Social Media and Social Good

How to Grow a Community – the Reddit Way Community Management would be nothing without actual community members to manage. When I think of an ideal and great community, the first thing that comes to mind is Reddit. It’s diverse, no censorship. Everyone just have a sub-Reddit where they feel like they belong. It’s a hyperactive community where the content is generated heavily by the community. How Did Reddit Grow…

Every week, we will be featuring the best top bloggers from the Philippines, US, UK, Canada and around the world. For this week’s Featured Blogger, we caught up with Airra Pingol. She’s a Coffee Lover, Impulsive Shopper, Fashion Junkie, Queenbee, dancer and a blogger with an attitude and a Segment Producer for a local TV Network, ABS-CBN. 1. Tell us about yourself and what do you blog about (niche). Hello. Everyone calls me Airra, I’m…

IDK What Has Gotten Into You LinkedIn Guess this week has been the time for the Big Three‘s updates. Facebook updated its total friends count, Twitter now shows the actual or exact retweets and favorites count. Hoping LinkedIn will fix its Connections count too (showing the total connections instead of just 500+), it made the most lame update instead. Just a few minutes ago, I received an email from LinkedIn which says…

How are Are We Influenced Through the Social Media? Consumers trust recommendations from peers from over all forms of advertising but content really spreads 5 to 1 on Twitter and 9 to 1 on Facebook. It makes sense because Facebook is a social network where ties are usually closer (relatives, colleagues, family) than that connections made on Twitter (fellow networkers, marketers, curators, celebrity, etc). These are several ways of looking…

Major Cities in the Philippines to Join the Global Social Media Day 2012 Inspired by the Social Media Day spearheaded by Mashable.com, major cities in the Philippines will celebrate the connected generation around the world. It’s a giant eyeball for the social media practitioners and enthusiasts in the Philippines. There will be two celebrations in two different venues in Manila: Makati and Quezon City. One is organized by Tweetup Manila which…