Together with colleague Delwin Keasberry, a.k.a. @BruneiTweet and the man behind Projek Brunei, we led a master class with the same title at the ASEAN100 Leadership Forum on Sept. 29, 2011 at the Shangrila Hotel in Makati City, Philippines.
Here is the presentation I shared at the master class:
How is the Philippines ranking in social networking on a global scale?
Well, we Filipinos are way up in terms of number of users and how we use Facebook.
What better way to illustrate this than through an infographic,
Today’s newspapers appear to have one thing on common: They are all happy for newly-wed couple Liberal Party vice presidential candidate Sen. Mar Roxas II and ABS-CBN chief correspondent Korina Sanchez.
Photos from yesterday’s wedding rites dominate most today’s frontpages:
Internet use in the Philippines is growing with more and more Filipino using the internet for various purposes.
This post, which I would update regularly, seeks to make available reference materials, studies, researches on the Philippine use of the internet.
Formerly known as simply “Nicole”, the Filipino woman who charged a US Marine with rape and who won a conviction in a local court, has fled to the US and recanted her testimony.
Here is the full text of affidavit:
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
Annex A
CITY OF MAKATII, SUZETTE S. NICOLAS, of legal age. Filipino, a resident of Zamboanga City, after being duly sworn in accordance with law, hereby depose and state:
1. I am a Bachelor of Science graduate, major in Management Accounting, of the Ateneo de Davao University. Soon after my graduation, I took up nursing in 2004 at the Ateneo de Zamboanga City and at the same time assisted in managing our family owned canteen located inside the military base of the Southern Command. My mother was a civilian supervisor of the Philippine Navy for 25 years while my deceased father was a Philippine Navy Officer.
Journalists and academicians recently launched a website, a virtual online resource center, on Muslim Mindanao.
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This is good news for journalists and all those who wish to read about and understand this area and people of our country.
Read about it in this news release I am republishing here:
While countries worldwide are taking “extraordinary” and “bold” steps to confront the global economic crisis and the recession that grips the biggest economies, President Arroyo and Congress have agreed to resort merely on enacting a national budget for 2009 that did not consider the meltdown.
What’s in store for the Philippines in the next few months? Let’s see from an economic briefing provided by Albay Gov. Joey Salceda to President Arroyo. The briefing paper and presentation are dated Nov. 12, 2008, and I’m publishing both documents here so anyone interested may take a look and analyze them.
One thing that became a huge plus factor for Barack Obama’s campaign was technology.
Quezon City-based Collective Technologies Initiatives, or Collective Tech, offers non-profits, small and medium enterprises, learning institutions and other organizations the services needed to go, stay and better serve the public online.
They’ve debated three times, exchanged barbs many times over and the race is coming to a close.
But Barack Obama and John McCain also dueled on the dance floor, according to this video.
Barack Obama trounced McCain anew with a 4 to 1 margin in a new Gallup poll covering 70 countries that asked who they prefer to be elected as the next US president.
In a surprising twist, more Filipinos chose McCain over Obama.
On Blog Action Day regarding poverty, forbes.com released its list of the top 40 richest Filipinos, headed by mall mogul Henry Sy with a net worth of $3.1 billion.
Lucio Tan is second in the list with $1.5 billion. Jaime Zobel de Ayala, last year’s richest, dropped to third place with $1.2 billion.
The total net worth of the Philippines 20 richest people is $12.670 billion or a whooping P594 billion!
The sobering news is a new United Nations report also came out the next day, pointing to a very problematic occurrence — income inequality is worsening worldwide, including the Philippines.
Less than a month before the US presidential elections, Barack Obama is trouncing John McCain among Asian-Americans, including Filipino migrants and others with Filipino ancestry.
You thought you can only buy legit iPhone 3Gs from Apple’s partner carriers like Globe?
Think again, because Apple Hong Kong has started selling the wonder in its website.
US President George W. Bush spoke to Americans today and announced he has invited fellow Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama to an urgent meeting on the US economic crisis.
Bush said that the bailout of failing Wall Street companies may cost taxpayers about US$700 billion (estimated P31.8 trillion).
Graphic artists are excited over the release of Adobe’s Creative Suite 4.
A blog post at ZDNet said that:
Adobe will offer numerous flavors of CS4 including editions for Design, Web, Production Premium and Master Collection. Individually, Adobe rolled out the latest editions of Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash Professional and Dreamweaver among others.
This is definitely good news for students of pre-historic arts and culture.
The seizure and recovery of these artifacts will add to existing body of evidence on the existence of developed cultures in pre-colonial southern Philippines.
Ever wondered just how much a jeepney driver earns and how long he has to work to earn a living?
Palm diehards here and abroad can now expand their precious handhelds just like the rest, thanks to the release of an SDHC driver.
Filipinos are at the top of the world in terms of social networking and up there too in terms of blogging!
This is no wonder since Pinoy culture is strong on networking:
Filipino Netizens among most sociable
By Riza T. Olchondra
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 21:29:00 09/19/2008MANILA, Philippines — You think that collectively sending about one billion text messages daily is enough for Filipinos to stay in touch? Apparently not.
In the third edition of Universal McCann’s study on social media, the Philippines had the social networking highest penetration among Internet users (83.1 percent) compared with the global average of 57.5 percent.
Nakakaaliw — promise!
