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The First of The Last

Alps — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:42:24 +0000

Yesterday was a Friday the 13th and I sure experienced what it wanted to offer. One of my classes (which I already enrolled and paid for) was dissolved by the department due to the below-minimum number of enrolees. I had to transfer to another class which has a conflict with another class. So, I have [...]

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In Pictures

Alps — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:46:25 +0000

Most of my recent (an overstatement) entries here at my personal blog were mere links or teasers for my academic blog entries. This is reflective of the fact that I don’t have a personal life since most of my hours were spent for the thing called academics. Now I feel the pressure to tell stories [...]

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Social Media Enthusiast

Alps — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:53:12 +0000

So you want to be a social media enthusiast huh? Well, the mere basic knowledge about new social media won’t really suffice. Yahoo! Philippines, one of the leading multinational internet companies opened a new job for a social media producer. Well, organizational communication enthusiasts who want to venture to the new social media (NSM) industry or want [...]

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University Marketing

Alps — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:00:46 +0000

This blog has been up for some time already and I did not start this because I’m nerdy like that, haha. This is actually a fun requirement for one of my major subjects, Organizational Communication 153 (Communication Trends and Styles). One of the goals of this project is for Organizational Communication students to penetrate the new [...]

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Politicians as Brands

Alps — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:01:12 +0000

Mr. Paolo Pangan, Digital Strategy Manager of Yehey! Corporation, talked about Online and Viral Marketing in our class. I was thinking of nice way to share what I learned from Mr. Pao until I remembered the things he told us in the end. Before he concluded his talk, he mentioned some politicians that have websites and [...]

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A Triathlon Hosted by Ondoy

Alps — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:14:49 +0000

September 26, 2009, 9:00 am: I left my house with my two sets of formal wear, one set of casual wear, two pairs of shoes and 150 freaking pieces of CDs. And oh, I have my umbrella which, apparently, has no match to Ondoy’s screaming power. I rode a bus bound for Lawton but before [...]

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Social Media and Calamities

Alps — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:30:40 +0000

I have been talking all about New Social Media in this blog and, maybe, some of you just want enough of it. Haha. Anyway, NSM has penetrated almost all aspects of our life and I have written about some of them here—most are in the context of businesses and organizations. I think it is just [...]

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An Easy Social Media Release

Alps — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:49:45 +0000

You can see it everywhere: organizations, companies or even individuals distribute Press Releases to relevant opinion leaders or key people like the media. Press releases are done to spark public interest or to start a hype regarding a specific subject. Usually, when you take a look at the status quo, press releases are distributed to [...]

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Of Viral Vlogs and Values

Alps — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:03:02 +0000

A week has passed since we started promoting our video. And I can tell everyone that it was indeed An Experience. Promotion may sound simple but, just like other things, it is easier said than done. I will be enumerating the different strategies and tactics that we used to make our video blog viral. Read the rest [...]

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My Unilever Internship Revalida

Alps — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:21:13 +0000

A rainy Saturday. I’m here at the bus, blogging about my internship revalida at Unilever. Of course, I won’t be pouring so much technicalities about it since I might be sued for breach of contract. Anyway, there is an undying emotion about what I felt about the revalida–I felt I delivered a mediocre one, I [...]

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