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 [...]
Foursquare is a relatively small community here in Philippines compared to Facebook and Twitter but it’s already getting some love from local companies via Foursquare specials. I was checking-in Vmall a few days ago and I was alerted to at least 5 specials nearby. This also popped up when I was in Fort Bonifacio. It [...]
Twitter updated their site recently which now lets users localize the top trending topics. New countries were added and one of them is none other than the Philippines! This update will help marketers and analysts find out what’s being talked about on Twitter locally. To adjust your settings just go to your Twitter homepage and [...]
According to the latest study by ComScore, the Philippines is the number 1 country in the world when it comes to Facebook Penetration. Before anything let me explain what “Facebook Penetration” means. It’s the total number of Filipino Facebook accounts compared to the total number of Internet Users in the Philippines. Also note that this [...]
Peter Juan shared this video on Facebook. Hilarious stuff. Watch the video first before reading my comments below. I think the biggest problem the marketing industry faces right now when it comes to the world of social media and digital marketing is education. Managers and CEO’s just hire whoever presents to them first without really [...]
I was invited to a blogger “event” by Virtusio Public Relations (PR Firm of Research In Motion/BlackBerry in the PH) that featured the BlackBerry PlayBook. I was expecting your usual tech event in a hotel with several demo units, a product presentation, and photo opts. However it was nothing like that and I have to [...]
People often think that the social media industry isn’t stressful and that it’s all fun because you get to handle social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. It’s completely the opposite. Regardless if you like it or not social networking sites become extensions of customer support because it’s a communication channel between you and your [...]
People have a tendency of saying “everyone on social media says…”. It’s funny because if you really think about it how can one say that indeed everyone is saying one thing? WIthout the proper monitoring and analytics in place everything is just conjecture and you might end up making wrong decisions because you’re misinformed. This [...]
I’m proud of how our news portal, InterAksyon, has been doing lately. I’m really happy that the people running the show know and understand the nature of the web and social media. One of the biggest mistakes that news portals make is that they just try to put the entire newspaper on a website. The [...]
The surge of easy-to-use photo, text, and video editing software and applications gives the phrase “out of context” more relevance and meaning to brands, especially public figures. How many times have we seen demeaning videos, photos, and quotes from celebrities and their primary defense is that the material released to the public was edited? Our [...]
I’m here right now at UCC in Fort Bonifacio waiting for my next meeting and I decided to do a quick blog entry using the iPad. The ability to blog on a portable machine like a tablet was the reason why I decided to get the first generation iPad last year. However I still end [...]
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is one of the biggest companies in the world. That’s why each time they do something it’s interesting to monitor and analyze because it’s the result of millions of dollars of research. They recently changed their website in time for Wrestlemania 27. Their old site used to have a lot of [...]
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 [...]
Buffer is a new way to schedule your tweets. This is a very useful app and I highly recommend it. To start just head on over to the Buffer website and then sign-up with your e-mail address and preferred password. You can then install the Buffer app on your Chrome browser so that it will [...]
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 [...]
After getting a lot of complaints from users who didn’t know what they were getting into when they converted their personal profiles to official pages, Facebook decided to finally just take down the tool before more people “accidentally” used it. If you try accessing the URL of the original page it just shows the default [...]
You can now convert your personal Facebook profiles into Official Pages (Public Figure, Brand, Business, etc). Facebook rolled this out a few days ago and being the eager beaver that I am, I converted my page since I already was near the 5,000 friend limit. However it looks like I will end up regretting my [...]
Digitel’s parent company, JG Summit Holdings, disclosed yesterday to the PSE that they’re going to give up 51.55% in Digitel to PLDT. The deal will be share-swap and JG Summit Holdings will acquire 12.8% in PLDT shares. Total equity value of the entire transaction a whopping P74.1 Billion. This is definitely one of the most [...]
Facebook Questions is a new feature rolled out by Facebook. Users can post a question on their profile and all those who answer in their network will display their answers on their respective networks as well making this a potent recommendation engine. As of today it’s currently not yet activated on all Facebook Official Pages [...]
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