Geek Girl

Here’s an excerpt:

Time was, few people had heard of blogging, let alone maintained their own blogs. Now that blogging has become a familiar online activity, with users ranging from hobbyists to professional bloggers to journalists to companies, how can Pinoy bloggers stand out from the crowd?

For blogger and social media manager Lia Espina Lopez, who maintains the Geek Girl Manila site, the key differentiator is passion. It’s what fueled the growth of her blog and led to it being named the best blog in the Lifestyle Category for the National Level of the 2011 Philippine Blog Awards.

Read the full story to check out her blogging tips.

Harnessing the power of the Internet to support Original Pilipino Music, Yahoo! Rocks features some of the country’s top acts, chosen by Yahoo! readers. Yahoo! readers also voted on submissions from aspiring Pinoy musicians, who will now get to perform on stage in front of thousands of fans.

If you’re outside the Philippines or can’t go to the concert, you can watch the live video stream and join the live blog at the Yahoo! Rocks site.

Here’s the list of Pinoy acts performing at Yahoo! Rocks.

Are you on Twitter? Follow @YahooPH and use the hashtag #YahooRocks to tweet about the concert.

Support our local music artists! Mabuhay ang OPM!

That’s why I’m glad that the Ateneo Association of Communication Majors (ACOMM) is holding its first Social Media Summit, with Yahoo! Philippines as its online partner.

I’m one of the speakers, and I’m honored to be in the company of Maria Ressa, Pilar Pedrosa Pilar, Jim Paredes, Ivan Henares, Candice Montenegro, and Rowena Azada-Palacios.

Here’s ACOMM’s 2011 Social Media Summit video.

For more information, check out this article on Yahoo! Philippines.

See you there!

You’ll be hearing more about ECOMTAP. Soon

Here’s an excerpt from my blog post for Yahoo! Philippines.

The phrase “end of an era” is often overused, but today, it perfectly captures the shock and sadness of learning that an icon and genius has passed away at age 56.

Steve Jobs is dead.

It’s still hard to believe.

Check out the story, which incorporates comments from the Yahoo! Philippines community. And do visit our Steve Jobs tribute wall.

You may tweet your message to @YahooPH if you would like your comment to appear there.

Let’s take to heart what Steve Jobs said: “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

Thank you, Steve.

Here’s a photo of Sam and Asha. Looks like she also wants to be a writer heh she’s already written a lot of stuff.

Blogged this by the way on my iPhone while waiting for Sam’s piano class to start

Here are some photos of our mini-celebration at the Yahoo! Philippines office to commemorate the 16th birthday of Yahoo! last week. Thanks to our producer Thea Alberto for taking the pics.

Should be an interesting event!

The keynote speaker is world-renowned Web and digital marketing strategist Jeremiah Owyang. Ken Mandel, Yahoo! Vice President of Advertising Sales and Marketplace for APAC, will give a talk on digital thoughts and trends.

You can check out the list of speakers and topics here. I’m one of the panelists at the Blog Marketing session moderated by Janette Toral.

By the way, Yahoo! Philippines is giving away Yahoo! goodies to the first 100 (one hundred) attendees dressed in purple, so who knows, you might be one of the lucky winners.

See you all there.

On Aug. 12, my boss Alan Soon announced my promotion, just before I gave my presentation on our regional social content strategy. So yup, it’s official: my new position is Head of Social Content Strategy for Southeast Asia of Yahoo! Southeast Asia.

As Smitty a.k.a. dreampipe said, I’m going to have to get bigger business cards, heh.

I was in Singapore at the time, and Filipino blogger and journalist Tonyo Cruz called me up from Manila to conduct a phone interview and quickly publish this story on AsianCorrespondent.com.

Thanks, Tonyo.

Expect to see lots of exciting changes as we execute our plan for social content and conduct some “social engineering” — pun most certainly intended.

Remember, it’s social + content, not one or the other.