October 23, 2010
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Posted by: Carlo Ople
closeAuthor: Carlo Ople
Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (895)
Gartner Inc., an information technology intelligence company, recently said that their studies show that the Philippines is leading in the adoption of global social media sites like Facebook and Twitter in Asia. This confirms the study recently released by ComScore as well which ranked the Philippines as one of the top social media hubs in [...]
October 15, 2010
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (895)
We recently did a very successful social media campaign for a client who was trying to get customers for a particular educational type of activity. Since their budget was limited we tried to put it on digital vectors that would bring maximum impact at the least possible amount of cost. Rather than scattering the budget [...]
August 26, 2010
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (895)
After a deluge of negative comments flooded President Noynoy Aquino’s Facebook Page, the Communications Team decided to temporarily censor the Page by removing the commenting feature on the page. Instead of helping though this resulted in a media backlash with several local and international media outfits reporting the incident in a negative way. This prompted [...]
August 12, 2010
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (895)
The latest numbers are out and the Philippines climbed up one spot on the top countries using Facebook, overtaking Canada. Based on the count, we now have 15.9M registered users. We’re 1M short of Italy and I have a strong feeling that we’ll be able to get to number 6 in a few months’ time. [...]
July 13, 2010
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (895)
The latest comScore study is out and the latest data for May is staggering. Facebook is the top website that Filipinos visited in May 2010. What’s really surprising though is that according to the study 93% of all online users in the country logged in the site at least once for May, making the Philippines [...]
July 8, 2010
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (895)
A very interesting article came out on GMA News yesterday. The news bit said that President Noynoy Aquino and Senator Manny Villar were number 3 and 5 respectively in the list of politicians in Facebook that had the most number of “likes”. Number 1 in the list was US President Obama followed by former Alaska [...]
June 29, 2010
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (895)
An article on Mashable today said that Facebook is fast becoming a source of evidence for legal matters such as divorce. Allow me to quote an excerpt from the article: Consider, for example, the mom who lost custody of her kids because she was playing FarmVille or World of Warcraft when she claimed to be [...]
June 15, 2010
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (895)
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently complained on his profile about the iPhone 3GS (I don’t know why he couldn’t wait for the iPhone 4 though). In his status update, Zuckerberg said that “I got four chargers so I can keep it charged everywhere I go and a land line so I can actually make phone [...]
June 14, 2010
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (895)
An article on Mashable says that adding the Facebook “Like” social plug-in increased visitors by as much as 50% for bloggers on Typepad. These plug-ins are definitely useful and they can drive additional eyeballs to your site but it’s not as much as the plug-in than the actual content. Some naysayers are already hitting the [...]
May 15, 2010
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (895)
Over the past few days I’ve been getting tagged in an annoying post with a video of a girl doing something weird on Facebook. At first I thought it was just a funny video spreading but apparently it’s a virus. I don’t know what the trigger is yet but once you get infected you post [...]
April 20, 2010
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (895)
Remember the article last March 31 that said that Facebook *might* replace the fans of Official Pages and change it to “likes”? Well, it finally happened. I was checking several official pages of candidates and brands this morning and I no longer saw fans but only people who “liked” the product, person, or whatever. Here’s [...]
April 6, 2010
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (895)
A couple of months ago Facebook released a feature called vanity URLs. They gave us the ability to customize the URLs of our profiles. Instead of facebook.com/214010359, to would be able to change it to facebook.com/wauks. You can also do this for your Facebook Official Profiles. Here’s a quick 2-step guide on how to change [...]
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