New Media Philippines

One of the most important lessons in life that is rarely taught in school is personal finance. I only learned how to manage my money a few years after I graduated. Victory Greenhills in cooperation with the Registered Financial Planners Institute is having a seminar this coming May 13-14 called BLUE CHIP: Personal Finance for [...]

Last Friday morning I was invited to guest on Atty. Mike Templo’s show on ABS-CBN ANC, Crossing Borders. We talked about the different ways a person can make money online through blogging, online freelancing, and personal branding. It was a great experience to be on his show since most of the viewers were OFWs or [...]

I recently gave a short talk to PR professionals during the seminar hosted by the International PR Association and the Public Relations Society of the Philippines. The thrust of the talk was to just get them in on the idea that social media is here and it will continue to grow at an exponential rate. [...]

I gave a talk yesterday (Thursday) to PR executives in the “MAKING PR WORK FOR YOUR BUSINESS” seminar which was hosted by the International PR Association (IPRA) and the Public Relations Society of the Philippines (PRSP). The topic was Social Media for PR but I’ll talk about that in a separate entry. For this article [...]

Let me just plug this upcoming seminar “All About Money: Living the Life You Can Afford”. The tickets just cost P400 and you’ll be treated to a life-changing session with Chinkee Tan, Cito Beltran, and Randell Tiongson. Event will be this Saturday, 9AM – 1PM at the Victory Ortigas Center in Robinson’s Galleria. For inquiries, [...]

I’ll be giving a talk about how to use social media for PR on Thursday, April 22, 2010, at the IPRA and PRSP event “MAKE PR WORK FOR YOUR BUSINESS”. It will be held at the SMX Convention Center. The main objective of the seminar is to share insights and learnings on why PR is [...]

One of the talks that I enjoyed and appreciated the most last iBlog 6 was Marhgil Macuha‘s session on Search Engine Optimization. By the way, he recently just quit his job from a fortune 500 company because he’s earning enough already from blogging to make it a full time endeavor (kudos to you bro!). In [...]

iBlog 6 is officially over and before anything let me just give a shout out to Janette Toral and the organizers for pulling off what I consider one of the most educational Blog Marketing events for both bloggers and business owners. I heard from a lot of people that attended that they consider iBlog 6 [...]

I was invited to give a seminar for the production team of ABS-CBN’s news channel, ANC. It was held last Saturday morning and we tackled the topics of Personal Branding and Social Media for Journalists. Honestly I was a bit intimidated at the start of the presentation since it was such a surreal experience giving [...]

I’ll be giving two 45-minute talks this coming Saturday, April 10, at the Make Money 2.0 event which will be held at Victory Center, Promenade, Greenhills. The first talk will be about how to build your personal brand through social media. I’ll be discussing how the rules have totally changed and that you need to [...]

We’re holding another Make Money 2.0 event this coming April 10, 2010, from 2PM – 6:30PM. The event will teach you proven and various ways on how you can make money through the internet. Expect one educational and fun afternoon as we give an overview and various case studies on blogging, e-commerce, personal branding, and [...]

I was invited to give a 45-minute talk on how to make money with blogging during the recent Blog World Philippines 2010 conference at Crossroads 77, QC. I was initially expecting around 500 participants but I was really surprised when I saw that the entire auditorium was filled to the brim! According to the organizers, [...]

I’ll be giving a talk this Saturday, February 20, 2010, at the Ateneo De Manila for AISEC’s Empowering Youth Entrepreneurship Seminar 2010. As most of you know I studied for 16 years in the Ateneo so I always make it a point to accept any speaking engagements that I get from that school. It’s always [...]

To all bloggers and businesses interested in blog marketing: make sure you sign-up and register for the upcoming iBlog 6 this coming April 16-17. It’s totally for free so all you have to do is to actually head on over to their site and fill out the online form to reserve your slot. You might [...]

The first ever Make Money 2.0 seminar is already this coming Saturday! To those who still want to participate, we still have slots open so just make a reservation via phone call to Jamie Inocian at 0916 6037569. You can pay the normal rate at the event venue but you need to make a call [...]

So did that title catch your attention? Hahaha! It sure did get mine when I heard it from Senator Dick Gordon during the presidential debate held at DLSU. In one of his answers, Gordon explained that one of his plans was to give away FREE Kindles to all public school students. Basically he wanted to [...]

I was invited by Ms. Katrina Lim to give a talk on internet marketing opportunities for the Filipino youth at St. Scholastica in Manila last week. I usually give talks to schools because one of my passions in life is to share knowledge with the youth and to inspire them to be more aggressive in [...]

Top Filipino internet mavens reveal their secrets in how they make money online in the upcoming Make Money 2.0 seminar scheduled on February 13, 2010 at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Ortigas. This is a no nonsense seminar which really focuses on sharing effective and proven ways on how you can improve your monthly revenues [...]

Hi everyone! I’m currently organizing a special event this coming February. It’s basically a seminar which will feature various speakers who are experts in making real money online. Topics to be covered will be effective and proven ways to truly (and when I mean truly not the $100 from adsense every 3 months kind) monetize [...]

The Department of Health official website was hacked twice in December. This is a strong signal for the Philippine government to seriously consider upgrading their websites. And I’m not just talking about security, but the over-all quality. Most of the government websites literally look like crap and these needs to be fixed. We have so [...]