Last week, I made a new intention. I want to thank my family and friends for gently reminding me to take care of my health. Especially my coach, you know who you are, you “dogged” friend! An adversaria refers to “a collection of notes, remarks, or selections.”
Since RadiantView.com is more focused on my marketing, […]
Filed under: Talk Story (a.k.a. "blog") on September 5th, 2007 | No Comments »
August 26, 2007
This morning, I received an e-mail from one of my friends in the Filipina Women’s Network 2006 Future Search Summit google group about the Malu Fernandez fiasco. I decided to write a blog entry a week after the Pinoy blogosphere rocked cyberspace with the story. This is because I wanted to find out […]
Filed under: Talk Story (a.k.a. "blog"), Writings and Musings on August 26th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Let’s share cat stories for Cat Appreciation Day. This special occasion occurs only when I declare that a celebration be prepared for honoring cats, your cats, and everyone’s cats — the domestic kind, I mean. If we have a Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day or Father’s Day, then we need a Cat Appreciation Day. Simple logic. […]
Filed under: Talk Story (a.k.a. "blog") on August 16th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
August 15, 2007
In my marketing, public relations, community service, and event management worlds, the keyword “sexy” means “attractive,” “appealing,” “hip,” “trendy,” “in vogue,” “fashionable, “in style,” “contemporary” and all the positive adjectives you can think of.
Dr. Belen Lardizabal-Dofitas, a gorgeous, multi-talented Filipina mom (a.k.a. my youngest sister) from Quezon City, Philippines breastfeeds her almost-five years […]
Filed under: Non-Profit Connections, Talk Story (a.k.a. "blog") on August 15th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is every event organizer and public relations practitioner’s issue: When you’ve invited many speakers to talk before an audience and you want to adhere to tight time management guidelines for this particular function. I am not a protocol or etiquette expert. However, I write “sequence sheets” or “time schedule slash scripts” for some tightly-produced […]
Filed under: Communications, Marketing & Public Relations, Talk Story (a.k.a. "blog") on August 7th, 2007 | No Comments »
On July 21, 2007, during my first day at WordCamp for WordPress users, I spoke up and told my fellow conference attendees about the google bombing campaign my sister, Noemi Dado, and her friends were undertaking to take back the word Filipina online from its massive “dating and penpal websites” and put this word in […]
Filed under: Marketing & Public Relations, Talk Story (a.k.a. "blog") on July 30th, 2007 | 12 Comments »
YouTube.com, or “Broadcast Yourself,” is a part of the growing Social Web — where families and friends can share their experiences to others worldwide. Thus, when Marissa Aroy, our independent filmmaker-member of the Filipina Women’s Network (FWN), e-mailed our e-group about what 1,500+ prison inmates at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (or CPDRC) […]
Filed under: Talk Story (a.k.a. "blog") on July 26th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I’m getting ready to go to Word Camp 2007, Day Two. Before I hop into the beautiful F-Line streetcar here at Fisherman’s Wharf, let me share some thoughts with you. [And if you’re reading this before I can provide the necessary links, wait for the edits.]
Question: What happens when a marketing, public relations, and event […]
Filed under: Talk Story (a.k.a. "blog"), WordPress-Related, Writings and Musings on July 22nd, 2007 | 7 Comments »
During the winter months in Chicagoland, my husband and I were not very happy being stuck in the condo, especially during the raging storms. The highlight of our days was “watching the squirrels.”
There were six squirrels who greeted my husband every morning at the balcony. One of them would boldly stand in front of […]
Filed under: Talk Story (a.k.a. "blog") on July 20th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
July 19, 2007
When I was fact-checking the information about the upcoming Pre-Centennial Convention of the University of the Philippines Alumni Association in America, I bumped into some news about more reunions in Cebu for 2008.
Marissa Fernan, our ever-efficient classmate and oftentimes-mastermind of our grand reunions in Cebu (remember the 1993 and 1998 affairs?) — […]
Filed under: Talk Story (a.k.a. "blog") on July 19th, 2007 | No Comments »
