ABS-CBN and MYX Philippines Facebook Page ranks 25 and 23 globally

In line with the ranking of the Philippines as number 5 in top users of Facebook with 20, 802, 540 and still growing accounts, MYX Philippines and ABS-CBN (Channel 2) ranks number 23 and 25 globally in top media accounts. The info was collated by Yehey from socialbakers.com.Myx Philippines gained 1, 125, 298 fans while ABS-CBN has 1, 005, 841 followes.

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While the comedienne Vice Ganda and also an ABS-CBN talent takes the lead as the artist with 2, 638, 029 fans, globally Lady Gaga is number 1 with 26, 633, 204 followers.

Based on the reports given by socialbakers.com through Yehey, the population of Facebook users in the Philippines is 52% Female and 48% Male, where age bracket of FB users were18-35 years old. USA is still number 1 followed by Indonesia, UK, and Turkey.

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Share your unforgettable “I Dos” with We Heart Weddings

May 18, Taguig City – The latest interactive hub for wedding planners and future couples in deciding how their weddings will be. From the creative minds of famous Wedding Essentials Magazine, Marbee Shing-Go (current Editor in Chief) and Cynthia Bauzon-Arre (former creative director) brings a wedding blog that everyone would love to visit that contains unforgettable wedding stories and the actual planning stage of those successful weddings that every brides is dreaming of. We Heart Weddings (www.WeHeartWeddings.com)is the latest wedding blog that will cater the answer the needs of internet savvy Pinay bride.

We Heart Weddings website

Aside from successful and unforgettable wedding stories, We Heart Weddings contains tips on wedding planning, flowers, invitations, gowns and even souvenirs, making the bride create their own wedding like they always wanted.

RJ Ledesma with Marbee Shing-Go

We Heart Weddings also give chances to couples to share their unforgettable wedding stories and get the chance to be features in the cover of Wedding Essentials in their Say I Do to the Offer of a Lifetime contest. Interesting participants on the said contest can submit their wedding stories bw10@weheartweddings.com and only weddings from September 2009 to present will be accepted here is the complete requirements:

1. Philippine connection (must have 1 or more of the following: (a) a Filipino bride, a Filipino groom, or both; (b) a Philippine venue; or (c) at least 3 Filipino wedding suppliers).
2. Entries must be (a) 600-800words in English, (b) express details of the wedding in blog or photo essay format in your own voice, (c) include 3 tips for soon-to-wed readers and (d) come with 8-10 photos and link to the FaceBook or wedding site wedding photo album.

Wedding Essentials Magazine Editor-in-Chief Marbee Shing-Go

For the full details on this promo, visit www.weheartweddings.com.

Marbee Shing-Go shares her newest project We Heart Weddings
Top 10 will be awarded with Wedding Essentials complimentary magazine where their stories and photos were published, gift bags from WE’s sponsors and will be joining the Beautiful Weddings-October Issue Launch. The promo will run until July 18, 2010.

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Utilizing Social Media as alternative marketing tool

Last April 22, at the Manila Intercontinental Hotel in Makati City, Rosan Cruz of Assistant Vice President of Group Public Relations, BENPRES Holdings Corporation shares her insights on how to utilize social media for business as an additional marketing tool.

Cruz relates her projects in some of the BENPRES Holdings Corporation campaigns like Lopez Link, Lopez Memorial Museum and Sagip Kapamilya. In spite of the big projects the handles are the limitations on budget. Lopez Link is a monthly publication of the Lopez Group of Companies where it contains corporate information and news and entertainment buzz from ABS-CBN, one of the companies under the Lopez Group. She conducted a survey on what does employee do on the paper (Lopez Link) after reading it, and majority says that it employee take the papers home while only percent says that they throw it or left it somewhere. Aside from the increasing the number of publication, they also created a website where employees and other partners can visit Lopez Link online and it drives traffic coming from various locations as Cruz affirms during her talk.

