new media
Wiki: social publishing
Monday, June 2nd, 2008As I’ve written before, the new wave of Internet developments that we find ourselves in is called Web 2.0. And belonging to this overarching concept are blogs, cutting edge Web designs, social media, and the like.
Blogs are personal publishing platforms. For the most part, they reflect the individual opinion of their owners. There are such [...]
What’s on the horizon for Davao IT
Sunday, April 13th, 2008What’s on the horizon for Davao’s IT industry? We’re seeing more software development companies being put up (by locals and by immigrants), and we’re seeing newfangled products and services being offered locally.
This post is only about a couple of teasers. The real deal will follow as soon as I have more details to blog about.
A [...]
The emerging New Media
Thursday, October 25th, 2007Donald Lim, president of Yehey!, delivered an insightful talk on “new media” during one of the breakout sessions of the 6th Mindanao ICT Congress last 24 October 2007. While the presentation revolved around Yehey.com offerings, what Lim said about emerging new media rings true across the world.
What is new media?
Blogs are a part of [...]
The efficacy of blogging
Saturday, August 4th, 2007Recently I was told that a company I’d written about, Damosa Land, had my blog post in question printed out and disseminated among their staff. I’m not sure if it was as a matter of a directive by management or just the initiative of some employees, but the fact remains that I’d made an impression.
This [...]
Google Davao Roadshow
Sunday, June 24th, 2007From the 29th of June 2007, Google Philippines Country Consultant, Aileen Apolo, will be in Davao City for a series of seminars. The Google Davao Roadshow will be for the benefit of owners of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), as well as college students and faculty members. Aileen will also meet up with Davao-based bloggers [...]
Davao bloggers’ network online
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007After Aileen Apolo’s presentation to Davao’s SMEs on Google AdWords & Google Apps last Tuesday at DTI, I finally gave the latter a test run. So I’ve come to the conclusion that Google Apps is a web presence creator. It has, among other things, community-building tools for allowing all of your organization’s members to collaborate [...]
New media advertising
Monday, March 19th, 2007Yesterday Aileen Apolo, country consultant of Google Philippines met up with SEO professionals in Davao. (This was her second meet-up with them, the first being in November last year.) Aileen’s talk focused on Google AdWords. Simply put, it is an online service by which advertisers can promote and market their products / services via Google’s [...]