New Media Philippines

I’ve been thinking about writing this article for the past few days. As most of you know, the Philippines has recently been struck hard by the Ondoy storm. Various parts of the country now are in ruins because of the devastating force of the storm. In fact, I have a lot of friends who were [...]

Remember what HR Expert Sonnie Santos said in his interview about Personal Branding? One of his key points was to make use of LinkedIn, a social network that’s mostly used by corporate headhunters and recruiters. I just wanted to share with everyone that LinkedIn is really effective, and I recently got several inquiries. Note that [...]

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 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 [...]

Mike Abundo plurked a very interesting article from the New York Times website. The gist of the article is that global web companies are thinking of restricting access or lowering service standards for people who access their websites in developing countries. The problem is that the cost of operating and delivering the services is not [...]

I’ve been putting a lot of thought on how bloggers and marketers can both tap Social Media (Networks, Microblogging, etc.) to drive more readers to their sites. Initially, I was able to list more than 15 ways on how to do this but for now I’ll zero in on 3 methods otherwise I’ll end up [...]

I’ve been talking about Personal Branding and Value Blogging but now I would like to stop with the theory and start showing you examples. I’ve had the chance to meet several wonderful people who I believe personify personal branding.These individuals were also gracious enough to allow me to interview them on video and I’ll be [...]

The headlines for today’s Inquirer is about how the number of seats for Party List representatives in Congress will be increased to 55 for the upcoming 2010 elections. This made me think a long while, which led me to do some number crunching and research. In the 2007 Party List elections, all you needed was [...]