With other projects she handles, it is hard for her to create a big press conference that requires feeding large crowd along with the venue. Until she discovers the use of social media where she invites bloggers, utilize social networks like twitter, facebook and others. The awareness of the campaign increases without releasing to much money for the campaign materials and TV ads the usual and common marketing tool for big companies. Some of the projects where she used social media and bloggers instead of the usual press were the launching of the Lopez Memorial Museum 50th anniversary, Yehuda Berg’s Book Launch and the annual Pasig River run.

Finally Cruz shares her learning from the use of social media and that is every time we wanted to create buzz on the product it should be early or at least a month before its official launch, and it’s not on how many post was created but look at the quality and how it was created. To know the future projects of Susar Cruz and BENPRESS Holdings Corporations and Lopez Group of Companies, follow Lopez Link at Twitter and like Lopez Link at Facebook to join their group page.

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Join KC Concepcion and WFP's Auction to Fight Child Hunger in Mindanao

April 23, Manila – KC Concepcion, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Philippines Ambassador against Hunger, launches an online auction of personal items on 23 April to raise funds to provide schoolchildren in conflict-affected areas of Mindanao with nutritious meals.

With the theme “KC’s Closet Fights Child Hunger,” the auction will include Ms. Concepcion’s personal effects such as bags and dresses featured during some of the important events of her life. The items are available on Ebay Philippines at www.stores.ebay.ph/KCsClosetFightsChildHunger where potential buyers can view the weekly collection. In addition to items from Ms. Concepcion, other celebrity friends will also be joining the cause and auction off their own personal items.

“I am inviting everyone to support this worthy cause. Together we can help give these children who have been affected by the conflict an incentive to attend and stay in school and give them an opportunity for a better future,” said Ms Concepcion.

All proceeds from the auction will support WFP’s Emergency Food for Education program, implemented in close collaboration with the Department of Social Welfare and Development, which provides daily hot school meals to 70,000 pupils in the provinces of Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, and Lanao del Norte.

“WFP is very pleased with our National Ambassador’s personal initiative to help raise money and awareness for our operations in Mindanao. We are very proud of KC’s dedication to actively fight against child hunger,” said Mr. Stephen Anderson, WFP Country Director and Representative.

Additional contributions are urgently needed to enable WFP to reach affected populations with appropriate food support on a sustained basis through a variety of relief and rehabilitation interventions, including support through everyday Food-for-Education activities.

Since 2006, WFP in the Philippines has been supporting conflict-affected populations in Mindanao, and also supports the Government of the Philippines natural disaster response on a case-by-case basis. WFP is also currently providing emergency relief and early recovery assistance for populations in Luzon affected by Tropical Storm Ketsana and Typhoon Pepeng.

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Understanding the power of social media through the Social Networking Conference 2010

Fiera de Manila Inc. in partner with Digital Filipino Club brings The Social Networking and eBusiness Conference Philippines 2010 on April 22 and 23 at the Hotel Intercontinental, Ayala Avenue, Makati City.

In the age where the demand of fast-paced transfer of information rises, the internet and social media plays a very important role in bringing the information fast from where it happen to the person who needs it. This is the generation that we call, Generation NOW. The attitude of people on getting information changes, before what happen today will be release tomorrow, now the speed of releasing information should not take hours but only minutes. This is where social media became in demand, making people became part of what we call citizen journalist, sharing their part on the bigness of news and information straight from their PC or mobile phone going to cyberspace for everyone’s consumption. Twitter, Facebook and blogging is now becoming a fad for everyone where they wanted to have their share on giving news or commenting about the news. Now, news is no longer picked on papers but through mobile and pc with one click away.

But with the rapid increase of information in the cyberspace sometimes we don’t know which is true and credible. The Social Networking and eBusiness Conference Philippines 2010 will actually help on getting the right information and how can we take part of giving good and true information in the internet. This year’s conference will be an eye opener to people especially the voter for the May 10 election on how people can use the internet to get information at the same time to be aware of the black propagandas in the cyberspace. With the help of speakers coming from credible company and agencies like Maria Ressa of ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs, Joey Alarilla of Yahoo! Southeast Asia, and Racquel Caraguran of PoliticalArena.com.

