Bilibid.com: Penny Auction Site Review

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by Fleire Castro on November 8, 2011

As stated on their site, Bilibid.com is a penny auction site wherein users can bid for a specific item using bid points. Just like the usual bidding process, whoever bids the highest price for the item, wins the auction. Instead of bidding for free though and cashing out only when you win a bid, these [...]

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Iligan Bloggers Society is hosting the Mindanao Bloggers Summit 2011 with the theme “One Green Mindanao” on October 29 – 30, 2011 in Iligan City. With this, I am off to travel mode next week to visit my hometown. Let’s get on immediately with my list because the second portion is more important – why [...]

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Whenever I hear about Multiply there is only one thing that comes to my mind – online shops. I have been accustomed on being given a Multiply link when I ask for online sellers to show me their website. I even remember one attendee at our Bloggable seminar with Ms. Janette Toral before telling me [...]

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Bringing Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) in Cebu

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by Fleire Castro on October 11, 2011

In a digitally connected generation where innovation moves too fast for technologists, it is your education and knowledge of better frameworks and methods that will propel productivity in your organization. SCRUM, a framework for project management used in agile software development, has gained so much popularity that knowledge of the framework is expected for institutions [...]

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3 Signs of a Prima Donna Blogger (and How to Deal With Them)

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by Fleire Castro on September 8, 2011

There will always be instances when The Prima Donna Syndrome rears its ugly head especially in blogger organizations where there is diversity in the group members. Working in a non-profit blogger organization can be a very daunting, time-consuming and tough task to carry on. I should know because I am the membership chairman of one [...]

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What Digital Marketers Can Learn from Simon Sinek

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by Fleire Castro on August 22, 2011

In the digital marketing plan class that I attended, I can’t help but notice the HumanKind Framework that they mentioned in discovering your brand essence.  It’s a strategic framework created by Leo Burnett in discovering and creating a plan for brands. What I found good in this kind of approach is that it taps at [...]

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Cebu Educational Development Foundation for Information Technology (CEDF-IT) in partnership with New Media Group has launched the first SMS-based job site for Information Technology applicants. According to the Inquirer news article, it was a project that has been “in the planning stage for five years”  and now they have found a partner for that need [...]

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Individuals, Bloggers, Businesses need a DTI Sales Promotion Permit even if there is no purchase required.  This post has sent the Philippine blogosphere ablaze setting “DTI” as  a trending topic at the moment. I logged in G+ early this morning to find a post from Ms. Janette Toral’s Social Media Contest and Promotions Philippines blog. It was the [...]

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