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Sunday, November 17, 2013

Colors of Hope and Unity


The Philippine flag's lively colors and spirit magnified by the show of support of the Empire State Building and Houston City Hall to the survivors of super typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda. To all those who are involved in the relief operations, keep the donations coming. God bless all of you and thank you.



Photos of the Empire State Building and Houston City Hall from posts in Instagram and Facebook.


Monday, February 6, 2012

BusinessWorld Student Forum Again in UST


BusinessWorld Student Forum will once again be at my Alma Mater to bring students another round of the learning event.




On February 15, join us at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Faculty of Civil Law Auditorium for an afternoon of talks on leadership and career success with "Thomasians Making the Lead" from 2 to 5 pm. In coordination with the Office for Student Affairs, the forum will feature speakers who are experts on leadership -- Mr. Alvin Samson, managing director of Cornerstone Consultancy, will talk about Priorities of a Leader while Mr. Ed Pilapil, Jr., chief executive officer of Achievers Circle, will discuss the 48 C's of Success.

Running five (5) series of events, BusinessWorld added another series in 2009, this time creating the BusinessWorld Student Forum Series which targets graduating college students. The Student Forum does roadshows to different colleges and universities and brings the authorities and experts of the topic/s that the school organization and administration chooses for its students. This is BusinessWorld's way of reaching out to the younger generation and future business leaders.

Subsribe to the BusinessWorld Student Forum Facebook Page or to this blog for updates on the roadshows for SY 2011-2012. You may invite BusinessWorld to do a forum in your campus for next school year so just drop them a line on FB.




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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Grow Your Business Online


Although a majority of companies (and individuals) are still into traditional media when it comes to promoting their products and services, it can no longer be denied that online is the wave of the (near) future. Specially here in the Philippines, where we currently rank among the top 10 countries (according to checkfacebook.com) based on the number of FB users worldwide, more and more businesses are establishing their online presence either for branding purposes or for sales. But the efforts must not end there.

Beyond having a presence in Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites, is the need to engage your customers to make them loyal fans and to provide not just information but customer experience through co-creation. How do you build your business using social network marketing? How do you also turn your passion into a business through the powerful world of blogging and make people seek you out from amongst the clutter?



BusinessWorld, in cooperation with Mansmith & Fielders, Inc., presents Marketing Rescue on Friday, September 2, 2011, 1 to 5 pm (registration starts at 12 noon), at the Topaz Room of the Penthouse of Midas Hotel, Roxas Boulevard, Manila. Featuring the topic "Using Digital Marketing and Inbound Marketing to Grow Your Business," the event will have as speakers the CEO of MRM Digital Worldwide and Mansmith Chief e-Marketing Strategist Donald Lim and Director, Mansmith and Fielders Inc. and known blogger (www.triciawillgoplaces.tumblr.com) Tricia Gosingtian.

This is a FREE marketing consultancy seminar wherein the attendees get to raise/ask marketing concerns regarding the companies they represent. How does this work? To reserve your FREE seat, just email your name, company, position and contact details to marcom@bworld.com.phwith the subject RESERVE ME A SEAT AT THE MARKETING RESCUE FORUM, on or before August 31. Also include in the registration your most pressing marketing related problem. The first 10 specific questions will be answered by Donald Lim (social networking-related questions) & Tricia Gosingtian (blogging-related questions). Seats are limited to only 50.


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About BusinessWorld Publishing Corporation

BusinessWorld (http://www.bworldonline.com) is the first and leading business newspaper in the country, with over four decades of experience in economic journalism. From merely reporting the latest news on business and the economy, BusinessWorld has evolved to become the premier business news and information provider to the country’s industry movers and decision makers -- through print, online and learning events.

About Mansmith & Fielders, Inc.

Mansmith & Fielders (http://www.mansmith.net) is the country’s leading consultancy firm that “helps your marketing and sales teams soar!” Established in 1989, it is composed of successful practitioners and entrepreneurs with strong theoretical backgrounds. Mansmith & Fielders is a specialists in Marketing and Sales, Strategy and Innovation Training offering segmentized programs to its clientele.

Mansmith & Fielders has a column called "Mansmith Mentors" which appears in BusinessWorld's Wealth Manager section every Monday.

Marketing Rescue is an advocacy project of Mansmith (www.mansmith.net) dedicated to help companies grow or turnaround.

About the speakers

DONALD LIM is the CEO of MRM Digital Worldwide, the digital marketing arm of global marketing communications agency McCann Erickson. Prior to this, Donald was the President of Yehey Philippines and Vice President for Classifieds of the Inquirer. He was the founding President of the Internet Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines (IMMAP) and was the youngest president of the Philippine Marketing Association. Donald is the Chief e-Marketing Strategist of Mansmith and Fielders, Inc.

TRICIA GOSINGTIAN (triciawillgoplaces.tumblr.com) is a fashion blogger and photographer. She was the only Asian to have been sponsored to the New York Fashion Week last February 2011 by Tumblr.com and was the first Filipina to have reached the top 10 worldwide of the fashion blog Lookbook.nu. She was recognized as one of Go Negosyo’s Young Entrepreneurs in 2010 and was awarded the Loyola Schools Art Award in Photography by her alma mater Ateneo de Manila University also in 2010.


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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Ode to Friendster

I first caught the social networking fever way back in 2005 when I first started using Friendster. I remember feeling loved by my friends' testimonials and birthday greetings and really felt connected with them whenever we share photos of the latest happenings in our lives, even if some of them are miles away. But because there was nothing else to do on the site, I soon lost interest and just maintained it and updated it months apart.


Then my colleagues at work started using Facebook and its exciting applications that make it possible for you to have a virtual pet or send virtual gifts to friends. Friendster tried that for a time but the apps were erroneous. I only started my Facebook account in November 2008 when I joined a group of fellow media practitioners in an event in Pearl Farm and most of the parting words I heard when we were about to leave the resort were, "Pa-tag na lang ng pics sa FB ha."

I made use of Facebook like I used Friendster -- for photos uploads and messages -- until I tried the game apps and got hooked. That's another story but I think that was how Facebook got most, if not all, of Friendster users over the years. I remember Friendster revamping itself and relaunching to the public last year but I guess they did some heavy thinking and accepted that Facebook is currently the winning social network around the globe, that is until another Mark Zuckerberg comes about.

Today marks the last day of Friendster as a social network, instead it is positioning itself as a social entertainment website for games and music apps. They even made this file exporter for those who want to save the "memories" they entrusted to Friendster -- the application can download and save the user profile, photos and even blog. Being a sentimental fool, I stayed up late last night to retrieve all that I can from Friendster before it vanishes into virtual oblivion.

It was only after savings my files that I read the advisory that they are extending the deadline until June 27. So for those agonizing at having missed the chance to save the "memories", you still have 27 days to do so. Now it is goodbye to Friendster, the social network; and hello to Friendster, the social entertainment.

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