President Noynoy Aquino launched his new website today. It’s definitely a huge improvement over President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s website. To those who saw the former President’s website, it was a Web 1.5 standard dinosaur which was rarely mentioned or promoted. More than the design, one major thing that the Aquino administration is doing is building hype and generating attention for the Presidential website via PR blitzes. For that I believe that Communications Group deserves applause. The new website, according to the developers and the Communications Secretary, aims to serve as a feedback mechanism for the President. I just have a few comments on this that I’d like to share in this post.
I won’t talk about the design but I do have a lot of recommendations that I’ll e-mail the privately to the developers. What I’d like to talk about in this entry though is their “Feedback Mechanism” and how they’re tapping Social Media.
Feedback Gathering Mechanism
Right now the only way the website actually gathers feedback is through comments on the TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT section of the website. You put your name, e-mail, address, and then your comments. The entries are then posted on the page for everyone’s perusal. This is well and good but I think the administration and management of this system is a nightmare to deal with. Feedback is only as good as the reaction/response that it receives. I strongly suggest that the Communications Group make some form of filtering so that all comments are categorized properly. For example, you can break it down to: Messages for PNOY, Corruption Reports, Program Feedback (then divide by program), etc. That way the administrator can easily make reports for the consumption of the President and the related government executive. The filtering mechanism doesn’t have to be too advanced or complex. It can be a simple drop down menu.
Social Media Integration
Secretary Coloma in his announcement mentioned in that Social Media would figure a lot in the President’s website. I’m a bit confused with this particular statement. When they announced this I was looking forward to seeing customized interactive plug-ins similar to how US President Barack Obama and the White House are doing. Instead what’s there is just buttons with links to the official accounts of President Aquino on Twitter, Facebook, Friendster, Multiply, and Youtube. Here’s the announcement that I was talking about:
Secretary Herminio Coloma of the Presidential Communications Office for Operations told government-run radio station dzRB that the website www.president.gov.ph would carry social networking sites Facebook and Twitter.
A Facebook homepage in the presidential website will allow the public to air their sentiments online.
Another thing I don’t quite get it the existence of two official President Noynoy Aquino Facebook pages. The one currently linked in the new site goes to a newly created page which was different from the one used in the recent campaign which has more than 1.5M fans.
Anyway, all-in-all this is definitely a step in the right direction. However there still so many improvements that the Communications Team can implement which will make the website more effective. Same comment goes for their social media strategy. I hope this isn’t it already and we’ll see upgrades in the coming months.
2nd year high school po ako,gusto ko lang po mag suggest, pwede po ba ipag bawal mo po yung pag titinda ng sigarilyo sa buong bansa? alam ko po may kapangyarihan ka para gawin yun, alam mo naman po yung mga epekto ng sigarilyo diba? sana po gamitin mo po yung kapangyarihan mo bilang presidente ng sa mga bagay na karapat dapat pag tuunan ng pansin.
sana po wag ka na mag sigarilyo 
I just want to impart this news to all our concerned politicians most especially to our respected President. It is hurting us so much when we hear news like this and most especially if some of our colleagues from other foreign countries ask us about it. Would somebody do something about it?
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Ibig kong ipaabot sa ating kagalang galang na pangulo ang pagbati at paghanga sa kanyang pagmamahal sa wikang Filipino ang ating wikang pambansa. Makikita sa kanyang mga diskurso at talumpati ang isang pambansang pamunuan na magtatanggol sa wikang Filipino bilang isang matatag na wika hindi lamang ng pangaraw-araw na huntahan kundi isang wika ng intelektwal na talastasan at komunikasyon. Umaasa kami na bibigyan ito ng pansin ng lahat ng mga kinauukulan at gawing isang napakagandang halimbawa ng pagsuporta sa pagpapayabong ng wikang Filipino.
Sana ay maging simula ito ng mga hakbangin na magtataguyod sa pagkilala sa wikang Filipino bilang isang wika ng edukasyon kapantay ng wikang banyaga.
Ako ay isang Propesor sa Reproduksyon at Pisyolohiya, Klaster ng Agham Paghahayupan at Pagatasan, Kolehiyo ng Agrikultura, Unibersidad ng Pilipinas, Los Baños. Sa kasalukuyan, nagsisilbi rin ako bilang Direktor ng Sentro ng Wikang Filipino (SWF) dito sa unibersidad.
