Transition between consultants, agencies, and IT heads is usually a big problem in companies and it looks like the Office of the President is no exemption. President Noynoy Aquino has been in office for a few days now and it looks like the previous administration wasn’t able to properly turn over all the communication channels to them properly. Ellen Tordesillas wrote on her blog about how the official website of the President (www.op.gov.ph) hasn’t been updated with President Aquino and still had the images of former President and now Congresswoman Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. What makes matter worst is that they can’t change the site because the person who has the password to the domain/hosting is “out of the country”. Since they can’t contact the person, they just shut down the site. You can’t access it right now if you go to the URL that I gave above. So how big is the effect of this problem? Based on the Google Keyword tool, “Noynoy Aquino” was searched globally more than 200,000 times in the last 30 days. “President Philippines” was searched more than 60,000 times.
Whoever is in charge of Aquino’s communications team should come up with a solution to this quickly. Since it is the Office of the President, I’m pretty sure they can totally rush a website and come up with something acceptable in just a day. At worst they can have a splash page which says that the new and revised site will go up in a few days. Shutting it down completely is a waste.
Also, let me just say that it’s very unprofessional of whoever had the access codes for this site to not leave it with the new administration. It’s a courtesy that you should have extended to the new President and I believe that you did the country a great disservice.
Note: 100araw.com also reported this on their blog as early as July 1, 2010.
I think the new media people of Noynoy is incompetent. If they can shut down the site, they can easily replace the site as well. I think they just don’t have a new website to replace it with.
I think the solution is simple: contact the domain registrar, have the .gov.ph domain pointed to another web host. Done in 12 hours.
I’m sure the yellow camp have paid people to “troll out” on Gibo Teodoro’s fan page.
yan ang napala ng isang hambog na presidente. We all heard about the offer of a proper turn over. pero hambog eh. ayaw ng turn over. It should not happen kung may turn over na nang yari. so now that’s another money from the tax payers! Kakainis!