Web 2.0, Social Media, and the Generation Y

Three excellent Slides were published over at SlideShare. It talks about hot to market to the Gen Y, what is Social Media, and how to do marketing the Web 2.0 way.

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How to Generate StumbleUpon Traffic to Your Site

A lot of articles have been published over the net about StumbleUpon traffic, and all of them agree on one thing; Digg traffic is nothing compared to StumbleUpon. I haven’t been a witness of that but the data they’ve gathered and the observations they were pointing out all make sense. StumbleUpon traffic lasts longer. StumbleUpon visitors browse more. StumbleUpon traffic has more potential to be converted into subscribers and more backlinks. Of course, how this traffic will react depends on how you present your content and appearance to them. The less crappy your content the more it will be appreciated, a given fact for every social media sites out there.

I think StumbleUpon presents a better platform for bloggers to market their content effectively without being too brutal about it like in Digg. I mean, if you want some good results from Digg, you have to spoon feed all your friends with requests to digg your submission before you can get it. In StumbleUpon, I think it doesn’t work too much like that. Also, SEO articles considered spam in Digg are well received and praised in StumbleUpon. To better understand what I’m talking about, we need to make a certain perspective on how StumbleUpon’s system works. After reading several resources about StumbleUpon, I came up with these:

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Win a Freeway Outfit

Fan of Freeway apparel store? Well then, you might want to check out StealThatLook.com on how you would Win a Freeway Outfit! All you have to do is simply email your answer to the question “What is your ultimate back-to-school must-have?” It’s easy and FREE to do so what are you waiting for?

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3rd Philippine Graphic Fiction Awards – Fully Booked

Are you a good storyteller? If you are then 3rd Philippine Graphic Fiction Awards by Fully Booked is just the contest for you. Tell your story in different mediums, may it be through comics, prose fiction or short film. Release the storyteller in you and your story might just get published by Fully Booked with a foreword by Neil Gaiman.

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Cebu Blog Contest

Alright! This is something that we Cebuano bloggers should really be enthusiastic about. Not only will we be promoting Cebu, we will also have a shot at winning some excellent prizes. The contest will run from July 16th, that’s today people! So I really apologize for not getting this up on my blog right away. This is actually the only time I can update my blog. Trust me, after the hectic day that I went through yesterday, and the hectic shift that I went through also, it’s a miracle I’m still up and not snoring on my cot right now. Yes, I said cot. Saying bed is so, umm, I don’t know. P

Anyway, read up on the mechanics:

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What toys and action figures do you have?

Yes, I still collect toys and action figures, because as a child, I only had Barbies. I don’t like Barbies. I wanted G.I. Joes and X-men action figures. Check out my first collection.

World of Warcraft action figures. I only have 4, Series 2 just came out. I was clueless about it until I saw it on the shelf of the local toy store.
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The Dark Knight Philippines pre release screening and my review

I’ll just blog about my comments and also reaction when we watched the pre release screening of the movie “The Dark Knight” in Rockwell Powerplant mall last night, and don’t worry I won’t post anything that will spoil you.. this entry is Spoiler free.

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WordPress 2.6 is now available, a month ahead schedule

That’s right! Here’s what Matt announced at the Wordpress blog:

“I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.” -Matt

Watch a brief video tour of WP 2.6 at Tech Blog Philippines (TechBlog.ph)

Ayala Center Davao

The Ayalas of famed Makati are finally coming back to Davao.

Executives of Ayala Land briefed the City Council yesterday on its plans to put up a mixed-used commercial center infront of Redemptorist Church in Bajada on a 9.5 hectare property owned by the Floirendos. Yes the banana magnate.

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Manny Pacquiao running again

In boxing, my Guardian bro, Manny Pacquiao has moved in different weight classes to chase his dream for glory. He now has four belts, the most by any Asian, and he is also considered as the best boxer around pound-for-pound.

He was, unfortunately, KOed in his first political match in General Santos City last year. But now, he plans to make a political comeback and adopt his boxing strategy of moving. This time, moving from one place to another.

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