This is a comprehensive whole day seminar packaged with online consultation services. The seminar topics will focus on the major channels of internet and social media marketing such as Facebook, Friendster, Twitter, Online Advertising, Blog Marketing, and [...]

I’ll be one of the faculty members for the 2-week course of the Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines’ (IMMAP) Digital Marketing Diploma Program on Virtual Community Marketing. This is actually an online course which kicks off with a face-to-face talk tomorrow at the Ateneo CCE (Rockwell Campus). My talk is at 11:05AM-12:00PM [...]