Aside from the political side, The Social Networking and eBusiness Conference Philippines 2010 brings will also guide businessman and beginners to discover the power of social media as they venture to eCommerce that will actually help in selling their products and services fast with lesser cost. Gurus from the media relations group like Janette Toral of DigitalFilipino, Brad Geiser of GeiserMaclang Marketing Communications Inc., Leah Camilla Besa-Jimenez of Proximity Philippines, Eduardo Mapa Jr. of Media Contacts Manila and Paul John Peña of Globe Telecom, Inc. will share their stories on how to use social media in pushing the products of certain companies and gaining from it.

There are lots of reasons why everyone should go to The Social Networking and eBusiness Conference Philippines 2010 and the learning that everyone will be getting is more than compare the amount of the registration fee. Registration is still open just visit the Fiera de Manila Inc website to know the payment process and packages for groups who wanted to join the conference.

The 3rd Social Networking Conference is open for sponsors where major sponsors right now include Blog4Reviews.com.

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Get a chance to win KFC Creamy Tomato Pasta Bowl GCs

KFC Creamy Tomato Pasta Bowl aficionados can win gift certificates from their favorite food chain to avail their most coveted pasta bowl for free. KFC brings KFC 100 Ways promo where every day from April 5 – May 6, 2010 there will be six (6) winners of 5 pieces Creamy Tomato Pasta Bowl GCs.

Here are the mechanics for the promo:

1. Become a fan of the KFC 100 Ways Application and use it regularly – post them on your wall, make your own, and send them to your friends.
2. The more you use the application, the closer you get to win Creamy Tomato Pasta Bowl GCs!
3. Every day, there will be six (6) winners of 5 pieces Creamy Tomato Pasta Bowl GCs each.
4. The promo duration is for one month, from April 5 - May 6, 2010.
5. Winners will be announced DAILY on the KFC Pasta Bowl Fan Page.
6. Winners will also receive a notification Facebook Message on how to claim their prize.
7. To claim the GCs, simply reply to the FB Message with your name, cellphone number, and email address. Print out the FB Message thread and bring it along with your ID to Mediacom Office, 7F Lepanto Bldg, 8747 Paseo de Roxas Makati City.
8. Prizes are transferable but not convertible to cash.
9. Winners can win more than once.
10. After the promo period, the KFC 100 Ways App can still be used but no more prizes shall be given away.

This is KFC’s way of thanking their loyal clients with a fun and exciting promo and delicious food.

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Experience fast-paced online bidding through Winila

April 10, SMX Convention Center, SM Mall of Asia – Winila was formally launched at the Domination IV, an annual e-Games event for the gamers and tech savvy here in the Philippines. Winila is not an ordinary online shopping-bidding hub; it is fast-paced internet auction where you can see which product is open for bidding, last bid amount and the time left for the auction.

Winila offers wide range of electronic stuff and stylish accessories that fits for the active lifestyle of its bidders and members. With the limited time of the auction, Winila gives chances to bidders to avail the product on a lower price compare to other auction site that has longer time of posting. The average amount is almost 80% of the actual price.


Winila is for everyone and registration is free. Just visit http://www.winila.com/ and experience the most interactive and fast-paced online bidding with a wide range of electronic gadgets and stylish accessories. There are two options on how to register to Winila; a user can register through the usual registration process where he/she will be providing information such as username, password, email address and others and the second option is through Facebook, where users can register through their Facebook account where like an application in Facebook user can access Winila and publish products that is up for bidding in his/her wall and can invite his/her Facebook friends to win bidding points.

I mention bidding points, Winila users can earn bidding credits where they can use online in two ways; first they can earn points through friends invite and second they can buy bidding points through credit cards with a denomination of 10, 25, 50, here is the complete list of the bidding credits; $10 = 20 bids, $25 = 50 bids, $50 = 100 bids, $100 = 200 bids, $250 = 500 bids. But also there is option where users can buy the product directly without bidding.

Try Winila and experience the fun of bidding and the chances of winning the gadget you like. Register now!

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KFC Launches Say Cheese Promo

Get a chance to win Nintendo Wii or PSP by just sending your funniest and wackiest photos in line with the latest product of KFC that is now making everyone going nuts with the cheesiness and tastiness of their latest product – the KFC Chewy Cheese.

