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PRESS RELEASE 26 June 2012 Celebrate Social Media Day 2012 at Tomas Morato, QC this June 30! The Social Media Day is a worldwide event spearheaded by Mashable.com, which celebrates the connected generation around the world on June 30, 2012. In the Philippines, several key cities would take part in the celebration, which is very appropriate because the country is hailed as the social media capital of the world. One of these events will be a networking event for social media citizens, bloggers, and digital personalities at Tea 101 Taiwan's No. 1 Drink located at Scout Bayoran corner Tomas Morato Extension, Brgy. Laging Handa, Quezon City. The venue is in front Hotel Rembrandt and IL Terrazzo Mall. The event starts at 7 PM on Saturday. Manila Social Media Day 2012 in particular aims to provide an appropriate venue for the community to mingle and meet-up offline, which can support better camaraderie afterwards through various social media and digital platforms. ...

Finally after years of signing-up and missing the summit I was able to make it last May 25-26, 2012. Yes I went there to represent and introduce my new blog about chocolate - http://pinoychocophile.blogspot.com  I had fun and learned a lot from the speakers and other bloggers. Congratulations to Ms. Janet Toral, Flow Galindez and the rest of officers and staff of the summit, Mabuhay!

I am re-posting a column (The Plain Dealer)Regina Brett's, 45 life lessons and 5 to grow on. The list is very interesting so I lifted the whole article here.  Published: Sunday, May 28, 2006, 10:13 AM  Updated: Thursday, April 03, 2008, 10:17 AM  Source -http://www.cleveland.com/brett/blog/index.ssf/2006/05/regina_bretts_45_life_lessons.html  To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolls over to 50 this week, so here's an update: 1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good. 2. When in doubt, just take the next small step. 3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. 4. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does. 5. Pay off your credit cards every month. 6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree. 7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone. 8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it. 9. Save ...

MABUHAY ! CONGRATULATIONS to all Passers! According to the site of  HRD-Korea ( http://epsklt.hrdkorea.or.kr ) the purpose of the test is:Promoting adaptation to Korean life by leading entrance of foreign worker who has basic understanding on Korea and evaluation of the level of Korean language skills of foreign job seekers and Korean society, It can be used as objective selection criteria for the list of foreign job seekers. For those who successfully pass the exam, composed of listening and reading, they will have a chance for employment in Korea. So the exam serves as a qualifier in getting a job. In the Philippines it is now the 8th EPS- KLT since it was introduced in 2008. Korea and the Philippines signed a bilateral agreement on the sending and receiving of workers through the Employment Permit System (EPS). TOTAL NUMBER OF 8TH KLT APPLICANTS: 24,021  For Manila alone the break down as follows: MAPUA: 762 /  ADAMSON: 2,400    CEU (MANILA...

Nine overseas Filipino workers each won P10,000 as cash prize during 1st monthly raffle draw of the Social Security System’s (SSS) Member-Get-Member promo at the SSS corporate headquarters in Quezon City on February 29. OFWs can register for the promo at the agency’s local and foreign offices and through the SSS website (www.sss.gov.ph) until June 30. Photo shows Commissioner Daniel Edralin (3rd from left), head of the Social Security Commission’s Committee on OFWs, pick one of the winners with the help of SSS OFW Management Department Head Joy Villacorta (right). Also present were (from left) Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog  Awards (PEBA) Luzon and Metro Manila Coordinator Pete Rahon, Kabalikat ng Migranteng Pilipino President Luther Calderon, SSS Assistant Vice President for Internal Audit Service Antonette Fernandez and SSS Senior Vice President for International Operations Judy See. TO JOIN, CLICK HERE   https://www.sss.gov.ph/sss/index2.jsp?secid=2064&cat=6...

Social remittance as a concept is not something new in the Filipino diaspora.  In the 1800’s, considering the novels of Dr. Jose Rizal and the writings from the La Solidaridad by Filipino heroes, we see that their ideas paved the way for a revolution. In the 21 st century, blogging is the new form of social remittance of Filipinos working and living abroad.  Through their blogs they are publishing their stories online to inspire others. They also advocate causes, help others and muster support from their readers to help effect change in their own little ways. For more than 30 years Filipinos has been in constant motion for greener pastures due to poverty and limited job opportunities in the country.  Today the unemployment rate is still high at 7.2%, not to dismiss that among those employed many considered themselves underemployed. Diaspora is more than  a phenomenon; it is a necessity when Filipinos migrate to work or reside permanently in the West and ...