Miyembro ako ng Ehekutibong Konseho (Executive Council) ng Pambansang Komite sa Wika at Salin (National Committee for Language and Translation) ng Pambansang Komisyon para Kultura at mga Sining (National Commission for Culture and the Arts).
Mabuhay ka Pangulong Noy!
To: President Noy and all concerned Filipinos, I suggest that if cha-cha will be push thru, pls. consider this suggestions to lower government operating cost most especially the election cost, 1st reduced the numbers of elective officials, for national post, one (1) president, twelve (12) senators, one (1) house of representatives for every region, one (1) governor and eight (8) board members in every province, one mayor and eight (8) councilors in every cities or municipalities and one (1) brgy. chairman and eight (8) kagawads in every barangay units, eliminating all the vice position, successions in all vacant position will be by number of votes garnered during elections, elections of all elective positions are simultaneous. For national post, we only vote one president, for regional post, vote only one regional representative, for provincial post, vote only one provincial governor, for city or municipal post, vote only one mayor and on barangay post vote only one barangay chairman, so, all in all we only vote five, from national post down to barangay post. In this connection the question is who will be the senators, provincial board members, city and municipal councilors and barangay kagawads. For national post the candidate who garnered the highest number of votes will assume the office of the president then the twelve candidates that follows in accordance with the number of votes will be senators of the Republic, the same criteria will apply to other elective post mention except for regional representative, which is only one per region. All term of office to all elective office will be six years with prohibition provision to run in any elective position to the election that follow the election where they won.
Contributor: Moises P. Hambunan
Please publish my comment, I want to share it to all interested, for them to think about it, to perhaps generate more good ideas to improve our electoral system that may brings better governance making our country a better place to live in.
Thanks,
Moises P. Hambunan
mr president sana po tanggalin nyo na ung sk sa bawat barangay kasi po wala namang naitutulong ang mga ito tanggalin na rin ang budget nila sa halip, itulong na lang ang budget nila sa food feeding sa bawat barangay.
Dear Mr. President Noynoy,
bakit nga ba maraming tao ang gumgawa ng krimen sa panhaon ngayon? bakit pinababyaan ng government na lumala ang mga ito?sa dame ng kasu ng pag patay bakit di natin ibalik ang death penalty like sa ibang bansa.hindi naman ibig sabihin ng pag hahatol ng ganitong parusa sa mga taong nahuhuli na pumpatay, nagnanankaw, at iba pang krimen na talamak na sa panahon ngaun ay inilalagay na natin sa kamay ng tao ang batas. Hindi ba naisip ng government na this help lot of people na maibalik ang takot sa mga sarili. like sa mga bansang pinaiiral ang ganitong batas ang sinumang pumatay sa kapwa ay pinapatay din kapalit ng ginwa nitong krimen.please help the poor children na pinapatay at mga taong walang kamalaymalay.accident is ok but not by killing them
mr.president sa dame ng krimen di ba ito na ang panahon para maging mahigpit not literally the way na magiging dictator but in terms of policy and law..the issue today is not all about graft and corruption but maging kaso ng pag patay, at iba ibang pang krimen.. ndi ba dapat na ang mga taong maaari lamang mag possess ng baril ay yung mga tao lamang may katungkulan pang seguridad katulad ng pulis..i believe that the president will hear all our suggestion..pairalin ang puso ng buong sambayanang sinasakupan, maging matigas sa lahat ng mga patakarang ipatutupad..
Good day! Bkit po ang hirap kunuha ng nbi o magrenew dito sa robinson’s cainta junction? 7pm daw bigayan ng form ta derecho pila na til umaga saka lng bbigyan ng number saka pa lang halos mguumpisa pagkuha ng nbi.nagbabayad naman ang tao bakit ganito po kahirap kailangan pumila ng magdamag tas umaga pa makakakuha? Kaya nga po tyo may mga old templates e ska un renewal card e.pinahirapan nila taong bayan?
to president noy
can we defence our teritory from chinese invaders particularly in scarbourouh and calayaan group of islands and what is your good work for this very tremoundous issue what is your mission and also vission in the future for this big problem of our country please can we attack also to china
lusubin na natin ang china lakas nang loob nilang mang himasok sa teritoryo natin!!!
wasakin ang china