Philippines
The Blogging Gospel of Yuga
In a nation of natural social media adopters, Abe “Yuga” Olandres is the Philippines’ most successful problogger. In this new video interview, he shares his blogging gospel.
- Create conversations.
- Either be unique, or be a good writer.
- 80% on-topic, 20% off-topic.
- Start with passion.
- Network, network, network.
- Be content and have fun.
(Via Ngetchie.)
Hanep Hataw Hero 2006 Anime Convention
Hanep Hataw Hero 2005 was a pretty damn big anime convention, so I have high expectations for Hanep Hataw Hero 2006. Since Filipino anime fans are a connected bunch, Hero TV’s Eric Go should do what TechCrunch does: promote a unique tag for all social media related to this event. Fans would use that tag for all related media they post on blogs, Flickr, YouTube, et cetera. That way, Hero can automatically encourage, aggregate, promote, and track consumer-generated multimedia online event buzz.
H3 2006 would become the first Philippine event to use a unique social media tag. Considering their online initiatives, I’m sure Eric’s bosses would applaud such innovation. May I suggest H32006.
Update, 90 minutes later: ACPI’s Joy Bacon, who has an anime convention across town on the same day, just called. I’m sending her code snippets to autoaggregate media tagged Toeinty.
