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 »
July 18, 2007
Everything is set for the annual gathering of U.P. graduates in America on September 1-3, 2007 at the Hilton San Francisco Financial District Hotel, 750 Kearny Street, San Francisco, California!
Today, I was on the phone with Ted Aquino, the president of the University of the Philippines Alumni Association in America (or UPAAA) and [...]
Filed under: Marketing & Public Relations, Non-Profit Connections, Talk Story (a.k.a. "blog") on July 19th, 2007 | No Comments »
July 17, 2007
I was a typical immigrant from the Philippines who didn’t know anything about the Rescission Act of 1946 and the role of Filipino American and Filipino soldiers in World War II. It was a huge piece of artwork that was being prepared for the NaFFAA Y2K2 Empowerment Conference in San Jose, California, courtesy [...]
Filed under: Non-Profit Connections, Talk Story (a.k.a. "blog") on July 17th, 2007 | No Comments »
July 13, 2007
I first met Major Ian Tudlong in July of 2003 when Ora Seyler and I passed by Salinas, California (on our way to Los Angeles) to participate as a booth vendor for Barlin Real Estate Group in the Monterey-Salinas region’s yearly Filipino American outdoor festival. As I distributed marketing materials to the other [...]
Filed under: Talk Story (a.k.a. "blog") on July 14th, 2007 | No Comments »
Since I’m still learning how to use WordPress, I might as well go to WordCamp. If you want to know how to blog and develop your blog, this might just be your answer. Come and join me! Limited attendance. Registration is $25.
Filed under: Marketing & Public Relations, Talk Story (a.k.a. "blog") on July 11th, 2007 | No Comments »