I organized a blog event for the Blas F. Ople Policy Center last night and I had the chance to get a quick interview with Ms. Janette Toral about the recently concluded iBlog5. Since we were already there, I also asked about her plans for iBlog6 as well as her new project, the Top 10 [...]
In the recently concluded iBlog5, the 4 Types of Bloggers post that I made several weeks ago was cited by speakers and by the attendees asking questions. However, I think it got the most attention during the talk of the last speaker, Anton Diaz from Our Awesome Planet. In his talk, Anton explained that he [...]
Though I was late, I was still able to make it to the iBlog 5 Saturday afternoon. I feel bad that I missed all the speakers in the morning but at least I was able to hear almost everyone during the afternoon sessions. First things first though, let me give a shout out to the [...]
I had the chance to visit Senator Antonio Trillanes in Camp Crame a few days ago. We talked a lot about different topics but mostly on the current political landscape. I know a lot of people have branded Senator Trillanes negatively due to his stint at the Manila Peninsula, but after meeting him face-to-face and [...]
I’m about to leave a coffee shop in Tomas Morato to head over to UP Diliman for iBlog5. I’m actually already late since it started around 8AM today. Had to meet a client first. Anyway, if you’re there, please do say hi. I’d love to meet new people. Cheers!
In the past few weeks, I’ve been helping out a few friends start their own personal blogs. I’ve keep on repeating the same advice on how to make money with blogging so I’ve decided to just write a post that sums up everything I know about how to monetize your blog. By no means are [...]
Ako Mismo Endorser Maxene Magalona spoke out on Facebook to defend the project after Jaime Garchitorena’s e-mail finally reached her when she read about it on Multiply. Initially, I was a bit offended with her note since it basically said that the people against the campaign made the country look bad. I agree with Juned’s [...]
After several days of speculation, we finally have someone who’s taking ownership of the Ako Mismo Campaign. DDB, one of the leading advertising agencies in the Philippines, created a new section in the Ako Mismo website – “Who is behind Ako Mismo?” and they’ve also updated the FAQ section. Here they answer most of the [...]
The Blas F. Ople Policy Center, which is led by former Labor Undersecretary Susan “Toots” Ople, produced this video which aims to warn existing and soon-to-be OFWs about the dangers of dealing with Illegal Recruiters. The video has some examples of our countrymen who were taken advantage of, abused, and abandoned. Please feel free to [...]
SMART Communications, the biggest mobile network and the company being tagged as the primary drivers of the Ako Mismo Campaign, recently said that they had nothing to do with the said project. In an interview with Inquirer.net, they plainly denied that they were the owners and they had plans of selling the potential database that [...]
A lot of bloggers have been talking about the implications of the Ako Mismo Campaign which is being funded by the PLDT-SMART Foundation. Accusations have already been hurled left and right against it but it looks like it’s still growing. As of this writing, they’ve already reached more than 40,000 registrations. I went through most [...]
Tonyo Cruz left a very interesting comment at my previous post which pretty much sums up all the doubts raised by a lot of many people with the Ako Mismo Campaign. The concept of the campaign is really inspiring, and I’m sure that a lot of you will agree that this has a lot of [...]
A new TVC was recently launched which had a bunch of Filipino superstar celebrities which include (not limited to): Charice Pempengco, Arnel Pineda, Angel Locsin, Lucky Manzano, Edu Manzano and Chris Tiu. The campaign was called “AKO MISMO” and it basically talks about encouraging the viewers to play a more active role in nation building [...]
While millions of Filipinos trooped to malls, theaters, restaurant bars, and government sponsored telecasts, others decided to just google to watch the recently concluded Pacquiao – Hatton match. Since I woke up pretty late this morning, I wasn’t able to go to any of the places that were showing it live. I just typed in [...]
A few months ago, I was invited to a forum hosted by the Liberal Party. We had Jo Hansen, US President Obama’s campaign consultant, talk about how Obama won the election. There were a lot of topics covered and it would be one hell of a lengthy post to write everything in just one go. [...]
I had the honor of being invited to ANC’s Media In Focus, hosted by Che Che Lazaro, to talk about Social Media. My co-guest was the Digital Marketing Head of ABS CBN Interactive, Ms. Maria Java. Initially I was very nervous, since this was my first formal TV guesting. I’ve been interviewed before in press [...]
One of my favorite bloggers has decided to say goodbye. Salve Duplito from Inquirer.Net’s Money Smarts just posted that she’s leaving the blog. I’m not yet sure if they’ll actually turn to blog offline or they’ll put a new editor in charge. Let me just take this opportunity to salute Salve for the posts written [...]
I’m not all that new to the blogging, but I’ve never been active in the local community. It’s only now that I get to meet the “giants” of the local blogosphere. When I first started my blog around 3 years ago, Waukster Online, my only goal then was to serve quality content to my readers [...]
I was very fortunate to be accepted as one of the contributing writers for Inquirer.Net’s Blog Addicts. Hopefully I’ll be able to submit an article at least two-three times per month about tips on blogging and digital marketing. The first article is already up – What type of blogger are you? This is the edited [...]
I make it a point every week to have one post that just talks about other articles written by local bloggers in the Philippines. It’s a way of giving “link love” as well as providing my readers with quality content about New Media from a different perspective other than this writer. For this week, I [...]
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