Here is the complete mechanics of the Say Cheese promo of KFC:

To post a photo, go to the wall of the Chewy Cheese Fan Page (http://www.facebook.com/KFCchewycheese) and upload photo.

1. Entries have to be original.
2. Entries may not be composed or edited through Photoshop.
3. Post as many entries as you can!
4. Criteria for Judging

a. Number of Votes (1 like = 1 vote) – 50%
b. Creativity – 30%
c. Humor – 20%

5. Promo period is from March 31 to April 30, 2010
6. Prizes:

1st place: Wii
2nd place: PSP
3rd place: 5,000 worth of KFC GCs
4th place: 3,000 worth of KFC GCs
5th place: 2,000 worth of KFC GCs

7. Prizes are transferable but not convertible to cash
8. Winners will be announced on May 5, 2010 through the site.

Chewy Cheese is the latest product of KFC that is bite-sized cheese based food that is crispy outside and filled with chewy and stretchy mozzarella cheese outside. I am sure that you will be having hundred reasons why you will go gaga with this new KFC Product.

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Join Modess Angels Facebook Group and empower women

After months of campaign to empower women who became front liners of change and advocacy, Modess continue their support through the Mondess Angels Facebook Group Page project that donates comfort kits to women in evacuation centers for every Facebook members joining the group. Right now Modess Angels Facebook Group reaches over 30,000 members.

From a portal of information for women and advocates of women empowerment the group page transform to a volunteer hub for women who wanted to join volunteer works.
The Modess Angels community keeps growing and encouraging the culture of helping. By partnering with socio-civic organizations, they seek more opportunities to extend comforting care to fellow women who are in need.

Modess Angel Commercial
This Women’s Month, Modess Angels salutes all women who have taken the time to help our troubled sisters. We would also like to encourage all the other women to join and extend comfort to our sisters in need. Together, as Modess Angels, we can spread the goodwill and be well informed on how we can give comfort to other women. Arm in arm, we can make things happen - starting with ourselves, our family, the community, maybe even the world.

It doesn’t take an army to rebuild a nation. It takes Angels.

Visit http://www.facebook.com/modessangels and join the group.

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Doing business the Redpages.ph way

Another online marketplace emerges into the cyberspace to give opportunities to businessman and online entrepreneurs. Redpages.ph according to the Creative Online Media Inc. Chief Executive Officer Dennis Ng, the person behind the new online marketplace he saw the opportunity in the services sector by providing a platform for doing business. The website allows small and medium enterprises to sell their products and look for suppliers through the internet.

Now Redpages.ph is working its way in the competing arena as one of the leading and growing online marketplace in the Philippines. “Purchasers need not scan the telephone directory and call each one of them for quotations. All a purchaser has to do is tap the redpages.ph for these needs at the least cost,” Ng said. He claims that there are already 17,000 pre-listed companies in the website. The SMEs are entitled to feature up to five products. Each company can upload products, photos and company profile, and for other company they upgrade their platforms by paying P8,888 annual fee. “The annual payment is but just peanuts compared to the countless opportunities they can avail through the redpages.ph,” Ng said.

Users can view mini-webpages and listings in over 30 industry categories and nearly 350 product categories from agriculture to funerals and so much more and with 1,005 design templates to choose from to suit a particular company’s business while companies who signs for premium (upgraded) account will be given an specific designed website according to their specs.

Creative Online has engaged the services of Dun & Bradstreet, a US-based company that provides international and US business credit information and credit reports, for the authentication process, which is done on an annual basis. “Our primary objectives are to promote e-commerce within the Philippines and utilize the internet to link businesses with international buyers, vendors, trade facilitation bodies and government institutions. We hope to enable Filipino businesses to create a place for themselves in the e-world and get their share out of this fast growing trade channel,” said Ng.

The company is also engaged in search engine optimization by continually updating Yahoo and Google of their listed companies so that searches would automatically redirect to the redpages.ph website and put their companies on top the list.

Ng could only dream that they would someday become the Alibaba of the Philippines, but who knows? Alibaba provides B2B for Chinese firms with an estimated listing of 4 million now although China has 30 million SMEs.

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