The May 18 Memorial Foundation is recruiting once again international interns. Below is their letter to their contacts, I was an intern myself beloging to the pioneer or first batch in 2005 . Greetings friends of The May 18 Memorial Foundation, As 2012 is approaching, we would like to announce that we have opened the annual internship program application. The internship program is an imperative part of the Foundation’s mandate to promote international solidarity and further the promotion of human rights across the world. Through the internship program the Foundation aimsto build concrete solidarity through the exchange of human resource and also to nurture outstanding individuals to lead global civil society. Thus we would like to request for your help to spread our call for the 2012 International Internship Program. Please click at the attached link to find out more about our 2012 international internship program. Best regards, Solidarity Team, The May 18 Memorial F...

Antonio Salac Santos, 55 He was a lecturer, creative consultant, actor, baritone, stylist, decorator, landscape artist, essayist, poet, culinary artist, editor and sage—the late Antonio Salac Santos couldn’t be pigeonholed. To many, he was the perennial Peter Pan, playful, adventurous and idiosyncratic despite the thinning, salt-and-pepper hair at 55 years old. Friends described him as “brilliant” and “genius.” Like a genie, he could do anything on the spot at your command. Although Santos never completed his degree in AB Broadcast Communication, he was invited to lecture because of his experience in media. He played Emilio Aguinaldo in Johnny Manahan’s epic TV series “Kasaysayan ng Lahi”; worked in the advertising sections of Business Day and Philippine Daily Express; edited Man, one of the early magazines in the ’90s catering to male readership; and joined big ad firms such as Hemisphere-Leo Burnett and J. Romero & Associates. Since 1999, Santos has done pictorial direction fo...

Related news -  http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/10/11/11/contest-ofw-bloggers-launched NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 10, 2011 International Blog Awards to honor the homecoming of OFWs & Filipino Expats MANILA, 10 October 2011 – Pinoy Expats OFW Blog Awards, Inc., an international alliance of OFW & Pinoy Expatriate Bloggers will put to center stage the return of Philippines modern-day heroes as PEBA 2011 celebrates the “homecoming” of OFWs and Filipino Expatriates. Joining this year’s celebration are Ayala Malls, Nokia and Globe Telecoms. PEBA is on its 4th year of recognizing Blogs written from all over the world by Filipino workers and expatriates. This year is unique from the previous awards night as it will also honor the talent of Filipinos abroad in the field of photography. “We wanted to bring a message to the world that despite the hardship experienced by our fellow Filipinos working or residing abroad, w...

 Another beautiful email message forwarded by a friend. Sharing it with the rest of you dear readers.... BALANCE SHEET  OF LIFE Our Birth is our Opening Balance!   Our Death is our Closing Balance!   Our Prejudiced Views are our Liabilities   Our Creative Ideas are our Assets   Heart is our Current Asset   Soul is our Fixed Asset   Brain is our Fixed Deposit   Thinking is our Current Account   Achievements are our Capital   Character & Morals, our Stock-in-Trade   Friends are our General Reserves   Values & Behaviour are our Goodwill Patience is our Interest Earned  Love is our Dividend  Children are our Bonus Issues  Education is Brands / Patents  Knowledge is our Investment  Experience is our Premium Account  The Aim is to Tally the  Balance Sheet  Accurately.  The Goal  is to get the Best Presented Accounts Award.   ~~~~~~~~~~...

Blog post for Blogger's Unite - International Day of Compassion in honor of Dr. Patch Adams Sulyapinoy  August 2010  Issue

Another historic event in the making in the Congress while I am doing this blog. Well I hope that signing up for this will not just be historical but also historic in economic returns, let see.  I saw at facebook's friends status update about churpchurp, so joining the bandwagon am reposting info about it here in my blog. And the Ombudsman is impeached! Her case will now be sent to the Senate for trial! Anyway going back...  This is from the blog of the company with the link here - http://ph.churpchurp.com/blog/2010/12/04/churpchurp-is-now-in-the-philippines/     CHURPCHURP IS NOW IN THE PHILIPPINES! Hi Future Churpies! ChurpChurp is now in the Philippines! ChurpChurp is indeed a community of Social Media influencers and we’d like you to be part of it! Sign up now and be among the first among your peers to pick up the latest news, personalize it and share it to your friends and followers all over your social media networks. As a community, we’ll be ...

I am joining a Bloggers Association here in the Philippines. The official name is still being finalized. Also, Filipino expats and OFWs find "national" (for a National Bloggers Assoc.) as limiting and may not encompass their global presence.   I previously worked for an NGO that emphasizes the importance of CO – community organizing. We help communities organize themselves, train leaders and identify issues in their community.  Organizing is a form of empowerment especially among marginalized groups who are uneducated, poor, lacking of resources, does not have connections. The only leverage they have to be listened to and have their issue addressed is through their organized force in their effort to lobby, negotiate and meet face to face those who are in power. I have seen urban poor leaders that we have trained consummate their community issues. Their initiative and effort of organizing  their communities and effecting change in their lives and making their settlement...