New Media Philippines

Last Tuesday night we had an exclusive dinner party for Filipino bloggers at the National Sports Grill restaurant in Greenbelt 3. During the event, Friendster Vice President and Global Head for Brand Experience, Ben Dunn, gave everyone a sneak peek at the new Friendster which is set to launch soon. It was good to see [...]

Other than giving a talk during the recently concluded DigitalFilipino E-Commerce Summit 2009, I also received and award for the 2009 DigitalFilipino Professional Blog! New Media Philippines won and feel very honored to have been recognized in such a big event. They gave all the speakers around 5 minutes to give a short talk on [...]

I represented Friendster in the recently concluded DigitalFilipino E-Commerce Summit 2009 and gave a short 15 minute presentation on how to maximize self-service advertising platforms. However, instead of doing an instructional approach, I focused more on important insights that marketers can apply when they want to get into online advertising. I had a lot of [...]

I’ll be speaking on the topic of “Make Self-Service Advertising Platform Work for You” in the upcoming DigitalFilipino E-Commerce Summit 2009. The event will be at the Hotel Intercontinental this coming November 12-13. I’ll be giving a short talk on the second day at around 11:45. The talk will focus more on how you can [...]

Paul Pena, one of my contacts in Facebook, mentioned a term that I won’t forget. We were discussing Personal Branding when he said “You 2.0“. It pretty much sums up what personal branding is in terms of the online space and I wanted to tackle that a bit in this post. One of the questions [...]

I’ll be giving a talk in the upcoming 17th Kapihang Entre Pinoy: Online Marketing event this coming November 14, 2009. The event will be held at the Citimotors Auditorium (Pasong Tamo corner Don Bosco, Makati) and it will be from 9:00AM until 5:00PM. The ticket for the event is only P350 so I strongly suggest [...]

Personal Finance Coach Randell Tiongson is having another run of his successful “No Nonsense Personal Finance” seminar this coming November 7, 2009. I’ve heard Randell speak several times already and he’s a shining example of an entertaining and content-driven speaker. You won’t get bored and you’ll learn new stuff! He’s actually a rare breed these [...]

It’s a bit of a late notice but I got invited to give a 30 minute talk followed by a 15 minute Q&A for an event tomorrow hosted by the Public Relations Society of the Philippines. The event is entitled “A Whole New World of Digital PR” and it will be held at the Intercon [...]

I got invited by fellow blogger and personal branding expert Sonnie Santos to be a panelist in the upcoming 3rd HR Philippines National Convention: HR 2.0 which will be held at the SMX Convention Center on October 21-22, 2009. I’ll be onstage during the second day when a panel composed of bloggers and internet marketers [...]

I was invited over the weekend to give a talk on “E-Trepreneurship” at the EARIST Cavite Campus. They initially asked me to talk for three hours on how the internet can make them globally competitive. Bulk of the presentation went there but I also made it a point to share with them some tips and [...]

SMART Bro’s latest event and promotion really caught me by surprise. They had an event called SMART Bro B Free Day at the Mega Tent along Meralco Avenue. In the event, they gave away 10,000 free units of the UAAP/NCAA designed SMART Bro USB Plug-it modems to students. I was invited by Havoc Digital and [...]

Thanks to Myra for sending me a couple of photos of the recently concluded Go Negosyo Youth Summit which was held at the SMX Convention Center. I also took the liberty of reposting several pictures from the Go Negosyo Multiply account for everyone’s viewing pleasure. Thank you Lord for giving me the opportunity to share [...]

Last Friday I was invited by Go Negosyo to talk about Online and Viral Marketing for their Youth Summit event held at the SMX Convention Center. Initially I worked on delivering a presentation for SME’s and business owners. I worked on a deck called “No BS Filipino Digital Marketing” for several days. However on the [...]

Last September 8-9 we ran the first Certified E-Marketing Consultants (CeMC) course at the PSE in Ortigas. We had a good turnout of students despite the limited time we had to promote and push the program. The two day course tackled the fundamentals of digital marketing as well as advanced principles for e-commerce such as [...]

Personal finance coach and educator Randell Tiongson is having a seminar called “No Nonsense Finance Seminar: How to Invest for the Future“. I’ve listened to Randell give talks before and let me be one of the first bloggers to say that he’s one of the best in what he does. He really knows what he’s [...]

I got an invitation from Singapore to have a coffee session with Mobile Marketing Association President Mike Wehrs during his brief stay here in the Philippines. He was the keynote speaker and guest of honor in the recent Internet and Mobile Marketing Summit which was hosted by the IMMAP. I was very interested in this [...]

I was recently invited to be a resource person and speaker for the upcoming Go Negosyo Youth Summit which is scheduled on September 11, 2009. The event will be held in SMX Convention Center. I’d like to invite everyone to drop by since the event is for free and anyone can just join in and [...]

Coming fresh from a coffee session with Senator Manny Villar, I wasn’t expecting to be part of another political blogging event anytime soon. However, I was able to get an invite to another event for another potential contender for the 2010 elections. This time it was the youngest presidential aspirant – Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero. [...]

Friendster is the biggest social network in the Philippines. It was one of the firsts to enter the country so it was natural for a lot of online Filipinos to get into it. According to several studies, bulk of the population of Friendster actually comes from here. With that said, it makes sense for them [...]

Last Saturday, Janette Toral announced the winners of her Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs Writing Project. I really wanted to drop by the event to meet and network with other bloggers but I wasn’t able to due to emergency reasons. Let me just take this opportunity to thank Janette for her tireless work in promoting [...]